In this geopolitical Weimar, while monarchical rule, aside from the Arabian Peninsula with its kings and sultans and emirs, has faded into near-oblivion, the legacy of totalitarianism, especially Communism, remains both overbearing and deadening, contributing to our underlying instability. China and North Korea are still officially Communist societies, while three-quarters of a century of Communism, including decades of Stalinism, have exacted enough civilizational damage in Russia to have left its imprint on Vladimir Putin’s murderous rule. Totalitarianism, which essentially means that no
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