Man, I hate how regime is just Western for "government we don't like" now. Western word games exhaust me. 🫩

Paywall.

But based on the first sentence, the "Economic Success"

1. Only goes to the regime, not the people.
2. Partly comes from being unethical enough to sell arms to Russia.
3. Partly comes from, essentially, payoffs from China for being a buffer state to the west.