Quote from: GrLinkey on November 05, 2023, 02:25:02 PM

I think that currently the politicians in democracies do not understand how they should confront authoritarian regimes like China and Russia. It can be very simple – threatening such regimes a war unless they choose political liberalization.
When Hitler started oppressing mass media in 1933, the France could threaten him – stop this unless we start a war. I am sure this was an easy way to prevent all horrors of the WW2. The Germans were eager to fight for their country, their “fatherland” as they understood it; but could they fight for political repressions in Germany, for closing independent mass media? I am sure that no. The same could happen in 2003 in Russia, when Putin started to take away the TV channels from Russian Oligarchs (NTV Ren TV).
And it is not too late to perform this now. Possibly soon Putin will block youtube in Russia (if not – eventually youtube will destroy the state propaganda in Russia). If the West threatens in this case the missile strikes on Russian centers of state TV channels – this will easily end the rule of Putin in Russia. The Russians surely will not fight for blocking youtube, for supporting the Putin’s lies.
The same with China. If I am not mistaken, the Chinese people are quite unhappy with the digital totalitarianism (state social rating) and surely will not fight for it.

I don't plagiarize

It's actually ironic to compare hilter with Putin.
From what was written about hilter, it seems he was a globalist-nazi whose sole agenda was to conquer and rule the world. Putin doesn't seem like that kind of person. He doesn't have that kind of lust for power, and I don't see much desire to conquer or rule other nations in him. He's more interested in Russia and very defensive of her against nazis that tried to conquer/weaken her via choas.
The evil entity behind hitler is actually thesame entity that is behind those fighting to conquer and weaken Russia. The way Russia behaved in the conflict between her and Ukraine is quite opposite of what hitler would have done.

In regards to encouraging democracy and liberalization in Russia, I don't think Russia needs that. What every nation on Earth needs is rule based leadership/governance, with golden rule of Love for GOD & man. The rule has to good or atleast fair to work in different countries in their own unique circumstances. Wherever ideology you want other to adopt has to according to the good rules that factor in their unique circumstances. You would be surprised how well countries discover their true nature and purposes when they stick to good rule-based constitutions.