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1/2: #Democracy: #Autocracy: The exhaustion of the major powers & What is to be done? Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affair

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🗓️ 19 July 2023

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1/2: #Democracy: #Autocracy: The exhaustion of the major powers & What is to be done? Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs
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Autocracy, democracy, two forms of society that exist on the planet right now.

0:40.3

Then there is monarchy. The question is,

0:43.9

monarchy was the older version of government. Is it also the future version of government

0:51.6

that can introduce order and calmness and stability and peace to troubled autocracies and democracies?

1:01.6

I welcome my friend, the publisher and editor of Defense and Foreign Affairs Gregory Kaplay,

1:09.7

writing about these dances of government right now and in history and what is to be done.

1:17.9

Gregory, a very good evening to the democratic societies. That would be the United States and Europe.

1:23.6

We can name others, but those were good examples and the autocracy, the autocratic societies.

1:28.8

Right now on planet earth, I would be Russian, China. We can include the lesser lights of Iran and

1:36.2

North Korea. But in any event, you write very convincingly that they're converging

1:43.2

the way they govern. They're converging to top down. How so, Gregory? Good evening to you.

1:49.6

Good evening, John. Well, the theory of convergence of the two great rival global systems,

1:56.6

democracy and communism was articulated strongly and repeatedly throughout the Cold War.

2:04.1

But it was ultimately decided that one side had to prevail. And of course, democracy prevailed at

2:13.5

that particular time. Larger because it offered a far more fluid, freeform type of government which

2:21.3

enabled nimble decision making it enabled the profit motive to act more quickly than governments

2:29.6

could in ensuring global trade, global productivity and the like. But today, the forms of convergence

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