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The Importance of Tradeoffs in the Russian Military
The more you amp up those generals, delegates them, do all the things that make them an effective fighting force, the more they get bastions of power. That's where the cracks in the regime start to show. So dictators are basically people who are constantly living in fear and always taking actions that decrease one form of risk to them and necessarily increase anotherform.