I’m trying to learn more about the Russia/Ukraine conflict. In the articles that I find that seem to be critical of Ukraine, there are a few that are right wing that seem to have similar viewpoints as what I’ve read on here or in the more leftist articles.
For example this piece from National Interest, or this from the CATO institute.
There are others that aren’t flagged as right wing that are critical, but it’s just got me wondering, why would right wing politicians/publications perceive these things similarly to how some communists would when the ideologies of both are so extremely opposite?
Disclaimer: I’m not pro-ukraine at all, but in my search for info that’s not super pro-Ukraine propaganda, this is the stuff that comes up for me
I guess I’d call that action authoritarian.
In the end there are no perfect democracies, so far there have been no societies where every individual held the same amount of power. At the same time there have never been perfect autocracies either, as there have so far been no societies where one person held absolute power while everyone else held none. They are extremes in between which societies can move, no society is ever either one or the other.
I don’t understand your question, better than what? Better than a democratic action? Heck no. Better than an entirely authoritarian system? Heck yes.
What a democratic action? Is a democracy violently putting down a far right uprising authoritarian or democratic? Is a democracy invading a another country to “bring it democracy” authoritarian or democratic?
Is a government that’s only democratic for some of its citizens but maintains the economic prosperity needed for a stable democracy by ruthlessly exploiting some of its own citizens and/or others abroad democratic or authoritarian?