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Only if "democracy" is defined as "us and our pets" and "autocracy" is defined as "countries that we do not like".

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People are realizing that forever wars have never been about democracy but about feeding the war machine which greases our imperial/capitalistic system. Democracy is not our system post Roosevelt's New Deal politics; war is driving our economy and social media and tech oligarchs driving our politics. That the New World Order.

- Kill all those that oppose.

- Reward the rich.

- Feed just enough crumbs to social programs to maintain the system order.

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Biden's first priority after October 7 was to reaffirm in the strongest possible way his total commitment to Israel and complete support for whatever it wanted to do. If that isn't blindly ideological, I don't know what is.

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When I ponder the appreciation of history, context and continuity that Lavrov and Yi bring to their diplomatic engagement, I see the weakness of our musical chairs in the State Department. Certainly, the lack of continuity and true diplomatic competence is costing us and the world dearly these days.

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