This thing conveniently forgets that the Russian democracy was aborted when the US bought Yeltsin. Also, China was never a western style democracy, the political system of the US, Hungary, Turkey, China and Russia are hardly comparable.https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/1048785226376392704 …
Yes, I do. Historically, democracies have never been stable for much more than a couple hundred years, and it is not clear that this time, it is going to be different.
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Do you suggest that the US looks long term stable to you, or that the interventions of the US since WW2 tend to turn dictatorships into democracies rather than the other way around?
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