Comments by "Fredrik Dunge" (@DaDunge) on "Putin wants unlimited presidential terms" video.

@eldermoose7938 Of course the class struggle can't be ignored in that, Sulla's reforms while they turned Rome back into a republic they also put the boot of the nobiles back on the throat of the people after people like Marius had forced it to give way somewhat. Caesar didn't seize power for the sake of seizing power, he did it because he grew up in a poor part of Rome and saw first hand what Rome was like for the poor, and he understood perfectly well what restoring the old order would mean for those people.
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@zoomorrow Because Gradual is this case means it takes more than a lifetime. Ten years is not a gradual change when it comes to a political reform. And it doesn't matter if a powerhungry successor is unpopular if they just buy of the army leadership, which they can do because Russia is a resource economy.
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Yeah no autocrat in history has ever tried that trick before. Oh wait they have, it almost never works.
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@zoomorrow Well of course if it never worked then we'd have no democracies. But I don't buy that Putin will be an exception. The cases where it did work is those where the transition was gradual, where the old power and the new power shared power, often over several generations. Putin has been extending his power for most of his reign an all the while people under him have been thinking "That could be me", and they won't give up those ambitions just because Putin wants to transition to a more democratic system.
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@zoomorrow You presented a wall of text with no paragraphs, which leaves me with no social obligation to read more then the first two and the last two sentences.
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@Subject82 Of course he did, he put the interests of the people bribing him over the interests of the people he was elected to represent. That is stealing from the latter.
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Democracy is a habit, if you don't have it getting it is not nearly as easy as making a few law changes.
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8:30 Well if Russia needs money we are willing to pay good money for Kaliningrad. Not to be annexed to any one country but to be made an independent state under the administration of the EU.
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@АлександрЖук-г3ф Its about what I expect from Anglais.
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@zoomorrow Yes yours is.
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@elgqr Depends on your definition of poor. He grew up in a middle class neighbourhood which is dirt poor for someone of senatorial rank.
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@elgqr And incredibly ancient family that had gradually fallen on hard times.
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@Subject82 A good man who's stolen enough from the Russian people to be the 8th richest man in the world and has a golden toilet brush for his golden toilet?
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3:00 They are shooting themselves in the foot by doing this, the longer someone is in power the worse the chaos once that person leaves power. Also it is always best for a ruler to give up power while he is still able, so that if there is a crisis he can return to power to solve it. That way his successor get to take power with sort of the training wheels on.
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