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Do Not Miss This Historic Chance ! Shared Characteristics of Petrocracies The Optimal Political System A U.S. Victory in Asia Petrocratic dictatorships share similar characteristics. In modern Russia, there exist influential, regime-loyal political forces that serve as a “quasi-opposition”. First and foremost, these comprise business communities — specifically those unconnected to the extraction and export of natural resources, or to the production of weapons and ammunition. They also include the overwhelming majority of the humanitarian intelligentsia, as well as scientific and technocratic communities. These social strata believe that the only viable alternative to the current Kremlin dictatorship is Western social-liberal democracy. However, since the late 20th century, Western democratic civilization has acquired fundamental flaws: economic weakness, political impotence, and social malaise — 7iskusstv.com/?p=127876 The West is rapidly aging, weakening, and dying ...