“We sent them guns to the protesters, a lot of them," Trump said in a telephone interview [with Fox News]. “We sent them through the Kurds. They kept them, so we sent more to the protesters, a lot of them."
“We sent them guns to the protesters, a lot of them," Trump said in a telephone interview [with Fox News]. “We sent them through the Kurds. They kept them, so we sent more to the protesters, a lot of them."
Because people would never protest against a religious dictatorship of their own volition.
People didn’t protest because they were in a religious dictatorship. People protested because the regime had totally fucked up the economy.
E.g.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZSBOAG7OiA
That’s what dictatorships eventually do most of the time, yes.
Singapore and China being notable exceptions. And few fuck up as badly as Iran.
China’s had pretty bad periods too. Ironically, capitalism is what lifted them out of poverty, they just did it slightly smarter than most. Their size also means they can just ignore things like IP without getting sued, which was great for them when they were still playing catch up when it comes to technology.
Basically it’s the planned economy that makes things very hard to get right. China realized that, which is why they regulate the economy less than the soviet union for an example.
Not too up to date on Singapore so I can’t really comment on that. But I think they also keep a fairly liberal economy?
Before Deng, China was pretty bad, absolutely. I am no fan of dictatorships, but economically China since then has been pretty dang smart. They have bet long term on all the right techs. Look at e.g. batteries, electric cars, and solar cells right now.
With the very notable exception of their coming population crash and aging crisis. But many democratic countries face that too.