You and I agree strongly regarding decentralization. We also agree that government is based on theft, as far as I can grasp from your comment. As to geopolitics, I'm not sure that the support you point out is ideological rather than realpolitik in nature. Russia has enemies, and those enemies also support particular governments I am sure we also will agree aren't shining examples of virtue.

That means Russia needs friends, and there's a very real truth to the old adage 'The enemy of my enemy is my friend.' Not sure such necessities imply that Russia is Communist and won't invest money in Steem - or anything else.

China is actually Communist and they do plenty of investing. BTW, if you're calling me a Socialist, you could not be further from the truth. Phyllis Schlafly of the Eagle Forum once spoke with me on political matters and called me an ultraconservative. She was wrong too, because I'm an anarchist and reckon that people actually are sovereign.

Most of them just abdicate the actual power to the first thugs that come along and demand obedience. I won't.