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Former security officials insist the United States did its best to integrate Russia, dismissing allegations that America “tried to humiliate” the former Soviet Union.
“I’m going to get out of here and say I think everyone from the Clinton administration to the Bush administration, to the Obama administration, to the Trump administration did everything they could to try Integration of Russia into the international systemFormer Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday at the Aspen Security Forum.
“The idea that we somehow tried to humiliate Russia, we tried to impose a kind similar to Versailles – this is not true.”
previous president Bill Clinton insisted in April He could have done nothing to stop Russian President Vladimir Putin from invading Ukraine and denied that his administration had gone out of its way to “isolate, humiliate or ignore” the Russian leader.
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“This is the biggest load of bull you’ll ever hear,” he said.
Rice echoed Clinton’s sentiments, even while acknowledging that America has a duty to care more about the international community, which may come at the expense of Russian cooperation on the world stage.
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Global Business Center and Director of Economics Condoleezza Rice during the game against Wake Forest. Stanford, California.
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“Are you really going to say to the new democratic Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and eventually in Romania, the Baltic states – oh, sorry, you went through this democratic revolution, you broke away from the Soviet Union … but you are still part of the Soviet empire, so you get used to on that?” she asked.
“It turns out that the Poles, the Hungarians and others, they were reminding us when we were in NATO that this wasn’t actually about NATO’s role in Afghanistan for them – they were in NATO because they Russia will one day be vengeful“So perhaps they understood it better than we did,” she added, referring to Russia’s eventual desire to revive the Soviet Union.
Rice specifically drew attention to Putin’s nationalist tendencies, which she attributed to his isolation and the “modern Rasputin” that would fill the Russian leader’s head with notions of “messian family duty” to revive the “Russian nation.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin has tried to silence the non-state media. (Yuri Kochetkov/Photo gathered via AP)
(Yuri Kochetkov/Photo gathered via AP)
In the same previous forum National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley emphasized that Putin had “changed a lot” during his decades in power, eventually making it impossible for the United States to deal with him and integrating Russia into international institutions.
“I would say what the problem was the color revolutions, which Putin decided was basically a CIA operation working through NGOs to bring down governments and put them in their place — we could say democratic, he could say democratic governments that were anti-Russian, and that It was a rehearsal of what we were going to do with Russia.” “And I think we lost him at that point.”
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