A simple analogy.
I ran out of beer (oil/gas), I'm taking your beer.
If you don't give up your beer then you are not advocating democracy.
If you don't allow me (US) to print propaganda in your home news paper (NGO) about my beer in your house, then your are evil.
If you insist on charging me then don't you dare charge me market value (Ukraine / Georgia), or you are not conforming to human rights.
And if you somehow force me to pay market value, then let us all use the money that I am printing, then this is acceptable (dollar hegemony).
Next, I will go into your home, and pay your daughter (Yukos) and son (Yeltsin), and wife some cash (well below market value), and convince them to give me your beer by sneaking it out the window at night (transfer pricing).
This is absolutely about democracy, but specifically it's really about American democracy. Other democracies are expendable and are only acceptable if they subsidize the US democracy and economy.
Folks, this is the US.
We pissed away all our own beer, now we look at our neighbors and see their beer as ours.
Now if some other country came to America, and went into our refrigerator and took our beer, you had better believe there would be a nuclear war. And when some other country (China) uses an NGO to give money to our president (Clinton), you bet your life we would sound the alarms. But when we do the same, well, it's ok, we are Americans. When we do it to them, it's called human rights & democracy, when they do it to us, we stop them with American RICO laws by the IRS and FBI.
So far, the last 6 years have proven that our double standards and hypocrisy are all collapsing. Nothing is working, not one distorted plan coming out of DC to annex our neighbor's beer (Russia, Iraq, Venezuela, Iran) is working.
Honestly, I think nukes will keep America at bay. Nukes will keep America's hands out of other's refrigerators and keep America in her corner. Nukes will keep the world safe. Because America will think twice about taking her neighbor's beer if that neighbor has nukes. America, go make your own beer. Stop with the NGO activity, stop with the fairy tales that Iraq has wmd, or Saddam did 9/11. Get to work America, and make your own damn beer.
I write these words because Sen. John McCain says the US is being held hostage because we are out of beer and nobody wants to gift us more. I say the world is held hostage because America is eying beer that she never paid for.