Genuine democracies do not ban multiple opposition parties or close opposition media outlets. Nor do they rigorously censor (and put under strict government control) media outlets that they allow to remain open. Genuine democracies do not outlaw churches that advocate policies the government dislikes. They do not imprison regime opponents, let alone without meaningful due process, much less tolerate …More
Genuine democracies do not ban multiple opposition parties or close opposition media outlets. Nor do they rigorously censor (and put under strict government control) media outlets that they allow to remain open. Genuine democracies do not outlaw churches that advocate policies the government dislikes. They do not imprison regime opponents, let alone without meaningful due process, much less tolerate the torture of political prisoners. Genuine democracies do not publish “blacklists” of domestic and foreign critics, thereby putting a target on their backs. Yet the Ukrainian government has committed not just one or two, but all of those abuses.
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False Democracy - The American Conservative
Ukraine is not the bastion of freedom described by most Western media. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images) Ukraine’s Western cheerleaders seem to have …
Contra to what that the Russian propagandist posing an American says in that blog post linked, Ukraine dissolved certain parties with treasonable links to the despot Putin. Nothing more. Every political party in Russia in parliament are KGB puppets and minons.
it's not matter of whether Ukraine is a democracy. if Russia takes Ukraine. then Latvia. Estonia, Lithuania, Poland are next. They are in NATO, and that means a World War, possibly nuclear