On you go then.

Or did you just mean other people?

Allright. I'll bite.

How many millions of people are you ready to kill in this mission of opposing dictatorships? How many of them your own countrymen, and how many of them foreigners? Just looking for an order of magnitude estimate, here.

I'd like to see the ethical calculus on this, before joining in on this maximum use of force.

Or, did you mean that everyone should talk a big game about opposing dictatorships? We're already doing that. Talk is cheap, as is foreign oil and other goods.

Most dictatorships are paper thin. A few people with guns, tanks, and fighter jets can hold down millions of others without those. Those few people are easily defeated when facing a superior external force though, even if they have millions of supposed troops (these are willing to surrender immediately). Examples include Iraq, Afghanistan, etc in frontal battle with foreign troops.

Even if the fight IS hard and kills many people, it is worth it right? Or do you want your wife to disappear for four years and be kept in a black prison? Or do you want to watch millions of ethnic minorities being murdered in concentration camps?

It's better to fight, risk death, and be free than to cower in fear while your loved ones are tortured and murdered.

Communism is in with the kids nowadays, and society is largely not unified in anything, so I think this is going to be here to stay.

The united states pulls these tricks all the time and claims to not be a dictatorship

I don't understand why we should let some countries get away with horrible things just because they call themselves democracy...

> claims to not be a dictatorship

Is it?

Some days it's difficult to tell which organization is truly in charge of the united states. Nominally for example, the state governments are in charge of things like medical care regulation, but increasingly unelected national business men threaten retaliation whenever the legislature passes law they don't like.