Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Orban, Xi and multipolar world. NATO neutralize Kaliningrad. GOP impeach Biden. Europe day" video.

@davidotness6199 That formerly destitute majority also threatens the CCP. If China takes a step backward, there are millions of educated people who're going to be angry/disillusioned. Russia is still authoritarian. Its advantage is the West keeping the threat level high enough to keep the Russian people more or less of one mind. Their democratic institutions are only skin deep, but for the time being, Putin has been highly competent and immensely popular. Very ruthless, some would say "as needed," but the vast majority have had their personal needle pointing up for most of Putin's presidency. A truly free America would swamp Russia in every way, economically, but the USA is busy cutting its own throat, experimenting VERY clumsily with top-down economics. It's creeping in, gradually, but the growth of agencies and the sheer volume of regulations amount to a pretty bad copy of planned economies once associated only with tyranny. Of course, they're STILL associated with tyranny, but the America people are slow to wake up to it because they, like the Chinese, have enjoyed economic prosperity for a pretty long time, now. When the top-down governments start failing, that's when they're in jeopardy. China's already got that figured out. The USA? Not so much.
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