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I think the ability of the US government to influence democracy is largely overestimated. They can't introduce it and they can't exactly stop it, either.
by bayesianhorse 11y ago
I think the ability of the US government to influence democracy is largely overestimated. They can't introduce it and they can't exactly stop it, either.
- digi_owl 11y agoThey tried their damnedest to stop it in Iran...
- bayesianhorse 11y agoThe thing is that there have been US interventions and we tend to assume that it has an effect. But that can't ever be confirmed or ruled out. In Iran's case, who says without US interventions a democracy would have survived the conservative muslim beliefs in the population?