Re:Economic costs of war
by spoonjim on Monday August 16, 2021 @11:25PM
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Exactly. Basketcase governments are products of basketcase societies. Go in and topple the government and you now have the impossible task of developing a sustainable high quality government on top of a low quality society/culture.
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Agreed.
It's the same for Russia or Ukraine as it is for Afghanistan or Libya. These people have been under a totally different form of government where they had very little agency. The hubris of thinking, yeah, the CPSU (or Bath, etc.) is dissolved, democracy will take over, it's people's destiny!
When you've known nothing of democracy, it's a foreign concept. You need the culture around democracy to form for it to be successful.