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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Simon Tisdall

Joe Biden has picked a fight with tyranny. The west must hope he wins

Russian president Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping at a meeting in Beijing in February 2022
Russian president Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping at a meeting in Beijing in February 2022. Photograph: Alexei Druzhinin/AP

It was a deadly week for democracy. US president Joe Biden launched a rescue effort to save the “soul of the nation” that the dementor-in-chief, Donald Trump, AKA Lord Voldemort, is conspiring to steal.

Russia lost a great man whose titanic struggle for reform was fatally torpedoed by a pint-sized usurper named Vladimir Putin. And China was saddled with indefinite dictatorship under the dead hand of Xi Jinping.

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