Should governments of non-democratic countries get a seat at the table?
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« on: February 12, 2024, 10:09:30 PM »
Should they or should they not?
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« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2024, 10:11:42 PM »
What table? Where?
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« Reply #2 on: February 12, 2024, 10:31:59 PM »

The question is supposed to be open ended, which is obvious. As always, you are nowhere near as clever as you think you are.
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« Reply #3 on: February 12, 2024, 10:33:00 PM »
In that case, non-democratic countries should receive a seat at the table, but really uncomfortable ones that can't lean back without falling down, and swivel chairs go to multi-party democracies only.
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« Reply #4 on: February 12, 2024, 10:33:51 PM »
Quote from: TheReckoning on February 12, 2024, 10:31:59 PM

The question is supposed to be open ended, which is obvious. As always, you are nowhere near as clever as you think you are.

That's rather stupidly open-ended then.

Yes, they deserve a table in the death row dining hall.
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« Reply #5 on: February 12, 2024, 10:39:07 PM »
To the extent these terms reflect our belief systems around government, obviously.
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« Reply #6 on: February 12, 2024, 11:04:12 PM »
Obviously democracies need to engage constructively with non-democracies, otherwise the entire international order would collapse. However, consolidated liberal democracies really should form a united geopolitical block to counteract the rise of authoritarianism.
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« Reply #7 on: February 12, 2024, 11:06:05 PM »
Quote from: TheReckoning on February 12, 2024, 10:31:59 PM

The question is supposed to be open ended, which is obvious. As always, you are nowhere near as clever as you think you are.

Then the question is too broad to be able to give a meaningful answer.
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« Reply #8 on: February 13, 2024, 12:03:47 AM »
Quote from: TheReckoning on February 12, 2024, 10:31:59 PM
As always, you are nowhere near as clever as you think you are.

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« Reply #9 on: February 13, 2024, 02:34:32 PM »
It depends on what OP means. I think it's important to maintain diplomacy for the better of foreign affairs. But whether to join a treaty or allow them to join an existing treaty would require a significant cost-benefit analysis and only if the world's prosperity was threatened would I consider such a deal.
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« Reply #10 on: February 13, 2024, 03:16:51 PM »
They can get a seat at the kids table
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« Reply #11 on: February 13, 2024, 03:23:24 PM »
Morally obviously not, but that has nothing to do with Realpolitik. Unfortunately there are too many countries with too much economic and military power to ignore.

Sometimes it's necessary evil for the greater good or world peace. Even FDR and Churchill formed an alliance with Stalin to defeat nazism.
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« Reply #12 on: February 13, 2024, 03:53:47 PM »
How are we defining democracy here, because liberalism as it is now is inherently anti-democratic.
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« Reply #13 on: February 14, 2024, 10:00:02 AM »
They can get a seat at the table for Lunar New Year reunion dinner if they foot the bill for everyone else.
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« Reply #14 on: February 14, 2024, 11:05:23 AM »
Saudi Arabia-Israel is a pragmatic alliance. I know the Saudis are awful, but such an alliance would be a good way to contain Iran.
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