[BobL]

...and the West claims that Russia is not free. Go figure!

[fluorescence]

It’s interesting to ponder how much longer a country that used to be considered part of the “free world” can continue to be thought so when its citizens no longer have basic rights.
What gives a place like Australia the moral authority to say anything about what happens in Russia or China or Iran, let alone impose sanctions on them? How far do they have to go before they start being grouped with the countries that share their values, rather than with the liberal democracies that they no longer resemble?