Comment by JumpCrisscross
3 days ago
> Superficial democracy
Europe features full democracies. Its electorates chose to outsource security. That doesn’t make their democracies superficial or irrevocable.
> the US have benefited from the war in Ukraine, indeed at the expense of Europe
American oil and gas producers have benefited. Americans have not—we’re paying more for everything because of these wars. In the long run, American power has been severely degraded.
No it doesn't have "full democracy". Only Switzerland has a full democracy, in the world.
Most of (western) Europe has a bleak copy, representative democracy, where we get the representatives who are the best at advancing within a political organisation. Essentially, the worst type of yes man you can imagine.