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Re:Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', op... by dnautics on Sunday May 23, 2021 @12:33PM (#27256319)
> and in a lot of cases less democratic

Almost all. I can really think of two counterexamples, Japan and Korea (and it took a very long time ~30 years? for korea to figure itself out). Maybe Jugoslavia can be put into that bin too, though it's not clear if the US intervention hurt or helped.

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Re:Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', op... by scythe on Sunday May 23, 2021 @01:11PM (#27256654)
I have to preface this with a very emphatic the ends absolutely do not justify the means, but, defying ill repute and near-unanimous pessimism, Iraq seems to have been able to slowly stitch its parliamentary system back together and respond to democratic pressures (protests, elections) without resorting to fraud and violence. It's too early to celebrate, but things look a lot better than they did ten years ago.
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Re:Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', op... by froh on Sunday May 23, 2021 @12:38PM (#27256368)
you can add Germany to the list, albeit France and UK also had a say there
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Re:Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', op... by mdiesel on Sunday May 23, 2021 @12:44PM (#27256435)
Setting up the Weimar Republic after WW1 didn't go so well, then the aftermath of WW2 there were decades of east+west Germany. I don't see that as a positive example of a foreign power setting up a government.
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Re:Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', op... by anoncake on Sunday May 23, 2021 @01:46PM (#27256959)
The Weimar Republic wasn't set up by the Entente and not going to war with the Soviet Union to liberate East Germany was, to put it mildly, a reasonable decision.
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Re:Belarus 'diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist', op... by enkid on Sunday May 23, 2021 @01:08PM (#27256626)
The USA side was much better than the USSR side...
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