Re:Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', op...
by saba2008 on Sunday May 23, 2021 @06:46PM
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>even secret police officers have to make a soup of their boots
So what are Usmanov, Prokhorov, Potanin, etc? Are they oppressed opposition, or are they eating boots too?
>bayonet in his pooper
While executions of government officials would be extremely entertaining and spirit raising sight, such revolutionary events will lead to much worse outcome in long term than reformation.
>All corrupt heads of Ex-Union countries hold personal accounts on a very tight leash
Ex-Union countries are very different. Claim that corrupt heads of 6M people/43G$ GDP Turkmenistan and 145M/4328G$ Russia are identical is a strong one. Other than size of economy, they are different in that most of them became authoritarian states right after gaining independence, while Russia had about decade of mostly working democracy.
>this
Elections. Corrupted to the point of uselessness, but they are still run, as government derives it's legitimacy from them, rather than from leader's charisma or ideology.
>Call things their their names
Sometimes it makes sense to distinguish between kinds of shit. Especially if shit is only material you have.
So what are Usmanov, Prokhorov, Potanin, etc? Are they oppressed opposition, or are they eating boots too?
>bayonet in his pooper
While executions of government officials would be extremely entertaining and spirit raising sight, such revolutionary events will lead to much worse outcome in long term than reformation.
>All corrupt heads of Ex-Union countries hold personal accounts on a very tight leash
Ex-Union countries are very different. Claim that corrupt heads of 6M people/43G$ GDP Turkmenistan and 145M/4328G$ Russia are identical is a strong one. Other than size of economy, they are different in that most of them became authoritarian states right after gaining independence, while Russia had about decade of mostly working democracy.
>this
Elections. Corrupted to the point of uselessness, but they are still run, as government derives it's legitimacy from them, rather than from leader's charisma or ideology.
>Call things their their names
Sometimes it makes sense to distinguish between kinds of shit. Especially if shit is only material you have.