[..] To those triumphalists who insist that Russia is not entitled to any “sphere of influence,” we answer that the issue is not nineteenth-century imperialism but a reasonable zone of security on its borders free of US or NATO military power—in Ukraine and Georgia, to take the most pressing examples. And we ask: If the United States is entitled to such zones of security not only in Canada and Mexico but throughout the Western Hemisphere, according to Washington’s Monroe Doctrine, why is not Russia so entitled regarding its neighbors? (To those who answer that any country that formally qualifies has a right to NATO membership, we say, no, NATO is a security organization, not a charity or the AARP, and indiscriminate NATO expansion has not truly enhanced any nation’s security but only discouraged diplomacy, as the Ukrainian crisis demonstrates.) [..]
Stephen F. Cohen
vara bungas: Koens galvenais ASV ruslandferštejers un viņa uzskati nav jaunums, bet interesanti, ka gan viņš, gan kremlins Igors Jurgens izmanto vienus un tos pašus argumentus.
PS AARP – American Association of Retired Persons ir patērētāju biedrības ASV analogs.
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