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The US's Allies Are Not Democracies
I don't think the framing of democracy versus autocracy is at all helpful in this case. Many of the US's allies which it depends on are not democracies and it always has to manage its relationship with autocracies. I just met an official last week who was telling me how unhelpful and how difficult it is for America's allies to be essentially forced to choose because nobody wants to choose. This fragmentation of the world is a concept that we're not seeing yet so much in the West We're not really understanding that the impact of the big conflicts is more fragmentation and more more frustration.