Loukas Christodoulou on Nostr: I usually like the history articles by Bret Deveraux a lot. But reading this article ...
I usually like the history articles by Bret Deveraux a lot.
But reading this article made me fuming mad, because it involves a circular argument about how democracies apparently tend to support the USA.
It makes me think of this picture:
Yes, democracies tend to support the USA - but that's also because the countries that didn't support the coalition currently led by USA were often *not allowed to develop into democracies.*
https://acoup.blog/2023/07/07/collections-the-status-quo-coalition/
But reading this article made me fuming mad, because it involves a circular argument about how democracies apparently tend to support the USA.
It makes me think of this picture:
Yes, democracies tend to support the USA - but that's also because the countries that didn't support the coalition currently led by USA were often *not allowed to develop into democracies.*
https://acoup.blog/2023/07/07/collections-the-status-quo-coalition/