It is going to be so funny when the conclusion of Democracy vs. Authoritarianism is that democracies can't stop engaging in extremely unpopular unnecessary wars on the othet side of thr planet, while the supreme leaders of centralised authoritarian stated seem to bend backwards to avoid wars even with their direct neighbours until they are cornered by internal politics or foreign existential threats.
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Genuine question; are you retarded?
There are numerous other democratic nations who aren’t warmongering like the US.
And one example of an Ayatollah allegedly aversed to war doesn’t ignore all the others of history’s past authoritarians who were bloodthirsty.
Well, you should combine "A, democratic nation that isn't warmongering" with "B, democratic nation that has the military strength to be likely to come out of war XY as (superficial) winner".
Skipping B makes the "statistic" almost meaningless.
Do you know about a guy named Putin??
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Yes, measure the distance between Moscow and Kiev and compare that with the distance between Washington and Tehran or Baghdad or Kabul or Hanoi.
Then compare the risk of Ukraine joining Nato and installing nuclear weapons their to the non existent risks in any of US wars of choices.
Russian and Iranian regimes are exceptionally brutal and criminal, we saw that in Syria. But we can't pretend they went to these wars for sports in the way neocons in the US do.
But this is not me defending authoritarian regimes, this is me being very frustrated about the failure of democracies.
I'm not comparing wars nor countries.
I'm just reacting to your sentence that screeched inside my ears:
"the supreme leaders of centralised authoritarian stated seem to bend backwards to avoid wars even with their direct neighbours"
So wrong, mate, so wrong.
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