Also, why do you feel threatened that like-minded countries take care of their own security?

The right way for you is only if they are bullied without complaint?

You are confusing bemusement for being threatened.

Interesting how you overlook Japan's strong judicial independence, press freedom, and regular peaceful transitions of power to focus on ethno-nationalism.

Meanwhile, Hungary systematically dismantles judicial independence, crushes media freedom, and rewrites electoral rules to entrench single-party rule - but sure, they're the real liberals here.

The proposed alliance isn't claiming perfect members - it's establishing clear, measurable standards through indices like WJP Rule of Law. If Japan doesn't meet the 0.67 threshold, they're out too. That's the whole point: consistent standards applied equally, not convenient exceptions.

But please, continue defending Orbán's "illiberal democracy" while nitpicking flaws in actual functioning democracies. That's definitely a coherent position.

In these 'democracies' you can be jailed for online comments lol.

Exactly - in Hungary and Russia!

In the same league as the UK and Germany. This is why I don't support unfettered American alignment with these countries. There is no major country as liberal as the United States.

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