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An earnest appraisal of the re-orientation of the international order. . . now that America's great again.

https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/202...ration/169125/
https://www.smh.com.au/national/unde...28-p55zxc.html

"A decade ago there were 98 democratic states in the world, according to Democracy Without Borders. By this year that had fallen to 87. Autocracy claimed eight nations last year alone.
"For the first time since 2001, a majority of all states worldwide are no longer under democratic rule," says its annual Varieties of Democracy report, published in March by researchers based at the University of Gothenburg. It draws on a survey of 3000 experts worldwide to produce 3 million data points.
Fifty-four per cent of the human race now lives under autocratic rule. "And with Hungary, there is for the first time an EU member state classified as autocratic," it finds."

FYI: Peter Hartcher has had the sponsored study tour, taken the special briefings as gospel, deeply drunk the Kool-aid.
And his article doesn't fully recognise the rise in authoritarianism in Modi's India, Boris in UK, ScoMo in Aussie, all of Washington and Suga in Japan.
The trend is growing daily.
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