He’s not dumb. He’s got a mathematical mind, but his mentality is pretty Soviet. He has this silly idea of fairness. If someone makes a lot of money, then you have to take it away. It’s a bit like China for my tastes,” a former senior Kremlin official said.
This reads like bad parody or satire.
It’s a bit like China for my tastes
That would indeed be bad. Because we all know how the modern Russian Federation absolutely dwarfs the People’s Republic economically.
When the war becomes less about the battlefield tactics and more about who has the most stuff to throw at their opponent, why not have an economist who’s pretty cool with the state spending money to make things?
Who the fuck do you want running defense? An unqualified elected official? A technocrat who completely disagrees with the current strategy? Like who the fuck runs defense in the USA if not pliant technocrats?!
Furthermore it’s financial times literally who the fuck cares what they have to say?
Shoulda gone in shitreactionariessay
also it’s behind a paywall
Paywalled.
