Hello Dmitry,
On Sunday July 28 2024 18:54, you wrote to me:
MV>> So why did you not vote him out when you still could?
DP> The only chance was in 2000,
I don't think that really was the last and only chance. However...
DP> but people were tired of inflation, the civil war in Chechnya, and an
DP> ill and drunk President Yeltsin, and they wanted someone "strong
DP> enough" to fix the country and show the world that "Mother Russia is
DP> great again."
So the people want a "strong leader" to solve the problems. And that is what
they get. Or so they think. What they don't realise is that what they get is a
leader that will use the power given to /stay/ in power. For as long as
possible. At all cost...
Putin isn't the only one. There is a world wide trend for elected leaders to
turn into autocrats. Xing Pi, Erdogan, Bouterse, Netanyahu, Orban, Maduro. And
maybe Trump and Wilders...
I just hope that in ten or twenty years the samen question will not be asked to
the people of The Netherlands... :(
Cheers, Michiel
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