⬆️ Any lessons to learn from the last 30-50 years of doing business with unrepenting revanchist imperialistic despots?
「Lagarde said, warning: "The time to think about how to respond to changing geopolitics is not when fragmentation is upon us, but before."」
Before, indeed, but... fragmentation??
It was unrestrained business and greed that *enabled* and *encouraged* the #CCP-#China (from 1970s) and #neoimperial #Russia (from 1990s) to build up their dictatorships and to become global threats.
Yeah, should've thought about "fragmentation" *before* creating those threats through boundless entanglement and dependencies on your despot buddies.
“Biding time, hiding strength” and “selling capitalists the rope with which to hang them” clearly never rang any bells.
#xijinping #putin #dictatorship #autocracy #WandelDurchHandel #HandelOhneWandel #appeasement #IMF #ECB #CFR #EU
@AdelinaMarini