Fun fact: National Endowment for Democracy was caught funding extreme-right French student paramilitary UNIhttp://www.apnewsarchive.com/1985/Agency-Suspends-Grant-To-Right-Wing-Student-Group/id-4a9114f4029ff45e886107f7fcbac509 …
@MarkAmesExiled @ckilpatrick Key question ignored in piece: why fund "democracy-promotion" in already democratic country.
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@HeerJeet@ckilpatrick leverage w/ Mitterrand if he got socialisty + useful to have army of local fascist thugs to terrorize leftwing labor -
@MarkAmesExiled@ckilpatrick That sounds right. The joke here was that Mitterand already abandoned any political principles long before - Show replies
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You are confusing "democracy" with a country governed by free elections. US definition of democracy abroad is pro-free market and pro-US.
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