German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has sharply criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin's interview with a right-wing US talk show host. During a visit to the US capital on Friday, Scholz said that it was an interview "that honestly only mocks what real actions have been done by Russia in Ukraine and tells a completely absurd story about the cause of this war." But "there is a very clear cause," Scholz stressed, namely the Kremlin leader's desire to annex part of Ukraine. "And all the stories that
  • brain_in_a_box@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    Furthermore both China and Russia have dictatorship governments, where there is less freedom.

    Russia, sure, but I’ve yet to see someone provide a definition of dictatorship that would apply to China but not also a lot of western “democratic” nations.

    the freedom in those countries is measurably and proven worse

    Show your work.

    Also, I’m not sure why you think Russia is communist; the cold war ended 35 years ago.

    • stratosfear@lemmy.sdf.org
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      9 months ago

      I just assumed Russia was still communist in some way. But yes I’ve done a good amount of reading from this conversation as a whole.

      Regarding “my work,” there are countless government independent organizations that index freedom across the world, which I assume you are aware of. Nearly all (or all) of them rank Russia and China lower than “the western world.” The US of course is nowhere near the top, but it’s above China and Russia…

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_freedom_indices