David Frum

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The answer: An authoritarian regime can for sure achieve financial independence if it's willing to seal itself off from the world. Stalin's USSR, Mao's China were more or less invulnerable to central bank sanctions. They were also desperately poor and horrifically repressive 3/x — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 27, 2022

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The answer: This is easily said - and often threatened - but not so easy to do. 3/x — PolitiTweet.org

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The trouble for an authoritarian regime comes when it seeks the benefits of at least a partially market economy and at least some economic integration with the rest of the world. 4/x — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 27, 2022