Putin TRIED to Create a Homegrown Tech Industry. His Failure Could Be Key to Russian Defeat

Though the Putin regime has pressured local governments and manufacturing firms to develop domestic technologies as substitutes, this ‘import substitution is 95% PR’…

 

 

Galeev’s theory is that a ‘mafia state’ like Russia is unable to foster complex domestic manufacturing industries because such states select officials not for technical competence, but for the ability to inspire fear in opponents and for their loyalty to the leader…

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