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| Thread ID: 150682 | 2022-05-21 07:01:00 | What the War in Ukraine Can Teach the US Government about Competition with China | zqwerty (97) | PC World Chat |
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| 1486345 | 2022-05-21 07:01:00 | Worth reading: "The only thing autocrats seem to excel at is manipulating public opinion. That’s how they get to be autocrats. Restricting the free flow of information then becomes essential to maintaining their authority. Autocrats generally can’t handle criticism or learn from failure. They tend to blame mistakes on subordinates who then stop telling the truth. Apparatchiks and sycophants administer everything. Initiative becomes impossible, creativity fades, and talent withers. Reprisal and punishment are the only reward for those who dare to identify problems. We’ve seen it many times in many societies." allthingsnuclear.org |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1486346 | 2022-05-21 21:46:00 | Good points, makes sense probably | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1486347 | 2022-05-21 22:26:00 | Russia is a good example of the quote above being accurate. | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1486348 | 2022-05-21 23:05:00 | . Autocrats generally can’t handle criticism or learn from failure . They tend to blame mistakes on subordinates who then stop telling the truth . Apparatchiks and sycophants administer everything . Reprisal and punishment are the only reward for those who dare to identify problems . Sounds like every single organisation of every single human group forever . Never mind leaders, companies, help groups, parties, whatever . Kissing up to the big man(or woman) and anyone who complains get ********s . |
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| 1486349 | 2022-07-19 06:18:00 | Not sure if this is relevant, but I'm certain you have heard of the Stasi, the secret police agency of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) and during the cold war in the brutal police state, the Stasi kept records of 18 million people in East Germany - and they were paper copies, not on computer. In the late 1980s things were changing and resistance was growing and among the Stasi officers trying desperately to maintain order was none other than the future Russian president, Vladimir Putin - head of the KGB branch office in Dresden - a premier KGB officer. Perhaps his training in the Stassi has something to do with his brutal take over in the Ukraine. |
Roscoe (6288) | ||
| 1486350 | 2022-07-19 07:03:00 | Yes I knew Putin was high up in the KGB before Yeltsin elevated him to President as his successor. | zqwerty (97) | ||
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