03-13-2022, 01:04 AM
When you make a deal with the Devil you play by those rules. Western capitalists had no reason to believe that anything beyond the pursuit of money had any meaning. So long as Putin, Xi and others behaved as they themselves would, they assumed a rationality that didn't actually exist.
Both Russia and China have ideals that only see capitalism as a means to an end - we don't even have that.
Both Russia and China have ideals that only see capitalism as a means to an end - we don't even have that.