> Democracy doesn't work in most middle east nations Democracy doesn't work in a lot of situations; this is not an inherent geographical attribute. > it doesn

> Democracy doesn't work in most middle east nations Democracy doesn't work in a lot of situations; this is not an inherent geographical attribute. > it doesn't work in Russia also Well, this has never been observed in Russia, so we'll never know. > Liberal democracy is not panacea for everything. Nobody claims this. But you can at least trust your neighbor not to turn you into the police because of due process. I'm that's not necessary in Russia because the government of course never commits human rights violations or makes mistakes.