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Autocratic Cooperation and Tactics
🌐Autocratic regimes like China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela, and North Korea are increasingly cooperating economically, politically, and militarily against liberal democracies, despite their ideological differences.
🔒Autocrats operate with impunity, using total control, propaganda, and legal changes to isolate people, break up civic activism, and maintain power without checks, rule of law, or transparency.
Information Warfare and Global Influence
🎭Autocrats use money and information to promote far-right, far-left, separatism, and extremism in democracies, often through Russian-backed campaigns in Europe and the Czech Republic.
🌍Autocratic regimes are waging daily political warfare against democracies, competing globally in Africa and South America for power, influence, resources, and geography.
Western Response and Vulnerabilities
🔇The US lacks a strategic counteroffensive against Russian and Chinese autocratic narratives, with Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty struggling to counter autocratic propaganda effectively.
💰Western institutions failed to protect against Russia's kleptocratic regime, which came to power using Western financial institutions, real estate transactions, and regulators looking the other way.
The Offshore Economy and Authoritarianism
🏦The offshore economy, or "moneyland," involves anonymous shell companies and tax havens, hiding an estimated 8-10% of global GDP, mostly stolen from countries like Angola, Zimbabwe, Russia, and Kazakhstan.
🕵️The offshore economy is linked to the rise of authoritarianism and decline of liberal democracy, with autocrats using secrecy to enrich themselves, stay in power, and spread their influence globally.