Third Note to “Patrimonial States”

An informal network like Trump’s informal network and the informal network of neocons who came before Trump which then goes on to seize state power and can serve as an alternative to both of these aforementioned informal networks takes time to develop if it ever develops at all! What if it never develops? Thus, and as we said before, the results or outcomes of state collapse and state failure are “contingent” rather than “predetermined” to borrow from the foremost experts on this particular subject of state collapse and state failure. No one knows for sure.