Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @MaxBoot
.@TheEconomist in 1854 ascribed Russian military failures in the Crimean War to the “inadequacy of despotic power.” It noted pervasive “cheating, bribery, peculation” and no “regard for truth or integrity.” Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. https://t.co/TnOPM1JyP5 — PolitiTweet.org