Many in the Russian liberal opposition, which now operates mostly in exile, unquestioningly support Israel. This is not only due to their tendency to disregard institutionalised racism in Russia but also due to their embrace of a civilisational hierarchy narrative that places the white West at the top. Anti-Palestinian bias is a natural outcome of this worldview.
Thanks for the write up, I’m just unsure about this last part:
Which decisions could have achieved that? Nixon and Kissinger deciding to go to Moscow to make a deal and the USSR fueling the Walmart economy for the next decades instead of China? But than China wouldn’t be the same today.
This was actually a decent write up on it https://www.noemamag.com/how-china-avoided-soviet-style-collapse/
TLDR is that the big mistake that USSR made was to rush into privatization instead of using a measured approach that China used where they started introducing market mechanics in localized and controlled fashion.