Only first world countries get to spend their money on infrastructure
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So, if youre in France or Canada or for that matter China, you can have generous health and educational services and build a modern infrastructure.
But if youre a Third World country or otherwise vulnerable like, say, Ukraine or Venezuela Official Washington insists that you shred your social safety net and give free reign to private investors.
If youre good and accept this free market domination, you become, by the U.S. definition, a democracy even if doing so goes against the wishes of most of your citizens. In other words, it doesnt matter what most voters want; they must accept the magic of the market to be deemed a democracy.
Thus, in todays U.S. parlance, democracy has come to mean almost the opposite of what it classically meant. Rather than rule by a majority of the people, you have rule by the market, which usually translates into rule by local oligarchs, rich foreigners and global banks.
Governments that dont follow these rules by instead shaping their societies to address the needs of average citizens are deemed not free, thus making them targets of U.S.-funded non-governmental organizations, which train activists, pay journalists and coordinate business groups to organize an opposition to get rid of these un-democratic governments.
If a leader seeks to defend his or her nations sovereignty by such means as requiring these NGOs to register as foreign agents, the offending government is accused of violating human rights and becomes a candidate for more aggressive regime change.
Currently, one of the big U.S. complaints against Russia is that it requires foreign-funded NGOs that seek to influence policy decisions to register as foreign agents. The New York Times and other Western publications have cited this 2012 law as proof that Russia has become a dictatorship, while ignoring the fact that the Russians modeled their legislation after a U.S. law known as the Foreign Agent Registration Act.
So, its okay for the U.S. to label people who are paid by foreign entities to influence U.S. policies as foreign agents and to imprison people who fail to register but not for Russia to do the same. A number of these NGOs in Russia and elsewhere also are not independent entities but instead are financed by the U.S.-funded National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and the U.S. Agency for International Development.