Usually we are reasonably well aligned on our views
@Squidfayce so it's interesting that here we differ.
Maybe I'm playing devils advocate too much and that has gotten people offside.
From your comments above I take it that your proposed solution to Authoritarian regimes is to "bomb the fuck out of them", so invade a sovereign territory within the Western developed international framework and install a government that is in line with our political and moral values?
The world is a shit show full of authoritarian regimes and pseudo democracies and it seems like most people are just picking there sports ball team without looking at the bigger picture. The West believes, and reinforces within itself, that it's exceptional. Our foreign policy for decades has been based off this (look at Australia's use of anti dumping at the WTO then our dumping of Aluminium to protect local industries).
What I have been trying to say and what seems to be being missed is that:
YES China Russia BAD
Is there a solution, no history tells us authoritarian is the norm not the exception.
Are we morally superior so we can just demand others do as we say?
What we can affect is looking in the mirror and seeing the we have our own prejudice and misinformation that needs to be recognised.
But hey that's hard, let's just stick with the slogans "BETTER DEAD THAN RED"