He emerged as top-dog warlord, through oil oligarchs into jail, and runs a terror state. He doesn’t need shitty ice rinks. He can coerce billionaires to do far more. It is a big mistake to judge people by the contexts in which they rose to power. Empires fall for such mistakes.
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Evaluating politicians on a metaphoric business competence scale. He may not make mailroom clerk as a businessman. But he isn’t in the business of business. Politics eats business for lunch when conflict sharpens. Just ask Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
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In the words of Frank Underwood, choosing money over power is a waste for the politically talented. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LYnnm3L12fA …
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Totally disagree. America could not even kick the Vietcong for sport. There’s a difference between having military muscle and a militarist mind. That weak little dog is currently holding a demented elephant at bay. When you lose your mind, your muscles don’t matter.
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