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Russia has no shortage of top-notch democracies next door.
by distances 6y ago
Russia has no shortage of top-notch democracies next door.
- JumpCrisscross 6y ago> Russia has no shortage of top-notch democracies next door Correct, but none with a Slavic majority. Similar with China. Lots of democracies. None with mostly Han Chinese. The threat to both comes from the disabling of their argument that democracy doesn’t work for “their” people. It’s difficult for Russia to define a set of people that encompasses its population but excludes Ukrainians. Same for Beijing with respect to Hong Kong and Taiwan.