Patronage systems, Authoritarian Spaces, Conformity
16 min readApr 26, 2024
Why This Is Needed
We humans tend to watch events through what is familiar to us. It’s easy to look at both through a Western American lens when watching Russia and now the Middle East. It is what is utterly familiar to us. It comes with inherent blind spots. We all tend to default our analysis through lived experience or societal expectations. I admit that my…