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From Trump to Putin, the Return and Dangers of Despotism

Summary by contrepoints.org
Some had believed with Francis Fukuyama that liberal democracy was the end of history. But history still laughs at it by seeing the rise of despotisms all over the world. There are the d'opérette soldiers who seized power in Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso to defend a population they deliver to the jihadists. There are the old totalitarian monsters who cling to their communist dreams, from Cuba to North Korea, from Maduro to Xi Jing Ping. There are bl…
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Some had believed with Francis Fukuyama that liberal democracy was the end of history. But history still laughs at it by seeing the rise of despotisms all over the world. There are the d'opérette soldiers who seized power in Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso to defend a population they deliver to the jihadists. There are the old totalitarian monsters who cling to their communist dreams, from Cuba to North Korea, from Maduro to Xi Jing Ping. There are bl…

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contrepoints.org broke the news in on Sunday, December 14, 2025.
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