China, Russia, North Korea, this is a short list of countries whose leaders are undeniable monsters.
To understand this column well, let’s define the word “monster”. He is a person who not only arouses indignation, but, above all, arouses fear with his cruelty and perversion. The beast also causes terror, disgust and contempt. Ironically, the beast in politics can be admired by his supporters.
Added to this list of names is a subcategory of leaders in the West, who shamelessly despise democracy. Trump, of course, who in one term as President of the United States has succeeded in polluting democratic culture outside his country.
Consider Boris Johnson, who was forced to step down as British Prime Minister this summer and is seriously considering returning to power this week.
But there is worse. Viktor Orban, Prime Minister of Hungary, rides the new wave of xenophobic populism and fascism while inspiring other European countries that once lived under Soviet rule until the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Secularism is forbidden
Perhaps most problematic is Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the suspicious defender of Islam, who has reimposed the veil in the country, ignoring the secularism that Kemal Ataturk established in Turkey a hundred years ago.
But back to our monsters. First of all, how could you not be stunned to see CCP delegates during the 20e The conference that ended last weekend with the coronation of Xi Jinping?
It was enough to notice the gathering of party members lined up like orange cones along a highway.
Their hardness was almost corpse. They applauded as they stared into space like articulated dolls. It was the most striking picture of this country, the most populous in the world, which is now on the verge of swallowing Taiwan in the face of the political paralysis of the West.
Xi Jinping was reappointed for a third presidential term, which is unprecedented. He would now have more power than Mao Zedong knew and would have the power of life or death over every Chinese citizen.
delirium
What can we say more about Putin? He has imposed on his poor people a criminal war, and he is using his people, or rather those who have not fled, as cannon fodder. In his mystical and nationalist delirium, this monster never stops killing, torturing and burying the Ukrainian people with near-total impunity.
As for North Korea, it is a country escaping from rational categories. A country whose fictitious political system is impossible to define and whose supreme leader escapes any attempt to classify psychiatry.
Kim Jong Un enjoys his nuclear warheads and his oppressed people live in constant terror. The majority suffer from malnutrition and poor care and are indoctrinated without the possibility of rebellion. It is a prison state isolated from the rest of the planet.
These monsters do not care about our occasional reproach, we who depend on them, because, as we know, the economy is supposed to lead the world…
