• cøre@leminal.space
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      13 days ago

      Sounds like America, except we also depend on war for our economy

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        12 days ago

        Putin’s kleptocracy didn’t succeed (never had the intention either, as for any kleptocracy) in creating or facilitating of any high tech company with a global reach - like IBM, Apple, Intel, Microsoft, Amazon etc.

        Instead, Putin has been destroying businesses: Yukos (an independent oil company, though) or, more recently, effectively expropriated Yandex or VK. The founders of these businesses had to leave (flee) the country too.