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DavidlikesPeace t1_j28xash wrote

Reply to comment by dissentrix in Iranian author said sentenced to death for giving interview to Israeli TV channel by essential_projection

It's a big World and it's quite easy to despair. However, it is worthwhile noting geopolitical trends.

  1. there are also plenty of decent regions (usually quiet and not on the news). Latin America and much of Africa are having comparably peaceful eras. More democracies exist than at any other time in world history; and

  2. the MENA region includes Tunisia and Yemen (and probably also Sudan and Mali). OP was right to note this authoritarian regional problem. Aside from China, the MENA is the most non-democratic region in the world; and

  3. For better or worse though, the largest tyranny in Europe also enabled that problem. As Russia declines as it loses the war in Ukraine, many MENA tyrants will lose their biggest ally.

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Zeusnexus t1_j2aew8z wrote

I wouldn't put Mali in there. It's more of a sub Saharan nation. Unsure about Sudan.

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