@toomas_ilves

Democracies could have, *should* have delivered despotism and military-expansionism a short, sharp shock of a coup de grâce in #1989.

But no. Business (with dictators) uber alles.

So now we have both #CCP #china and (as always) neo-imperial #russia trying to destroy liberal and progressive democratic order globally.

And this time we also have #climatechange, #plastic and other #pollutioncrises to deal with.

Isn't it time for all democracies to pull together and *only* deal with #dictatorships to the minimum extent where it objectively benefits humanity instead of empowering repressive authoritarians?

Let's see how powerful the old men of CCP are with zero foreign funding, technology and aid,,,

☝️ "The Russia-Ukraine war is not merely a humanitarian calamity, a monstrous collection of crimes against humanity, a gross violation of solemn agreements and international law. It is also a watershed, in which much will be determined about the future of the international system. It could lead to a very dark place, not different in kind from that of the 1930s and 1940s, if the dictators get their way. But if the liberal democracies unite and display the resolve, enterprise, and military capacity that they have shown before, that outcome can still be avoided."

#zeitenwende #HandelOhneWandel #WTO #freetrade #globalism