I think the previous president of Estonia, Ilves, said it best. He said that on the internet, there’s no geopolitical neighbors. It’s not determined by geology or geographics. He said that it is the shared values that binds us together. So, people who share democratic values are neighbors because everything travels on the speed of light anyway, right? And people who are autocracies that are attacking the democratic polities, well, they also share their playbooks together between them. So, it’s not a geographic neighborhood. This is the value, a shared value neighborhood.

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