ColtWalker1847
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- Dec 20, 2017
Belarus' government is the mob. It functions as essentially a state-level protection racket.>Belarus, on the other hand, had no such assistance
And there you go. You've got two groups of people with basically the same circumstances. One is taking kickbacks from the mob and the other isn't.
Is this some kinda BreadTube late-stage-capitalism magic 8-ball prediction or something? Because I have news, Russia and it's client states have economically collapsed into their assholes within our lifetimes (complete with children selling blowjobs on the streets of Moscow for drug money) and only the ones that split to the west learned their lesson about the extractive political institutions that caused it.>But it is way WAY worse over there
It's not "WAY" worse right now, though it is worse. Particular emphasis on the "right now" part. When the Weimar economy eventually collapsed, it was not the political class that had to whore their underaged daughters out to sex tourists in Berlin in order to put food on the table.