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by Const-me
1966 days ago
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> Jordan is a monarchy OK, that’s two out of how many? NATO alone has 30 states, that’s 29 excluding the US. Claiming these two are “many of the US’s allies” is dishonest. > was making the country into what Ukraine is today Quality of life, and economy, of Russia started to decline before the transition to democracy. Two main reasons were international sanctions for the war in Afghanistan (like Ronald Reagan’s security directive 75 in 1983), and collapse of oil prices around 1986. Transition to democracy was not making the country into anything. Causations is directed from earlier to later events, never the other way around. > Look at the current state of Ukraine. The economy ain’t great because since 2014 Ukraine is losing many lives and resources defending Russian military aggression. In terms of democratic freedoms the country is way ahead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index |
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