"There are lots of pros to being a dictator, no doubt—as Mel Brooks said, 'It’s good to be the king!'—but there are some cons, too: not least the fact that strongmen are constantly worried that someone will go Macbeth on them."
gregolear.substack.com/p/et-tu-vp
Saddam and Gadaffi died but they died old and with lots of children and grandchildren. Putin has outlived Russian males by decades and has had a lot of fun doing it. Kadyrov is living his best life as a don don moron. Lukashenko could have died a drunk farm manager.
