You do have trouble recognizing authoritarian regimes, don’t you? You left out the Zelensky regime, virtually every EU government, Canada, and, of course, the Biden government. Then there are all the 3rd world and “emerging” kleptocratic autocracies. Do you have a well sourced spread sheet demonstrating that the RF is less free than some or all of Zelensky’s Ukraine? Biden’s US? Trudeau’s Canada? EU? Somehow I think you don’t. Don’t try to palm off someone else’s list. For example, Freedom House is in the tank for the left and is horrified by January 6. No, provide your own list of criteria, weightings, and the evidence behind them.
“It saddens me” we have so many trolls here.
I am concerned foremost with authoritarian regimes which launch unprovoked invasions of neighboring countries, grab territory, commit war atrocities, and rattle nukes.
At present, there is only a single country fitting that description, and they have nukes targeting American cities.
I am thus not concerned with any alleged venality of other countries you might care to mention. You are attempting to distract us from the crimes of the one truly evil empire threatening Western civilization.
Regards,