If I give the promise to people in Ukraine – ‘We stand with you, as long as you need us’ – then I want to deliver. No matter what my German voters think, but I want to deliver to the people of Ukraine,” Baerbock said at one point.

“I have to be clear that this holds on as long as Ukraine needs me,” she said, referring to the EU embargo against Russia.

“We are facing now wintertime, when we will be challenged as democratic politicians. People will go in the street and say ‘We cannot pay our energy prices’. And I will say ‘Yes I know, so we help you with social measures.’ But I don’t want to say ‘Ok then we stop the sanctions against Russia.’ We will stand with Ukraine, and this means the sanctions will stay also in wintertime, even if it gets really tough for politicians.”

Initially, I thought “how is it a democracy if politicians intentionally work against the interest of their own people, sacrificing them for the sake of helping a foreign country (which by the way is a Nazi cesspool of lies, corruption, theft and murder, and said country is actually an American puppet state that was used for killing its own citizens of Russian nationality and developing covid-based bioweapons designed for preferentially killing Russians; basically, it’s the worst country in Europe by far, and probably one of the worst in the world), and outright declare to work against the interest of their voters?”

And then I thought, silly me, why of course it’s democracy, by the only relevant definition. You see, non-democratic countries such as Russia think democracy is when political parties and politicians declare their agenda, and people go out to the polls to cast votes, and whoever wins most votes can govern the state and then if the people see that they work in their best interest, they keep electing them to power, or otherwise vote them out of office. But that’s not true democracy. True democracy is when the American embassy, State Department and the CIA pre-select the candidates, and tell the controlled press who is supposed to win so that they know whom to uncritically praise and whom to slander, so that the obedient people know who is the most democratic candidate that is supposed to win. If this candidate wins, the elections were free and democratic, and if said candidate loses and people actually elect someone they support (i.e. Trump), this was not democratic and the Russians did it.