Joelcool7 said:
Today Russia supports and has since the fall of the USSR several non-democratic countries. Always bashing heads with western democracies, the cold war never really ended Russia continued to invest in countries that were undemocratic and were anti-western. That never changed and under Putin Russia has become more and more hostile and provocative against democratic countries and more and more supportive and friendly with dictatorships and allowing and enabling genocides and human rights abuses alongside China. Its true that the US kept expanding Nato despite the USSR collapse. But would they have done so if Russia had actually shown their intentions and proved they were seriously moving to democracy? If Russia had stopped supporting communist governments and not provided weapons and support to enemies of western democracies. If Russia had pulled its spies and joined military agreements and other agreements with western countries the out come would have been far different. |
Western countries are no better when it comes to supporting non-democratic countries. During the Cold War, the US didn't give a flying fuck about whether the counries they supported were democratic or not. The only thing that mattered was that they were anti-communist (for example, US supported Franco in to his death). A more modern example would be president Mubaraks regime in Egypt, which was supported mostly by the US. It wasn't until last spring, after 30 years of US support, that Mubarak was suddenly declared the enemy of democracy.
