For political scientist Yascha Mounk, the pandemic unleashed an ideological competition between democracies and autocracies, giving people some options. But for democracy to remain strong in the 21st century, Mounk tells Ian Bremmer that "it's not enough to wax poetic about our beautiful values or to rely on the idea that somehow, our system has always proven strong in the past, so it's going to do so again." We need to double down on ensuring that the system delivers so citizens can keep saying that they'd rather be like the US or Germany than like Russia or China.
Does Putin have an off-ramp? No, says former Finnish PM Alexander Stubb who knows a thing or two about this stuff as he helped broker a cease-fire between Russia and Georgia in 2008 about Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine. "In this particular case, we are beyond the point of no return," he tells Ian Bremmer. "The only thing that he understands is power and force, I'm afraid. He's not gonna back down."
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Russia's invasion of Ukraine has pushed long-neutral Finland into openly embracing NATO, which would not go down well in Moscow. Still, former PM Alexander Stubb tells Ian Bremmer that "we Finns are pretty calm, cool and collected" and that the response to Vladimir Putin should be that we understand your issues, but "we are a sovereign, independent nation-state and take our own security [and] political decisions."