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Re:The curious case of Russia's missing Air Force by afarrell on Monday March 14, 2022 @05:18AM (#30670134)
> A small dictatorship of NK can be controlled by a handful of people

This is an interesting observation because it is the opposite of Alexis de Tocqueville‘s observation that democracy was well-suited to small states like Athens and Britain but large states like Russia needed autocracy.

Re:The curious case of Russia's missing Air Force by jjtheblunt on Monday March 14, 2022 @02:21PM (#30676033)
i wonder if the distinction is that, beyond some size, it needs to be recursive?