Thread: Putin's increasing police state and smth about some other countries

Interesting links, Lampada!
LKY (as they call him) took a country that was split along ethnic, religious and linguistic lines, had been exploited by colonialism and with hostile neighbours and made it rich in 25 years. I was there at their 25 year anniversary and regular people had good lives. It is a real success story and it's even better now. Interestingly there are lots of similarities between what I saw in Belarus and what Singapore is trying to do.
Build a nation where there was none before. Make people feel loyalty and be hardworking and law abiding...
Keep the streets clean and everything looking tidy etc.
Of course, LKY is more capitalist than Lukashenko, but both want to prevent their countries from being ripped off by foreign interests for any reason.

Singapore has a 0 tolerans for corruption and drugs.

Originally Posted by Hanna

Make people feel loyalty and be hardworking and law abiding...

That might sound cool while you're visiting the country as a tourist. But would you, personally, like to be made to work hard for almost no money and feel loyalty at the same time?

I think when you talk like this, you're showing a certain kind of disrespect to the citizens of the country you're talking about - like "you, the second-best, have to work hard and show no dissatisfaction about it so that I, a first class person, can enjoy visiting your country, that's what matters"...