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Eternal flame of democracy is extinguished due to lack of gas in Brasilia monument
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I'm sensing a kind of allegory in the "Eternal Flame of Democracy" persisting only when you have access to cheap fossil fuels.
That's a shitty allegory then. Fossil fuels are usually used to prop up dictatorships. Maybe it's time to switch that thing to a renewable source?
The fossil US/UK based fuel industry has used regional dictatorship to secure supply lines into oil rich nations, certainly. But the 1950s democracies of the Middle East and Latin America didn't just fall over on their own. The Dulles to Schlesinger CIA was instrumental in propping up energy industry friendly military governments around the world.
Only if we can project our extraterritorial military power efficiently this way.