No they aren't. No they won't. Look at North Korea: so much for sanctions. The only weapon against oppressive regime is economic and cultural freedom and influ

No they aren't. No they won't. Look at North Korea: so much for sanctions. The only weapon against oppressive regime is economic and cultural freedom and influence. Exchange wares, exchange ideas, and eventually there would be a market for democracy, so to speak. I know a very few countries that are both prosperous and non-democratic. And you won't mind all of those: they don't have to do bad things since they've got money.