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cogman10today at 12:22 PM2 repliesview on HN

Yes. Dictatorships suck, but what sucks more is a civil war powered by foreign governments doing a proxy war.

Syria is the prime example of this. A major reason for the civilian slaughter was foreign intervention trying regime change.


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JumpCrisscrosstoday at 12:26 PM

> Dictatorships suck, but what sucks more is a civil war powered by foreign governments doing a proxy war

It's a macabre study. But one could honestly argue that several countries in the latter category's populations are better off than North Korea's.

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baxtrtoday at 12:38 PM

> Dictatorships suck, but what sucks more is a civil war powered by foreign governments doing a proxy war.

Are you sure about this part?

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