In Tokyo, recently NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg warned "Beijing and Moscow are leading an authoritarian pushback against the international rules-based order. What is happening in Europe today could happen in East Asia tomorrow..." NATO's world view is simple. The world is divided between two kinds of states. Those that defend something called a "rules-based international order," called democracies, and those who don't know what on earth they're talking about, called authoritarians. The remedy for this unfortunate condition is of course, always more NATO.