Historically speaking, this is the logic of Mobutu, Pinochet and Somoza, both the strongmen and their US backers. https://twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/1345790752929050624 …
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Authoritarian strongmen also radicalized their opponents, and the bipolar logic of the cold war quite often drove nationalist leaders into the arms of the Soviet Union.
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Not to mention poison the reputation of western liberal democracy in countries where, because of cold war politics, that phrase had always actually mean 'authoritarian-right tyranny.' Authoritarians are bad! Yes, even those ones!
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If democracy is to be defended, it must be by (lowercase) democrats, not by trying to play two evils against the middle. It remains as always the case that the lovers of freedom must 'all hang together' or 'most assuredly...hang separately.'
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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