Actually, I was primarily addressingthe two "world leaders" involved in th eUkraine crisis..
...But we will soon have to get the radical left straightened out, else we will be headed down the road predicted by. Prof Alexander Fraser Tytler
* who said:
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.
These nations have progressed through this sequence:
1) From bondage to spiritual faith;
2) From spiritual faith to great courage;
3) From courage to liberty;
4)From liberty to abundance;
5) From abundance to selfishness;
6) From selfishness to apathy;
7) From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage.”
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*Some attribute this to Benjamin Disraeli. Nevertheless, the observation seems to be historically, very accurate.