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Dear Indians, don't feel offended when India is now being compared to Russia, Iran and North Korea. Unfortunately, it is heading in that direction. If you normalise crackdowns on protests in a democracy, you allow that democracy to slip away. And remember, democracy is not the norm, nor is it a given. You need to fight for it. The world is turning towards populism, authoritarianism and dictatorship. It looks like you're next.

Trump gave Putin a birthday gift; I am not exaggerating, but I think Trump would likely be proud of Hitler, too. Dmitry Medvedev reacted to this gift by stating that Americans traveling to Russia should be arrested more often. Trump demonstrated great weakness—America's weakness. I wouldn't be surprised if America joined Russia in bombing Ukraine tomorrow; judging by today's events, nothing would surprise me anymore. The United States and Russia are guarantors of the Budapest Memorandum. Now I understand why Iran does not want to give up its nuclear weapons: because sanctions against anyone who might attack Iran in the future simply won't be imposed—they won't be implemented, just as they weren't against Russia. Therefore, Iran is fully justified in pointing to the example of Ukraine. Meanwhile, Russia no longer hides the fact that the money will go to aid Iran, whose missiles will be fired at American bases. It is also worth noting that Iran, which refuses to give up its nuclear weapons, is bombed far less frequently than Ukraine, which did give up its nuclear weapons.,,, х0х0ссу

The reform they need is the Swiss system which I define as: representative democracy+real direct democracy (not California&#39;s wishy-washy stuff)+many more very small states (in proportion to population India would have about 365 states, each assuming all the responsibilities it feels is capable of assuming given its tax receipts, because they are small, small states they do not have the resources to assume major responsibilities like defense of the federaion, foreign afffairs, criminal law, major infrastructure, federal taxation, customs and duties, fundamental rights. The municipalities delegate to their state responsibilities they do no want to assume, like education laws (but administer the schools), catons (states) and municipalities collect approximately 70% of all taxes.<br>Because each state is small the system separate etnicity and religion from government; two states who might have same language, culture and religion are as separated from each other as they are from states that have nothing in common other than belonging to the Indian federation.<br><br>If India adopted the Swiss system, or better, it would leapfrog all other nations, includy China and the US and all others, just like Switzerland has done in spite of having only as natural resource lots of water and beautiful nature, but India has that and more. But the Swiss system will never come to India, or the US, or Canada, etc., if the people of India wait for politicians to take the initiative; the Swiss people took to the streets in the 1800s, forgot their division into Germans, French, Italian, Romansch, Catholics, Protestants and demande the system be changed, particularly giving the people final decision making power over any law they choose to decide upon and changes to the cobstitution. There is a lot more about the Swisa system Indians and the whole World need to know about.