It’s absolutely not true either. Just because an authoritarian has the power to act “quickly”, you think that they will always act in the right way to handle a crisis? An authoritarian will act in any way they themselves see fit to “handle” a crisis, without any or much need for approval.

Do you think that the Roman empire always acted in the correct way to handle the problems it faced, even when the imperator had full control over the senate? This is only true if you define “effective” as “authoritarian”, like Russia seems to do here.

I’m from the country side and I very much like easy access to nature, but New York is a great city, especially with all the parks! The subway is bomb