So long as the US Republican Party functions as a vehicle for Donald Trump and his family to exert power and reap riches, it is, by definition, a criminal enterprise.

#StateCapture #DeepState

💸 A corruption scandal has toppled yet another Prosecutor General in #Ukraine.
📜 Anastasiia Kudlenko argues this offers Ukrainian society and international partners an opportunity to reinvigorate reforms aimed at dismantling #StateCapture in the system of law enforcement
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“As the effects of #overshoot worsen, the likelihood of #societalbreakdown increases.”

“…why govts in general do not want their publics to know about the nature or extent of collapse – b/e they, themselves, are deeply implicated in driving it.”

#climatecrisis #security #statecapture #auspol

“Outsiders tell us these lands are barren, but are they?” His village depends on the surrounding pastoral land. Remove that, and the entire agricultural system collapses.

#greencolonialism #statecapture #justice #Himalaya

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Chipkin at #Statecapture2026 points out that an interesting natural experiment is developing in the IR sphere: there is a deep divergence between countries in the Global North that backsliding toward #statecapture, and countries in the post-colonial, post-socialist world making headway against it.

Ivor Chipkin argues that inter-elite competition can play a crucial role in interrupting #statecapture. But an elite bargain is essential to a sustained pushback against it. #Statecraft2026 Reforming institutions to close the loopholes that allowed state capture is also essential.

Daniel Kaufmann ex @brookings.edu at #statecraft2026 argues that while the USA is not yet completely captured it is on a steady trajectory to broad based #statecapture. Central here is not only the subversion of institutions but the capture of narratives and of the international system.

Dušan Pavlović at #Statecraft2026: #Serbia is another example of a place where #statecapture is driven, not by firms but by politicians intent on extracting public resources not only for private gain but also to serve political projects and political machines.

Bálint Madlovics describes Orban's #statecapture: in Hungary state capture was not 'bottom up'; it was executed by holders of power within the state itself.

Ivor Chipkin at #Statecraft2026: what is the difference between #corruption and #statecapture? State capture is an elite project. In other words, state capture is self-righteous: it tries to redefine its subversion as legitimate.

Ivor Chipkin argues that much of the crisis of statecraft in South Africa over the last 20 years, including #statecapture, lies in the failure to recognise that administration not a discretionary but a constitutive sphere of the state. #Statecraft2026

#statecapture

#auspol #climatedisasters #statecapture #corporatetyranny