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Originally Posted by you&me
Sort of serious question - why are the Russians so bad at all of this?
Like, I'm not ignorant to the fact that there have been and are great Russian minds throughout history... Why on earth are there so many obvious ineptitudes on display through all of this? Like, the 3 SIM cards - that was laughable, but also believable as it could boil down to some idiot in the field... But things like this "assassination attempt" on the Kremlin... Who looks at that and thinks 'that's good enough to show the world' and who do they think they're fooling?
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I think it's as a result of decades of all decisions being made centrally rather than by the people closest to the actual situation. That and a deeply ingrained culture of fear, that if you don't exactly follow a direct order to the letter there will be severe consequences. I think those two reasons are primarily why the USSR failed and why any heavily centrally planned society is eventually doomed to file.