Democracy in Southeastern Europe is struggling as Romania becomes the EU’s only “hybrid regime” amid rising ultranationalism, controversial political figures and ongoing protests across the region, all fuelled by Moscow and Washington.
Democracy in Southeastern Europe is struggling as Romania becomes the EU’s only “hybrid regime” amid rising ultranationalism, controversial political figures and ongoing protests across the region, all fuelled by Moscow and Washington.
Anti-democratic forces know no nation, nationalities, races or ethnic groups … Anti-democratic forces are based in small groups of extremely wealthy people who want to control the universe and become king of the world.
It has nothing to do with nations … it has everything to do with wealth and those with wealth have no allegiance to any nation … as matter of fact, they believe that nations should have allegiance to them.
The extreme concentrations of power in fewer and fewer individuals that we see in many countries is definitely one driver of global fascism.
But russian influence operations is another big driver, as are increasing poverty and general resource-stress and anxiety brought about by climate crisis and the stasis inflicted by incompetent governments which haven’t produced meaningful, beneficial change for their people in decades.