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Diana van Eyk's avatar

Thanks for making sense of this historic moment. The geopolitical jigsaw puzzle is being pieced together, and hopefully this can be done peacefully.

Bijou's avatar
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".. defined by Western standards of democracy and market capitalism." — sure, but those ‘standards’ were not ‘market capitalism’ nor ‘democracy’ qua Marx or most classical economists, for which there are no monopolists and oligarchs. Not even remotely close to patriarch Athenian democracy. justsayin.

Stuart Finlay's avatar

Western Liberal Democracy being a cover for 'free trade', where countries are looted by the west for their resources and forced to take on unpayable debt, plus sanctions, regime-change, demonization etc. if you don't play the game.