And yet democracy resistance does have an international character.
This comes from the generic element within it, which is resentment
against the main actor behind democracy promotion the West. Not all
criticism of the West is antidemocratic, but the fight against democracy
promotion is usually anti-Western. At its ideological core, what is being called “autocracy promotion” is really nothing but anti-Americanism and anti-Europeanism. Again, Putin’s Russia can serve as a case
in point. Russian democracy resistance seeks to claim the high moral
ground by “exposing” Western democracy promotion as covert imperialism, but Russian spokespeople do not stop there. They also like to use
postmodernist language to present Russia as a champion of multiculturalism and multipolarity against Western attempts to achieve singlehanded predominance.