• BabyWah@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    They’re only dictators in our minds, because the West has told us they are for years. I’ve always wondered what’s really behind their strategy, but we can’t get unbiased news about their countries and the people living there anymore.

    It’s really interesting to me because they are dictators, they’re also the only countries that managed to give the big finger to the US’ meddling and disrupting regional politics. Did they become dictators to stop that or is it a chicken and the egg situation? Need more info.

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        1 year ago

        Yes I’m not sure, only in the sense that I’ve seen what happens when you kill a dictator and try to replace it with ‘democracy.’

        Everyone swoops in, hires some armed forces to get the natural resources they need and then leaves. The population is left to fend themselves and are usually governed for decades by the stronger mostly extremist government party. By the time they revolt, they get beat down again and again, until they just give up and the country descends into another humanitarian crisis.

        It just sets them back for decades. That’s all.