>there are no “pure” democratic countries. How are you defining democratic to rule out all countries we class as democratic? Further this statement undermines

>there are no “pure” democratic countries. How are you defining democratic to rule out all countries we class as democratic? Further this statement undermines the statement about democracies being unable to exist without non democracies. If there are no democracies the problem is hypothetical at best. And I'm not even sure I agree with that idea. Democracies tend to be richer yes. That doesn't mean they're exploiting the non democracies.