The Domino Effect
In the past few months I’ve seen a lot of articles decrying the false belief in the “domino effect” that the US used to justify its war in Vietnam. A lot of people like to use hindsight to inform about the validity of a pretext for war, when there are plenty of other reasons that the war in Vietnam was a bad idea. The Domino Effect itself did have some degree of legs, but don’t tell that to critics of the war, who revile it as a completely insane idea.
Well, it turns out, as you can see depicted above, that there is at least one political system that spreads by domino effect. That political system is democracy. Empowerment is contagious! I hope all the dictators have been put on notice and are packing their things.
