13454440, But it's not about democracy or free markets.
Posted by Buddy_Gilapagos, Thu Feb-24-22 04:06 PM
Back to my original point, it has always been about containing certain spheres of influence.
We need to get out of the geo-political framing of Democracy/free market v. Communism/Authoritarians.
We can look back at the Cold War and where these countries are today and its clear that its not about political or economic philosophies. The Chinese and Russia love Capitalism. It's about geopolitical spheres of influence. Its the US & Western Europe Aligned Countries and Russia OR Chinese aligned countries.
When we start talking about fighting for democracy anywhere in the world then you start to sound like NeoCons.
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