yeah - one reason being that a Western ally automatically earns the title of small-d democrat by virtue of being a Western ally (ie: allow US military bases, expropriation of profits by Western corporations). Colombia the democratic haven, Venezuela the Stalinist hellhole.
hence Lukashenko is the "last European dictator" - Belarus refused mass privatization and maintained close ties to Moscow.
Okay please enligthen us wise one with how the Baltic Countries, Poland and Romania are dictatorships.
I never asserted anything of the sort and I'm not fit for this sort of conversation anyway. I was making a point about Western use of vocabulary... whether Poland's elections are "free and fair" according to Freedom House I could care less.
Well of course you do not care. You do not care whether a country is a democracy or a dictatorship in general. Nor do you know the difference.
You would, though, if you had experience living in a dictatorship.
In breaking news, Communist living comfortably in Western democracy does not care for the plight oppressed masses in far-away dictatorships.
