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PortTack

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1. Two flailing countries...might just as well be leaderless

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Tue Oct 17, 2023, 02:42 AM

Oct 2023

Two dictators hungry for power, always working to consolidate their power and failing to do anything that might help keep them in power.
China in a disastrous financial mess on the brink of collapse
Russia with its lust for endless war serving up its remaining young men that might help salvage the country.

The two countries are in for decades of regression and pain

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Two flailing countries...might just as well be leaderless PortTack Oct 2023 #1