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EDITORIAL: NO MORE DEALING WITH DICTATORS<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The war in Ukraine has demonstrated yet another tragic truth. When negotiating with dictators, trying to find mutually beneficial compromises, mistakes are made that have tragic effects. The first: a dictator has no compunction about torturing and massacring his own people – so (as Putin, Hitler, Stalin and many others have shown) he has no compunction about massacring and torturing the rest of humanity. The second: since the sole aim of a regime is self-preservation against the will of all, torture and murder are the main and most effective method, but propaganda lies (what we now call fake news), as well as religious indoctrination (as in Turkey and many Muslim countries), are becoming an even more insidious problem – because they instil doubts even in many citizens of democratic nations.<\/p>\n

The third: in Italy there is a proverb that says that “he who goes with the lame learns to limp”, and so we are forced to admit that, over the past 50 years, democracy, even in the West, mainly due to American imperialism and European neo-colonialism, is seriously wounded, violent and anti-democratic far-right movements are growing stronger, fear spreads as disinformation grows – due to the deterioration of educational institutions and the transformation of citizens (who understood their co-responsibility) into consumers (who only perceive their own individual well-being and are no longer able to see the full picture of the problems.<\/p>\n