The way the 'democratic' West is shedding democracy and moving to the Left, there will be no room for worries about the Third World. In fact, we will be very lucky if we don't join the Third World the way we are going.

The only way for democracy to survive, if the is an enforceable covenant to limit political public office to a maximum of two terms!

With all foreign aid withdrawn and harsher and harsher sanctions applied until there are free and fair and totally transparent elections EVERYWHERE!

And where that doesn't bring about compliance with agreed international law?

A cruise missile delivered by a drone, through the bedroom window as the tyrant and his entourage are in occupation! Given that almost always is the result of non-compliance with agreed international law. The return or start of democracy?

Not everybody is going to be a willing signatory to international law? Where that is the case? The rest of the world can withhold any foreign aid and ALL international trade etc-etc!

They can be inside the democracy tent and gain all the benefits of cooperative capitalism etc! Outside of it and get SFA! Until there's a change of heart and mind!

For this to work, all consenting democracies need to belong to Nato and the UN. Any outside the democracy tent to be expelled from the UN and the security council, otherwise, those that disagree? Will forever and a day, use their veto to prevent the very reforms we need to protect democracy and the rule of law!

Those outside the tent, only respect strong men? Let's be sure we show them plenty of them and implacable resolve!

If anything else might work? I'm all ears! I'm certainly not in favour of financing their military adventures or build-up/expansion, via trade!

Any old iron? Sorry, not for you! Understand yet geniuses?
Alan B.

Which country has an actual, working Democracy ?

Good question, Individual. Our alleged democracy gives mere lip service to that ideal?

As our pollies understand democracy? Would seem to be, by the political establishment, for the political establishment, of the political establishment? And something the tin-eared political establishment spends your money defending?

As they send our best and brightest into harm's way, to allegedly protect our values and hard-won freedom?

That they wax lyrical on the topic? Makes one almost wet oneself laughing! Corporations own the world and decide almost everything!

Yet we could put an end to their soulless control with cooperative capitalism revisited and reestablished! Then just allow genuine competition to prevail and just wait until that destroys the multinational corporations our pollies serve, as they shore up the real estate market, the stock market, the corporations and unparalleled tax avoidance, price gouging and profit repatriation?

Be in no doubt the average joe is just a number and a disposable resource!

Democracy? How many of the preelections are decided in primaries, then subsequent runoffs?

And or, alternatively by power brokers and preference votes/yes men and party hacks with no new ideas, ever!

Democracy? Don't make me laugh! Yet a little better than the current alternatives! What would the average joe lose if the Chinese or Russians controlled our world? And would sacrificing our lives to protect what w have now? Be worth the prize?

Methinks the thousands of Aussie digger who sacrificed all? Might not think so when they compare what they believed they were fighting to preserve and what is now served up in its place?

I would apply my remedy to our tin-eared own until they do more than pay mere lip service to the ideals inherent in true democracy!
Alan B.