Just a comment:
Democracy is not a threat to tyrants because it can be faked.
It can be red flagged into voting for tyranny.
Independence is the biggest threat to oppression.
Wrong.
Democracy and tyranny are the same thing.
Freedom is not a universal value.
Foreign policy of most Western countries has programmed us to believe it is. But, it is not.
Power is the universal value. Those that believe that freedom is are wrong.
History has shown us that, time and time again, but we refuse to learn the lessons of History.