The best way to explain how someone as incompetent as Zaslav has acquired and retains so much power, just think of him as a warlord who has managed to vanquish his foes in a sovereign nation's byzantine political system, a nation around which a border of law and social norms insulates all others from penetrating.

He won the war and it doesn't matter that he sucks for him to stay in power.

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