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Where "better" = "worse."

Then again, they've had more time to prepare. And Russia and China have been helping them more than, say, Maduro. Closer, more important. And more authoritarian in more Russian and Chinese ways--less brute force and more multifaceted psychological buy-in and manipulation. Mix religion and economics and nationalism and romanticized imperial ambition with totalitarianism, it's easier than just calling on socialism as a rallying call with the negative solidarity of "be anti-imperialist ... side with us as we try to retake Guyana, side with Russia, and let's hear it for the PRC's consolidation of its empire's territory and addition of more!" At least Iran's message was consistent.