"Faux Democracy" depends on your definition of "our Democracy".
What Democrats mean by "Democracy" is pretty much the same thing communists mean by, for example, "Peoples Democratic Republic of Upper Slobistan."
"Democracy" is what the U.S. has had in nearly all our big cities for around 100 years -- single party, top down rule by elites who answer to nobody except even higher-up elites.
Indeed, why do you think our Democrats were first called "Democratics"?
It was a mocking reference by the old Federalists to Thomas Jefferson's support for the "Democratic" French Revolution, and it's use of Joseph Guillotin's latest invention for spilling "the blood of tyrants".
Jeffersonians liked the word, "Democratics", adopted it and even called themselves "The Democracy".
So, by those standards, we"re not a "faux democracy", we're the real thing.
What we're not so much any more is a constitutionally defined & constrained law-abiding republic, and that's a shame.
As for our moral authority, we have plenty of moral authority to help Ukrainians kill orcs -- the same moral authority as hunters shooting rabid dogs, so that's not an issue.
But if we stand by and let orcs win & rule over Ukraine, then that will be a moral issue similar to 1938-39 in Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland.
We will not like the results, general.
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