Chris Doss writes (with related points from Daniel Davies and Ulhas Joglekar) :
--- Paul wrote: Is there any common cause with any of today's 3rd world
economic\political elite
(Malaysians? Brazilians? Koreans? Russians? Vietnamese?)?
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Russia is not a 3rd world country.
Point taken. And of
--- Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I
imagine
Chris Doss finds that his difficulties explaining
Putin to others on
this
list relates to this point - no? And, of course, all
of us are caught
in
terrible conflicting priorities when it comes to
events in the Middle
East.
Paul
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I think that, in
Chris D. writes:... Putin considers the market
economy as something that should serve the state --
capital is a handmaiden of the state, not vice versa.
Business exists in order to fill the federal treasury.
This is a very non-Western view, ...
this was a Western view under Mercantilism. And it
--- Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
this was a Western view under Mercantilism. And it
worked for South
Korea, didn't it?
jim devine
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I think there is still a possibility that Russia will
move in a South Korean chaebol-like direction. That
seems to have been the original strategy
