It's just a more grotesque, hyperbolic version of a system that's not working. I think, actually, like, when you look at how, for example, Putin has operated in Russia and the way they've been able to kind of take things over in these oligarchies, these kleptocracies. they prey on that exact logic, on that exact predicate, which is that everyone's corrupt, and it's all corrupt, and so who gives a fuck? Sorry. Yes. (15:20–15:31)
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Asserts that Putin's governance in Russia involves oligarchies and kleptocracies.
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