[fr_freak]

Their system works on the basis of state-designated oligarchs who skim oil revenues and keep them abroad. And below that it seems like its more layers of organised crime, down to rural villages. And the plurality of the population seems to be either drunk or drugged.

Doesn't sound all that different than the USA these days, to be honest.

[buwaya]

Hehe.

There ARE differences. The US economy is not in the main supported by extraction industries wherein the state owns the resources. The US depends on the sweat of its peoples brows in privately held firms subject to market discipline. The US still survives by making stuff.

The proceeds of the US economy aren’t, in the main, invested abroad, but are recycled into (hopefully) productive domestic investments. Trump helped a lot with that BTW.

US crime, at least in value, is restricted to the top of society. The old American volk still exists, largely uncorrupted. The ways of American corruption are highly elitist.