things countries need to do in modern age. that s case made by rising ato becies and authoritarian governments around the world, most loudly by russia and china. president biden trying to be loudest voice against authoritarians in the world and biggest example why the authoritarian model is wrong and not as good as democracy at delivering for its people. the problem with this is we do actually need to be a good example of governing ourselves in order to win this argument. our democratic system of government actually does have to do stuff that s good for the country in order to win this argument in the world and that is not necessarily happening right now. here s now national security adviser jake sullivan put it at white house briefing after president biden made call to the president of ukraine.