Comments by "" (@tekannon7803) on "Cohen: Putin Wants to 'Take Over' Ukraine" video.

  1. Isn't this the moment as our time to shine as the human community? Former U.S. Secretary of Defense comes across as a voice of reason in dealing with Russia and its President Putin. What I propose as the answer for solving the Ukraine crisis is this. Should we begin open discussions on the peaceful dismantling of authoritarian regimes from a humanitarian point of view? I am an artist and not a specialist in international affairs, but it doesn't take a Harvard educated lawyer to see that democratic countries and authoritarian regimes cannot exist on the same planet. There is simply too much at stake to leave the fate of an entire nation in one person's hands as is the case in Russia. The Ukraine invasion should be looked at as a watershed moment for the time we in the human family finally decide that autocratic regimes are toxic to the preservation of civilized society. I am convinced that by openly beginning serious discussions with all interested parties about peacefully dismantling authoritarian regimes, the autocratic leaders will begin to see that their day in the sun is over. No one is naïve enough to believe there will not be fits of anger and condemnation and war mongering, but we have to start with words and take it from there. There is also the mental health issue for the millions of people living in these regimes who have been weened off of thinking for themselves. We laugh at the fact that no one in those regimes has to do anything but obey orders, but that is very unhealthy for their psychic mental being and it leads to people not being able to live normally; it's a form of slavery which for us is unimaginable. there are windows of opportunity and I believe this is one of them. You only have to look down the road and if America is side-lined the world could end up being run by two or three strongmen.
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