“So this is the thing about authoritarian regimes. They’re terrible at everything. They can’t feed their people. They can’t provide security for their people … they only have to be good at one thing to survive. The suppression of alternatives. If they can deny political alternatives, if they can force all opposition into exile or prison, they can survive no matter how incompetent, no matter how corrupt, no matter how terrible they are.”
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“We have to fight” – BB
“Today, the people of our planet may gain a lot of facts, but do not have much insight.”
Secretary Blinken answers: Would anyone in Russia stop Putin if he wanted to use nukes?
“… the Achilles Heel of autocracies anywhere. There is usually not anyone who has the capacity or the will to speak truth to power. And part of the reason I think Russia has gotten itself into the mess that’s it’s in is because there is no one in the system to effectively tell Putin he is doing the wrong thing.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/secretary-of-state-antony-blinken-vladimir-putin-60-minutes-2022-09-25/
Zakaria explains what Putin’s nuclear threat tells us about him
Why Fareed Zakaria doesn’t think Putin’s strategy will work
Fareed’s take: The West risks failure in Ukraine
“The world is in more peril from those who tolerate evil or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.” – Albert Einstein
#AIS: Palmer Luckey on Anduril
Fareed’s Take: Russia is key to America’s China strategy
Very tough times ahead
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