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vryadliКроме, конечно, масштаба технических-экономических возможностей.
Во-первых, что в лицемерии, кровавости и долгосрочной вредоносности внешней политики между США, Украиной и РФ нету сколь-нить существенной разницы.
Во-вторых, мое положетиельное отношение к Бушу младшему получило еще одно подтвержение
В-третих (хотя может быть это в-первых-с-половиной плюс во-вторых-с-половиной), подавляющее большинство американских полтитиков и журналистов ни честностью, ни совестью его не напоминают (хотя автор статьи возможно как раз исключение).
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/george-bush-iraq-war-crime/?utm_source=one-signal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2022-05-20
Making a critique of the regime of Russian president Vladimir Putin, Bush said, “The result is an absence of checks and balances in Russia, and the decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq.” He then paused, scrunched his beady eyes tight like a child working out a difficult math problem, and corrected himself, “I mean of Ukraine.”
Still looking confused Bush muttered, “Iraq, too—anyway.”
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After the end of the Cold War, the United States truly had an opportunity to create a more stable world order, one that rested on international law and cooperation. Instead, the American ruling class became intoxicated by a triumphalism that led to two decades of arrogant flouting of diplomacy and the international order, up to and including launching preemptive wars.
In invading Ukraine under a spurious pretext of fighting for human rights, Putin is simply copying the script written by the United States. Comparisons between the invasion of Iraq and the invasion of Ukraine are frowned on in the more respectable precincts of American politics. But they have an undeniable aptness. This has been certified in an accidental moment of truth-telling by no less an expert than George W. Bush
Во-первых, что в лицемерии, кровавости и долгосрочной вредоносности внешней политики между США, Украиной и РФ нету сколь-нить существенной разницы.
Во-вторых, мое положетиельное отношение к Бушу младшему получило еще одно подтвержение
В-третих (хотя может быть это в-первых-с-половиной плюс во-вторых-с-половиной), подавляющее большинство американских полтитиков и журналистов ни честностью, ни совестью его не напоминают (хотя автор статьи возможно как раз исключение).
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/george-bush-iraq-war-crime/?utm_source=one-signal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2022-05-20
Making a critique of the regime of Russian president Vladimir Putin, Bush said, “The result is an absence of checks and balances in Russia, and the decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq.” He then paused, scrunched his beady eyes tight like a child working out a difficult math problem, and corrected himself, “I mean of Ukraine.”
Still looking confused Bush muttered, “Iraq, too—anyway.”
............
After the end of the Cold War, the United States truly had an opportunity to create a more stable world order, one that rested on international law and cooperation. Instead, the American ruling class became intoxicated by a triumphalism that led to two decades of arrogant flouting of diplomacy and the international order, up to and including launching preemptive wars.
In invading Ukraine under a spurious pretext of fighting for human rights, Putin is simply copying the script written by the United States. Comparisons between the invasion of Iraq and the invasion of Ukraine are frowned on in the more respectable precincts of American politics. But they have an undeniable aptness. This has been certified in an accidental moment of truth-telling by no less an expert than George W. Bush
