They are champions of democracy but the leader of the most popular party is being railroaded in false cases their silence more than anything tells us what is going on. How come they are not saying anything apart from it being a countries internal matter when a democracy is being destroyed but had statements about human rights every week against the previous democratic government.

Everything that the US preaches (democracy, human rights, free markets, freedom of expression...) is just a tool for subjugation of the disobedient. US only believe in their cold and naked interest, mostly money and power. Moral, ethics, signed papers, laws, norms... - all that does not matter. It is thier "rules based order" where they write the rules which they themselves don't follow. They are "exceptional". Yeah, right. That's why we see the Global majority turns against Global minority (US and its minions).

Age will probably moderate this absolutist thinking. A government is just a collection of people. Many good, many bad.

For instance, why did the British ban slavery? How did that serve to "subjugate the disobedient"?

> - US has provided significant financial assistance here, and if it doesnt get any say in return, it has no incentive to provide continued help.

Text book bribery.

You can't bribe an entire state. I don't mean that in a philosophical sense; I mean that any state gets to decide what's legitimate support and what's bribery.

Kind of hard to argue for the least bad when there's been pro-US death squads cracking down on their opposition.