Random comments in the context of martial law being imposed in South Korea!
#SouthKorea and #Taiwan, among others, were brutal military dictatorships until the late 1980s. Once the #USSR became wobbly, and the #USA felt confident that they could dictate the course of events without military boots on people’s chests, both those countries got democratic regimes.
ps: @santiago, you have often commented on this.
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The next three decades saw the #NATO block and the Western media hyping up these countries as islands of democracy surrounded by barbarians and authoritarians.
Now the #USA feels no longer confident of dictating events across the world, #Russia and #China are reasonably strong challengers. And lo and behold, a potential dictatorship raises its head in #SouthKorea.
#Pakistan and #Bangladesh have got their own variants.
#Taiwan ought to be worried.
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Irrespective of the fate of the present martial law decree in #SouthKorea, I think we will see more and more military dictatorships coming up in countries of the #GlobalSouth in the next few years.
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The facades of exporting #LiberalDemocracy, and of a rules-based international order, no longer serve the purpose of the Western empire; so they are out.
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