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In Moscow's Shadows 99: All Hail the Tsar? Why Putinism has suffered from becoming monarchical
In Moscow's Shadows
The Importance of Self-Awareness
Putin had instruments that were already critically weakened even before he put them into a particularly sort of challenging position. The job of governance is just so complex so wrapped around the capacity to manage bureaucracies that I don't think Putin has really demonstrated the capacity to do that. So again the other limitation if you personalize power well by God the figure in whom more power is vested better be willing to put himself out in the name of maintaining that Putin does not. And the final element is again the symptom of the whole eye of Sauron factor that for example the Russian armed forces may have looked great tramping through Red Square but on the other hand clearly were nowhere near at the level of competence and efficiency
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