These two references are very much about the present state of politics and culture, particularly in the Western world
http://www.dabase.org/p8realpolitik.htm
http://www.dabase.org/p7unity.htm
http://www.da-peace.org/excerpt-everybody-all-at-once

The Summit for Democracy is a cheap PR exercise by the Biden Administration keen to show that America is Back on the World Stage rather than any serious attempt to stop the backsliding of democracy.
The biggest threat to democracy has come from pretend democracies and empires like the USA, UK, France and Germany who have used democracy as an excuse to suppress freedom, human rights and rule of law.
It is laughable to expect the military industrial and intelligence cartel known as NATO or the corrupt political elites in the EU to advance democracy, human rights and rule of law when they exist to suppress any independent thinking and action in Europe and the Middle East. The USA has become an evil empire that supports any dictator who gives it access to its budgets and control of its affairs. They mistreatment of Macedonia is a case in point where they support new despotism who sell out their history, identity, democracy and rule of law. The best thing the Biden Administration can do is to stop selling its foreign and defense capabilities to the highest bidder and release their longest serving political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal