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To: skinowski who wrote (763660)	6/7/2022 5:28:25 PM
From: TimF	2 Recommendations Recommended By lightshipsailor skinowski Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793689

Absolute dictator is a relative term. No dictator is really absolute. They are people not gods and they don't know everything they need people (at least key underlings) to support them and they always could be betrayed or undermined or worked around. However even nothing that point, I wouldn't categorize Putin as an absolute dictator, just a dictator. He would be hard to remove, but not impossible if enough of the key people decided to do that. Absolute is more about power welded while in power than it is about ability to remove them, but he's not an absolute dictator on that issue either unless your playing loose with your definitions of absolute. So I guess we agree here. These days, wealth and power are no longer in land and plunder - it’s in doing business together. Inventiveness + industriousness. That's the way it should be, and more often than not the way it is, but unfortunately it sometimes isn't. And there is some concern, even before Ukraine, that it it might be that way less often or to a lesser extent in the future (although likely still less so then during the height of the cold war, much less WWI and WWII).