(March 3, 2024 at 4:06 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: Authoritarian governments tend to gain power on the back of a popular sense of vulnerability, if the sense derive from direct or indirect foreign vulnerability, or from a sense that the future requires acting independently or against some elite or cabal of privileged international players, then the show of military strength is a natural resort.
Again, I’m not saying ONLY authoritarian regimes do that, just that a show of military hardware isn’t enough to label a particular regime as authoritarian.
Boru
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