Russia's War Against Ukraine
OP-ED
Anne Applebaum: Taking democracy for granted
Ukrainian soldiers man the frontline outside the eastern Ukrainian city of Debaltseve, Donetsk region, on Dec. 24,2014.
Imagine that you are a mother of a very poor family in Udaipur, India, and that you want to have your children immunized. But now imagine - as the economist Esther Duflo once demanded of a TED audience - that because you are very poor, you have an infinite number of small things to do, from fetching water to cooking food from scratch to running a small shop. In order to get your child immunized, you have to walk several kilometers to a health center that turns out to be closed. Would you bother to return again? Probably not.
