To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
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Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.
We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.
Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.
It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.
Dictators are allergic to reform, and they are cunning survivors. They will do whatever it takes to preserve their power and wealth, no matter how much blood ends up on their hands. They are master deceivers and talented manipulators who cannot be trusted to change.
Peace should be understood in a human way - in a broad social, political and economic way. Peace is threatened by unjust economic, social and political order, absence of democracy, environmental degradation and absence of human rights.
Dictators, unlike Democrats, depend on a small coterie to sustain their power. These backers, generally drawn from the military, the senior civil service, and family or clan members, have a synergistic relationship with their dictator. The dictator delivers opportunities for them to become rich, and they protect him from being overthrown.
Dictators are interesting, no?
To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.
The transition from dictatorship to democracy is always very difficult, and if you read a history of any country that went through this, it wasn't easy. And, you know, you don't end dictatorship one day and next day you have fully fledged democracy.
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