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> It is gross oversimplification

It is not an oversimplification, it is how it is.

When even secret police officers have to make a soup of their boots, it is.

> When risk coming from asset freeze becomes larger than risk from change in government - system will start to transform.

When the system will start to transform, he will get a bayonet in his pooper.

> That doesn't work that way. It's actually opposite - wealth is often spread among many loyal figureheads, with actual beneficiary holding nothing on his name.

This works this way. All corrupt heads of Ex-Union countries hold personal accounts on a very tight leash. Maybe with few figurehead titleholders, but not how you tell us.

Internet banking has made things much simpler for them.

> Probably even further, as it's basically democracy corrupted to the point of switching to new aggregate state.

It is not a democracy, plainly and simple.

If you think you have an "alternative vision," tell us how you will call this: https://gdb.rferl.org/47AAAE02-01C2-46FF-87F6-5607ECF3427C_w...

No alternative "visions," and interpretations from high nosed "political scientists" needed.

Call things their their names.



>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.




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