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50 sats \ 4 replies \ @Bitman 5 Oct 2023 \ on: Is dictatorship itself a crime against humanity? meta
Plus to some larger countries, there's usefulness in supporting a dictator in another land.
Cordell Hull speaking to FDR about the Nicaraguan dictator Somoza
This seems to be the usual playbook played by the west to control the developing nations (see the recent work of Alex Gladstein). Dictators are supported directly (e.g., Pinochet, Saudi Arabia, Zelenskyy) or indirectly through IMF and world bank funding, allowing them to pillage their countries and if they don't play ball (e.g., Sadam Hussein, Gaddafi) they get wiped out while the more cooperative and bloody ones stay in charge
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Zelenskyy isn't a dictator. Ukraine presidents serve 5-years with a 2-term limit. Comparing that to the divine right of a single family that's been in power for a century (Saudi Arabia) or a guy who served for nearly 30-years (Pinochet) and tortured and murdered his own people is a false equivalence and popular twitter talking point the anti-west troll farms gave us.
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Very true. Good catch!
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True, but we can't confine it to just one point of the compass. Nor just confine it to governments - but multinationals through the ages too.
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