functioning democracy, voted to abstain on the measure condemning russia. the majority of the people who live in democracies have chosen in this great ideological struggle to sit on the fence. on one level this might seem a case of national interests trumping idealism. many of these companies have economic interests that would suffer were they to cut ties with moscow. india, for example, get most of its advance weapons from russia. south africa and brazil have trade relations with russia that while are not crucial are significant. yet the idea of a grand logical crusade against autocracies leaves most developing countries very nervous. many of them have strong economic ties to china and are closely allied to other autocracies in their neighborhoods. a much better way to frame the division in the world is between countries that believe in a rules-based international order
hawkish regarding this issue. they don t want trade relations with cuba besides rand paul. rand paul believes peace through commerce, yes, let s have peace through commerce and we do have trade relations with communist china. when you negotiate a deal, julie, what criteria do you mut in place to make sure americans are successful as well as lower class and middle class cubans. you don t have an american console ate in cuba, can american businesses do business as they do in china? a lot of things have not been put in place for us to be victorious. the president says he hopes to have more of an influence on cuba s government and i think we all know in history speaks for itself, cuba isn t a nation that welcomes change, certain not directives from the united states but he says change will come to cuba. can we believe such a thing is