[foverzar]

Large geopolitical powers are all the same. It's only people who live there that are convinced they are doing better than those other guys.

Yes, that includes people from Russia, China or the US believing they are the ones who are truly free, and everything else are totalitarian shitholes. Each one of them is even kind of right in their own regard.

[RandomThoughts3]

> Large geopolitical powers are all the same.

No, they are not.

Nobody in Europe disappears for six months because they have offended the government before mysteriously reappearing like in China. No one dictates single handedly what’s going to happen without any form of oversight like in Russia.

Heck France currently has an interim government because they voted out the previous one and the US had a decisive election coming in a few months.

The people who want to convince you otherwise generally have a vested interest in undermining democracy and pushing for a form of autocracy.

[Ray20]

>that includes people from Russia, China or the US believing they are the ones who are truly free, and everything else are totalitarian shitholes.

In Russia, China or North Korea - nobody believes that.

[foverzar]

> In Russia, China or North Korea - nobody believes that.

Well of course, they're all actually super miserable and are secretly begging the government of your country or her stronger allies to liberate them and wisely lead to a glorious bright westernized future.

Don't be naive. It's probably worth exploring where'd you get such a maximalist idea in the first place and measure just how much empirical evidence you have to back it up.

[Ray20]

>It's probably worth exploring where'd you get such a maximalist idea Have you explored where's you get the idea that it'n not the case?