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Viewer Mail—Ukraine Edition

GoodFellows: Conversations from the Hoover Institution

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Russia in the West

Most people in the country w would love to live in a lieral democracy. And they 're not going to letitll let it happen. The whole problem i liberal democracy doesn't start from a man at the top. Ideology is invented to justify power. Nobody in russian believes their ideology. They've had a hundred years now of mparting what they're supposed to say. Aand i've had the same thought. It is essentially facies, not communist. Its nationalist. Its croniest. John, so all wod disagree? Ah, i don't think there's a historical determinism that says russia or china have to be meek

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