Spies isn’t everything: Putin’s global-chaos machine
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Aggression, election-meddling, “psychological destabilisation”: Russia’s leader is sowing chaos like never before. We ask what power the West has left to curtail it. As entitlements such as pensions have unceasingly grown, rich governments have become inefficient, lumbering beasts. One uncomfortable but clean fix is raising taxes (10:26). And Britain’s swish new offerings attempt to dethrone the revered baked bean (18:10).
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| 1:12.4 | I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 1:17.2 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:27.2 | Rich world governments just keep getting bigger, dealing with more and more safety net programs. Like any sprawling institution, |
| 1:29.3 | that means they've been getting less efficient. How to avoid a doom loop for these lumbering |
| 1:35.0 | leviathens. And beans, beans, good for your heart. The British seem to know this better than most. |
| 1:43.5 | The baked bean is a cultural institution. |
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