One of Those Times: It's Time to Take One Side or the Other on a Global Scale

Look we respect your intelligence You know the word quotrhetoricquot You know what it means It means the use of words to sway people regardless of what the truth might be So we ask that you look beyond words Look beyond not only Russiaamp8217s words also look beyond our words Take a hard look at the real world and make your own decisionsThe quotwestquot as Russia calls all the democratic nations on Earth see list below is quotdyingquot so Russian propaganda says We don39t feel like we are dying We are a strong engine for positive change Our people are the happiest people on Earth even now with COVID and everything else We help the third world without causing them to become indebted to us Thatamp8217s a pretty telling differenceThe countries that are leaning toward perhaps siding with Russia believe in strong man rule over their own people They put them in jail for criticizing their governments We call this quotautocracyquot The world has been trying to decide between autocracy and democracy for a couple of centuries now Before that it was all autocracies Even the west was comprised of autocracies When European countries were autocracies they colonized most of the world but in the last 100 years they have come to their senses shrunk back to their home territories and have become among the most humanitarian people in the world This is dramatically shown in map animation hereWhich kind of future world do you really want to live in Tell yourself and your loved ones the truth about this even if you can39t speak out more publicly right now because of the risk Know the world you and your loved ones really want You39ll need to know it in order to make the tough decisions that lie aheadDon39t be taken in by words Look at deeds Look at which countries push their own people around and shut them up Look at which countries help the third world but do so in a way which indebts the third world to them Look at the countries that help the third world without indebting them Words are easy to throw around Deeds are the real thing to go byquotNaziquot is a word The Russian advertising propagandists appear to have decided it39s a great word to link to the quotwestquot meaning the world39s democracies The places where people are the freest and the happiestWe are the furthest thing from Nazis In fact the Nazis invented what the Russians are doing now The Nazis called the technique quotThe Big Liequot tell a lie so big people think quotThat sounds so wild it must be true because no one would try to tell a lie that bigquotNazis were all about strong central rule the same as Russia That39s the definition of autocracy Definitely the Big Lie technique We know you are too smart to fall for itThis is a time of taking sides We don39t really like the idea of having to take sides We prefer that there are no factions that we are all sovereign nations and within those nations each of us is a sovereign person who must be respected No one should try to take over anyone else But gangs of autocrats have tried since history began to take over everyone else It39s the world39s oldest story We thought we had ended it but it is still writhing around making trouble for all of us Causing rising prices and death and fear and families separated and it could get much more terrible if we don39t stop it nowIt appears that the only way we can stop it is by taking sides Like choosing who is on your team at the beginning of a ball game in the schoolyard If we all say we want freedom and equality and justice for all and 60 of the world39s people say that in unison the undecided people will make up their minds and we will be 90 and then the 10 realizing how outnumbered they are will stand downWe have the internet now the democracies invented it and gave it to everyone so let39s use it to get our team together and show the bullies how outnumbered they are so the folks on the fence come over to our side It39s what their people want already but their leaders see some value in being on both sides But that is rapidly disappearing as a true option The middle grounders which is what I usually am myself are giving strength to the autocrats just by not making a commitment one way or the otherThat runs the risk of encouraging the autocrats who believe their own lies to some extent to talk themselves into becoming even more aggressive The fence sitters would wake up one morning and hate themselves if World War III happens because their indecision led the autocrats onSadly on a world level it39s time to join one of the two teams now without further delayDemocratic Nations Norway Iceland Sweden New Zealand Canada Finland Denmark Ireland Netherlands Australia Taiwan Switzerland Luxembourg Germany Uruguay United Kingdom Chile Costa Rica Austria Mauritius Japan Spain South Korea France United States Portugal Estonia Israel Italy Malta Czech Republic Botswana Cyprus Slovenia Belgium Greece Latvia Malaysia Panama Trinidad and Tobago Lithuania Jamaica TimorLeste South Africa Colombia Slovakia Argentina Brazil Poland Suriname Bulgaria India Tunisia Hungary Philippines Peru Namibia Croatia Ghana Mongolia Romania Dominican Republic Lesotho Indonesia Serbia Paraguay Sri Lanka Ecuador Papua New Guinea Albania Mexico Thailand Singapore and GuyanaAutocratic Nations Mali Mauritania Palestine Kuwait Algeria Burkina Faso Angola Jordan Iraq Nicaragua Gabon Mozambique Ethiopia Russia Niger Qatar Zimbabwe Kazakhstan Republic of the Congo Rwanda Cambodia Comoros eSwatini Guinea Myanmar Oman Vietnam Egypt Afghanistan Cuba Togo Cameroon Venezuela Djibouti United Arab Emirates Azerbaijan GuineaBissau Belarus Sudan Bahrain China Iran Eritrea Burundi Uzbekistan Saudi Arabia Libya Yemen Tajikistan Equatorial Guinea Laos Turkmenistan Chad Syria Central African Republic DR Congo and North KoreaClick the social buttons to share this content with your friends and colleaguesThe opinions and points of view expressed in this content are exclusively the views of the author 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