This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Glavin: The West's greedy and unholy bargain with dictatorships is unravelling New World Disorder: By the time Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his full-on war of conquest in Ukraine last February, democracy was already in the 17th year of its global retreat Photo by Sergei Savostyanov/SPUTNIK/AFP Article content It’s hard to put your finger on exactly when and where it was that democracy’s global eclipse began, but a darkness has been encircling the world throughout the 21st century. While the current insurrection in Iran is cause for some hope,...