No, the problem here is that America does learn from our mistakes. We get better at things and our weakness is in assuming that they don’t need constant improvement. They do.
In Russia it is impossible to learn from mistakes because the act of pointing out a mistake is immediately labeled anti-Russian treason. Thus no one challenges the various orthodoxies of Russian institutions. People tend not to like getting shot thus they keep their silence.
See, you can’t learn from a mistake until you admit you made one.
Opps - now the US can point to mistakes, but only if they are not racist, sexist or other new LGBT SJW words of approbation. And we all know that certain areas are settled science and cannot be challenged.
#38 Never go into management in Russia or China or North Korea or any where there is a dictatorship.