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I don’t think we can count US as an "authoritarian regime".

• inglor_cz 5y ago
  Even democratic states tend to reel after lost wars. Perhaps not collapse entirely, but a period of unrest is very possible.
  • pjerem 5y ago
    Just out of curiosity, are there a fair number of democratic countries (outside of the US) deciding to go to war and then lose it ? On the contrary it looks like democracies have a hard time even deciding to defend themselves, because people will never decide risk a war on their country. And Putin is exploiting just this, IMO.
    • inglor_cz 5y ago
      In the last decades, no. If they enter a war, it is usually because it is forced upon them by an external power. But many important Western European countries were at least flawed democracies since approximately the last quarter of the 19th century. For example, Italy was a democracy when it launched an abortive attempt to conquer Ethiopia in 1896.