> Russia has shown no intention of imposing an autocracy in Ukraine. Care to elaborate? What is it Russia is doing in Ukraine? To me it looks like Ukraine was

> Russia has shown no intention of imposing an autocracy in Ukraine. Care to elaborate? What is it Russia is doing in Ukraine? To me it looks like Ukraine was given a choice of becoming a vassal state like Belarus or Russia would ensure this by force (or at least ensure it in parts of the country where it’s militarily feasible to do so). > The major threat to our democracies are capitalism In what sense? The correlation between capitalist and democratic countries is nearly perfect - so obviously the only countries that risk losing their democracy are capitalist states. The others never had any to lose.