(October 14, 2022 at 9:57 am)Mister Agenda Wrote:(October 12, 2022 at 3:09 pm)Belacqua Wrote: Before the war started, it was universally acknowledged that Ukraine was one of the most corrupt countries in Europe. It has banned at least 10 opposition parties from standing in elections and made large parts of its population into second class citizens.
By your standards, the US should sanction it and refuse to provide any economic or military aid.
The US is not authoritarian because it supports someone else's fight against authoritarianism. If it is doing that somewhere, that's good.
Corrupt does not equal dictatorship; so not by his standards at all.
I see what you mean.
I was going by "drops below a certain level of democracy and openness." You're right that a government which drops below such a level need not be a dictatorship.
