Case in point - Bulgaria. Overstaffed state administration consisting of more than 400 thousand people spread throughout the whole country, for a population of 6.5m. All that staff are regular hard voters for the currently ruling party, in exchange for promises for pay increases and bonuses. There is also strong resistance to introducing any effective electronic governance because it might render these people unemployed, and that would also compromise the whole power structure.
We're neighbours and I understand. One thing to be mindful of though: we have to phase out state jobs slowly. Mostly waiting for the aging buraocrats to die. Doing it too fast means you have to support a lot of unemployment which strains the already weak economy.
This is not a phenomenon unique to Russia. What was in it for the United States to drop 108,000 tons of bombs over Cambodia? What is in it still for the US to continue having troops in Afghanistan?
Powerful countries have agendas. I cannot think of any entity that names itself a "country" that does not.
Not the same, and it’s plain to see. Russia publicly was (and still is) the friend and sustainer of every crackpot psychopathic dictator on the planet.
