This will always be a problem for authoritarian regimes. Doesn’t matter if Trump, Putin, Xi Jinping, Hitler etc. There will come a point at which people are to scared to speak the truth around them and it will affect how well they can run their countries. The fact that Putin’s war of aggression has taken him over 400 times longer than he expected is just one of many examples for this.
This will always be a problem for authoritarian regimes. Doesn’t matter if Trump, Putin, Xi Jinping, Hitler etc. There will come a point at which people are to scared to speak the truth around them and it will affect how well they can run their countries. The fact that Putin’s war of aggression has taken him over 400 times longer than he expected is just one of many examples for this.