Comment by paganel

> Lots of members with veto powers and the like.

Similar to the Political Bureau in former communist countries, but still an autocracy.

> But I wouldn't call it an autocracy.

It has most certainly started to walk and quack a lot like an autocratic duck, it wasn't the case 10 to 15 years ago, or not as visible, to say the least, but the pandemic and this recent war in Ukraine have changed that.