Sputnik International
By Daria Bedenko
December 20, 2021
Last month, the United States was estimated by the Stockholm-based International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance as being among the “backsliding democracies”, with the think tank noting that Washington has fallen “victim to authoritarian tendencies itself”.
The US is on the verge of a civil war, having already passed the so-called phases of “pre-insurgency” and “incipient conflict”, argues Barbara F Walter, a member of a CIA task force advisory panel designed to assess political instability in the world, according to seve