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Goodbye ‘Freedom and Democracy’, Hello ‘Rules-based International Order’

The banner and the clarion call of western countries, and their own asserted legitimization – especially when they are engaging in illegal wars and coups – used to be “freedom and democracy”: the precious gift they were generously and selflessly offering to a backward world – or one allegedly in the ‘chains’ of Socialism/Communism. There was “Radio Free Europe”, for example, pushing out western liberal propaganda, primarily against the countries of the former Soviet Union. Continue reading Goodbye ‘Freedom and Democracy’, Hello ‘Rules-based International Order’