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2016 Postmortem

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1. Stability over democracy

Reply to Kalidurga (Original post)

Mon Dec 21, 2015, 12:28 AM

Dec 2015

Whatever serves the interests of our corporate masters. We have almost always chosen to support dictators and despots instead of democratic movements as long as they bring stability. Of course we have also thwarted many a democratically elected leader through various nefarious means. We have a very long history of this.

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This is a part of the world where the United States has tried to play two different approaches. [View all] Kalidurga Dec 2015 OP

Stability over democracy hibbing Dec 2015 #1

Yes Kalidurga Dec 2015 #2