"I don't have the answer to peace and stability in the region, but I do know there's no example in history where you bomb people to democracy," said #Polanski on #BBCLauraK
@Geri the only sane voice amidst a mass gaslighting. I hope so much the Greens won't be another disappointment.
@alx @Geri - Oh me too on that one. So much promise and clearly right-minded here. If our Scottish Greens are anything to go by then, barring the occasional stumble, they will deliver much that they promise in a principled way.
@alx @Geri Depends on how high you get your hopes up. Best to choose the best alternative, in my view.
@alx @Geri Hi alx - we probably will be disappointing sometimes - but we will always be better together. Best way to make sure we are as good as possible - join.greenparty.org.uk
@Geri and a President who is trying to remove democracy from their own country isn't the person to ensure democracy in another
@ArrestJK @Geri
Trump doesn't want democracy. We saw that in Venezuela. They want a strongman, authoritarian government they can cut deals with.
@Geri Kosovo? Sure there were troops on the ground by the time the elections were held, but they didn't have to do any fighting to get in there.
@Geri I'm old enough to remember many other cases of "export of democracy". No surprise that they all came from the same country.
Now, given the last result from democracy, in the proposing country, a good question would go like "then we should change our imposed autocracy with a system that let's us all vote to choose a people elected autocracy?"
@luc0x61 yea, you are not wrong xx
@Geri tangential: took a quote-post by Charlie Stross to reckon ―from all over here across the pond― that the Polanski you were referring to was not Roman πŸ˜”
@blogdiva No, I think he was born in Salford, which is not even in Italy 😁
@Geri Japan?
@imclaren no, It was Russia declaring war that made Japan surrender xx
@Geri eh, I don’t want to start an argument, but it was a bit more complex than that? Also, the question wasn’t what made the country surrender, it was what turned it into a democracy. Either way I recognise that my bow is long.

@imclaren yeah let's park this for this for now. ..

There's more stuff going on !!! Xx