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But it needs to solve some of them.

Because free and open democracies are not the default way countries govern themselves.

And megalomaniacs like Putin who desire for a return to glory days do need someone of equal weight to push back.

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How has that worked out so far? A legacy of ashes as the CIA book goes. US foreign intervetionist policy of the last 20 years has been nothing but one colossal disaster after another.