Best to post this in the section: "Not" Cambodia", even if one could imagine similarities. Anyway, this is about Russia.
Both rulers do get a lot of support from regular folks as long as things are fairly stable, and look to be generally improving. Most, me too, don't focus blame on the top, because by now they don't need to get their hands dirty, most of that happens at much lower levels (and across the political spectrum, in so far as any spectrum exists). I wish there was a path out, to less mid-level thievery and stupidity, but unless there is an unlikely decision from the top, I can't see how it can happen. Did Singapore grow beyond, 'Our dear Leader'? Is Singapore all good now? Is that viable here, or, er, in Russia?
(From a NY Times Opinion article about Putin)
But corruption is the glue that holds the system together, not the catalyst to bring it down. Basing his power on the thievery of his subordinates, Mr. Putin’s goal was hardly to ensure their comfort and well-being. The point, more likely, was to bind the ruling class within a conspiratorial system of collective responsibility, ensuring its absolute solidarity. In this condition of complicity, no one could emerge to challenge the president.
Strictly speaking, it is not completely correct to call such a system corruption. Corruption entails a deviation from the norm, whereas in Mr. Putin’s Russia the norm is precisely that of officials living on money of dubious origin. If the law were to be followed literally, then practically every Russian minister or governor could end up in prison. In practice, though, Mr. Putin always applied the law selectively. Every time one of his influential subordinates found himself charged with corruption, the main question on people’s minds was about the hidden political reason for the arrest.
Not Corruption. Not here.
Funny, coming from a country run by BigPharma, the NRA and the MIC
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