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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHillary Rodham Clinton: A State of Emergency for Democracy
By attacking the rule of law, Republicans are helping Putin and Xi.https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/02/republicans-ukraine-putin-xi-trump-democracy/622898/
By Hillary Rodham Clinton and Dan Schwerin
Russian President Vladimir Putin pines for the old Russian empire and takes Ukraines independence as a personal affront. But the invasion of Ukraine is not a limited regional dispute between neighbors. Putin is also motivated by a deep opposition to democracy more broadly. That is why he has waged a long-running shadow war to destabilize free societies and discredit democratic institutions in the United States and around the world. Ukraine is one flash point in a larger global struggle between democracy and autocracyone that stretches from the steppes of Eastern Europe to the waters of the Indo-Pacific to the halls of the U.S. Capitol.
The scope of that wider struggle was on vivid display on February 4. In Beijing, the worlds two most powerful autocratsPutin and Chinas Xi Jinpingcemented their deepening alliance. In the United States, where American leaders should have been unified in championing democracy against these aggressive adversaries, the opposite happened: The Republican National Committee formally declared the violent insurrection of January 6, 2021, to be legitimate political discourse.
Much has been said about the assault on American democracy by a radicalized Republican Party, but its international consequences have not gotten the attention they deserve. Republican leaders are abandoning core tenets of American democracy even as the stakes in the global contest between democracy and autocracy are clearer and higher than at any time since the end of the Cold War. They are defending coup-plotters and curbing voting rights while Russia tries to crush Ukraines fragile democracy and China menaces not only Taiwan but democracies everywhere, from Australia to Lithuania.
Putin is not just a garden-variety nationalist; he is a paranoid, chronically underestimated, implacable enemy of democracy. And while Russia poses an immediate threat to peace in Europe and to the integrity of our elections at home, it is Xis China that represents the greatest long-term challenge to the future of democracy. The United States faces a serious and sustained competition with China that may shape the rest of the 21st century as profoundly as our Cold War with the Soviet Union defined the latter part of the 20th century. The world is very different than it was during the Cold War, and China is bigger, richer, and more integrated into the global economy than the Soviet Union ever was. But the competition with China is a similarly multidimensional struggle that is economic, cultural, technological, diplomatic, military, and ideological all at the same time. That means the U.S. will have to invest and compete across all these dimensionswhile bolstering democracy at home and abroad.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton: A State of Emergency for Democracy (Original Post)
Celerity
Feb 2022
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SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)1. Kicking for visability
Irish_Dem
(46,929 posts)2. Hillary is 100% correct. China is a much bigger threat than Russia.
We have had our heads in the sand.
flying rabbit
(4,632 posts)3. K&R. nt
Bev54
(10,048 posts)4. Dems in the US have to fight for democracy as hard as the citizens of Ukraine are.
It is time.
Martin Eden
(12,863 posts)5. HRC was one of the most qualified presidential candidates EVER
She demonstrates a deeper understanding of America and world affairs in this one statement than all the verbal diarrhea issuing from TFG and the GQP since Putin installed his asset in the White House.