I agree with some of your comments, but the problem we are facing is that without democracy, we don’t know what the people of China or say Russia (or take your

I agree with some of your comments, but the problem we are facing is that without democracy, we don’t know what the people of China or say Russia (or take your pick) really want. The power is concentrated at the top of pyramid and so this immediately makes it a precarious situation where a few determine for the many. In the 00’s there were some hopes and signals and work done to see more democracy in those spheres, but it never materialized. So while you are right in the sense of China doing China things as it has, or Russia Russian things, the fact that one guy could wake up in a grumpy mood and start a war is what makes things a lot more fragile than they ought to be. Democracy is a bulwark against this type of fragile type of government.