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Letter: Let's turn the tables on Western collapse

Published 17 January 2024

From Ed Shields, Neebing, Ontario, Canada

Peter Turchin’s studies of social collapse may have relevance to the objectives and means of Russia and other states to enhance the collapse of some Western societies (9 December 2023, p 36). Can’t the West use history to expedite the fall of dangerous authoritarian regimes?

Issue no. 3474 published 20 January 2024

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