Geopolitics

every act of war from a dictatorship is done only to enrich the people in power, no exception

they divert natural resources and gdp towards military budgets that get stolen

dictators don't go to war to win

democracies do

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ie we don't have a democracy in the West 💯

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what's that "west?"

is it in the same room as us?

Is it mexico? Argentina? Chilli? Brazil? Is it Morocco? Is it Norway? Iceland? Finland? Greece? Italy?

no, i really don't — you're generalizing something that can't be generalized

Everyone who speaks in geopolitical arena refers to "West" as the American, Canadian, European, and Oceanic allying countries (obviously by European alliance I also refer to mostly EU / NATO / WE / NE countries)

It's like asking "wdym by middle east, middle of what"

you keep generalizing without cause

you will have hard time making any point like that or getting it across

so you do claim that Norway and Iceland are not democracies

you do realize you're plain wrong here, right?

Oh you mean generalizing for the democracy bit, not the definition of "West". Lol obviously it's generalizing, that wasn't meant as a larger absolute point clearly. The context includes larger geo-influence and interconnected economies too. FWIW, many of the rankings are flawed as their parameters are constrained.

Sorry mate, democracy definition has been diluted to the ground with long-time-gapped elections, lack of weighting, single choice ballots, lobbying, & capital-owned media. None of these are necessarily "working democracies" as the system was originally intended & defined however I don't disagree with the relative view

many of the rankings are flowed, but all of them are showing surprisingly similar countries up top

what you meant to say is "US doesn't have democracy" not "west doesn't have democracy"

as it's quite evident that the "west" as you define it is primarily working democracies