March 28—The United States is hosting its second “Submit for Democracy” event, drawing ridicule for the composition of its guest list, the overwhelming hypocrisy permeating the discussions, and the wild contortions required to present the word “democracy” as meaning, in the words of Lewis Carroll in his Through the Looking Glass, “just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.” Samantha Power will lecture attendees on the “rule of law.” Antony Blinken will hold an event with President Zelenskyy to explain why the war must go on (expressing this sentiment through the rejection of any actual means of achieving peace). Deputy U.S. Attorney General Lisa Monaco spoke about efforts to prevent the more than one hundred million U.S. users of Tiktok from continuing to communicate via the platform. An event on the internet will claim that democracies must “stand against the misuse of technology to repress, control, divide, and disenfranchise” — as the Twitter Files have shown the U.S. to have done. The Netherlands, a member of the European Union that has banned RT and Sputnik, will lead an event on how “freedom of expression and media freedom are a precondition for a well-functioning democracy and a free society.”