It was a dramatic start to the week in Russia.
On Monday morning, Vladimir Putin sacked his transport minister, Roman Starovoit.
By the afternoon Starovoit was dead; his body was discovered in a park on the edge of Moscow with a gunshot wound to the head. A pistol, allegedly, beside the body.
Investigators said they presumed the former minister had taken his own life.
China’s been running a similar racket for like 60 years now, and I don’t see that changing any time soon. Putin gets it. Trump is figuring it out.
Not exactly.
There were attempts after Mao to try to remove the threat of dictatorship from the government. The Politboro operated as a full committee until Xi consolidated power.
But, that’s what I’m saying…
We’ll see how that will go in the States. I just read a text about why there are so few pickpockets in USA, and someone mentioned that during the Paris Olympics people had tried pickpocketing spectators from USA, and got so frequently immediately beaten up by spontaneously formed mobs of Americans that the French police had to start actively intervening on the side of the pickpockets O.o
Not everyone on this planet is like the Chinese and Russians. But, we are about to see.
I hope you are right.