Tag: argentina
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Gradualism is not a luxury. It is the only vaccine against the strongman. In the main essay, we traced the arc of Russia’s collapse in the 1990s – how shock therapy produced a national trauma, how a grievance‑fuelled strongman rose from that trauma, and how the cycle of confrontation has trapped both Russia and the…
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From the collapse of the Soviet Union to the post‑Hormuz world, a thirty‑year cycle of grievance and overreach has left both nations trapped. But the baseline of rational policy is still within reach. 1. The Missed Exit: 1990 The Soviet Union did not have to die as it did. In September 1990, the “Shatalin Plan”…