The reality is Russia is what you get if you buy into anarcho-capitalism. The dictator becomes the guy who owns the most powerful security force.

When you dismantle democratic institutions, regulatory guardrails, and legitimate constraints on power, the vacuum doesn’t lead to utopian freedom—it leads to feudalism. The “dictator” simply becomes the oligarch who owns the biggest private army.

It’s the cruel irony of libertarian idealism: when government retreats, violence fills the void. Russia didn’t end up with maximal freedom; it ended up with warlord capitalism—a Hobbesian state where rights and liberties are commodities traded among the powerful.