Tale as old as time. Remove all the good ones and end up with a bunch of yes men who do whatever you want, lose the wars, rinse and repeat.
lose the wars
After getting a lot of people killed, and probably fucking over your civilian population as well first.
Worked out really well for Russia too, as we can see in the current war.
I think the implosion of Russia and China will pave a new wave of democracy around the world.
Under good conditions, autocracy can outperform democracy.
But eventually you get in a rough patch of the road. Democracies can just throw out and replace their leaders without power struggles or violence. And they can rinse and repeat until the right leadership is found.
Meanwhile, autocracies are stuck with the leadership they have. And if that leadership is failing, they can’t change leadership without a high cost (civil war or violent revolution).
So the failing leaders hang on and fail even harder, for years or decades. And the country remains stuck and falls behind the rest of the world.
I think we are in for a shit sandwich. Not a flourishing of democracy, but a general failure of the non American system and a great shrinking of the American system from global to “friends we like and protect”.
Democracies will shine above the rest. But I don’t see a great push for them in the wider world, especially with America so disillusioned with the idea of spreading democracy as a concept.
It also doesn’t help that one of our major political parties here in the US openly doesn’t like the concept of democracy and is working to subvert it here.
A shit show is in the near future for sure.
Hopefully a flourishing of democracy is in the cards but that’s going to be a tough sell for people who haven’t had one.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The removal of China’s foreign and defense ministers appears to enforce leader Xi Jinping’s demand for total obedience and the elimination of any potential rivals within the ruling Communist Party, analysts say.
There is no indication that the disappearances of Qin and Li signal a change in China’s foreign or defense policies, which seek to form alliances in opposition to the liberal democratic world order led by the U.S. and its allies.
Li’s ouster was likely based on multiple factors, including an anticorruption investigation linked to the equipment development department dating back to 2017, said Meia Nouwens, a China expert with the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
China has since cut off contact with the U.S. military, mainly in protest over U.S. arms sales to Taiwan, and strongly implied that Washington must lift the measures against Li that Beijing refuses to publicly recognize.
China’s political and legal systems remain opaque, fueling lively discussion of possible corruption, personal foibles or fallings-out with other powerful figures leading to the downfall of top officials.
China’s ruling party is also struggling to revive an economy that has been severely impacted by draconian “zero COVID” measures, an aging population, high unemployment among college graduates and a movement of many of its wealthiest and best educated to more liberal societies abroad.
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This is exactly what the #fascist #GOP wants to do in the #USA & the actual reason #Traitor #Tuberville is holding up military #promotions.
This comment looks so scuffed on Lemmy
Doesn’t surprise me. The default GUI of every Lemmy instance I’ve stumbled upon looks like it came straight from the late 90’s.
This isn’t about America, also why all the hashtags?
