The Liberal Dictatorship
Welcome to the age of the Liberal dictatorship. Liberalism stands for freedom and tolerance, whereas dictatorship cannot stand dissent. They do not and cannot go hand in hand, so we are led to believe. As the words "Liberal" and "dictatorship" are antonyms, putting them together amounts to an oxymoron. And yet, since February 2022, we have been witnessing the rise of the Liberal dictatorship, consisting of the US and its allies banding together to violently squash any attempts to challenge their vision of the world and upend the liberal world order. When Putin ordered his troops to invade Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the US and 36 other industrial democracies unleashed an unprecedented package of economic sanctions against Russia. In a span of ten days, among other things, they froze Russian's central bank reserves, expelled its banks from the global financial system, shut it off from the debt market, and cut off high-tech exports. In one stroke, the Libera