• vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    That’s not about just O, T and E etc really.

    It’s about the average Westerner just loving to blabber about realpolitik and subjective interests on the subject of enabling richer and stronger cannibals against poorer and weaker humans.

    And also about democratic countries having no immunity against foreign states buying their politicians and officials and the general population not really caring.

    Jailing for life a few people who’ve been paid by Qatar, Azerbaijan, Russia, Israel etc would do wonders as an example to the rest.

    Bombing their infrastructures when they start wars would also be nice. Most don’t have WMD. Not for the realpolitikers, of course, that would have negative strategic and economical effect, but if your goal is preserving democracy and civilization, then there are plenty of places to be bombed right now without dancing all the quadrilles.

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      1 year ago

      Maybe democracy doesn’t work when you keep trying to prop up genocide, huh?

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        1 year ago

        Democracy for which genocide is fine (and even good) as long as it’s not threatening its citizens - yes, that won’t work. Because those helping it inside will get their benefits from those doing it outside, thus depending less on any democratic mechanisms.