[Do you apply this assessment to China also?]
China has been bootstrapped into rapid development by the efforts of its relentlessly enterprising private businessmen. If the Communist Party, with its exercises of arbitrary power and unchecked corruption, were removed from power, China’s growth would skyrocket. We are fortunate that the Communist Party remains dominant, just as we are fortunate that Putin remains in power. It is this incompetence that will shackle the territorial ambitions (driven by many centuries of tradition) of their political leaders, by limiting the resources with which they can achieve those ambitions.
Good assessment that I apply to America and the chains of the Democrat Party. I dream of a day where Communism/Socialism and totalitarianism finally dies and Capitalism can flourish.
Yes I agree. Yet somehow due to America being so nice and Trump being a great leader, we end up inadvertently helping average Chinese, Iranian, and Russian people in the long run by taking their governments to task. Making America great ends up making the world great...
But not overnight.
And the people in those countries are responsible for where they ended up too — not just their governments. They willingly compromised their freedoms and submitted to the whims of the State in exchange for immediate material perks and feelings of imperial dominance etc...