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Många experter har varnat för Natos expansion. Varför lyssnade inte politikerna?
Leading experts warned NATO expansion would lead to conflict. Why did no one listen?
From Kennan to Kissinger, Western foreign-policy thinkers saw NATO’s eastward march was a dangerous game
Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, one of the most widely regarded American strategic thinkers of all time, said in a 2014 op-ed that “Ukraine should not join NATO.” This is because it would make Ukraine a theater in an East-West confrontation. He said that “to treat Ukraine as part of an East-West confrontation would scuttle for decades any prospect to bring Russia and the West – especially Russia and Europe – into a cooperative international system.”
https://www.rt.com/news/551225-nato-expansion-lead-conflict/
Kissinger är alltid läsvärd, men detta är givetvis ett selektivt citerande av Kissinger. Från samma artikel som RT använder, om man nu vill citera selektivt åt andra hållet:
"Russia must accept that to try to force Ukraine into a satellite status, and thereby move Russia’s borders again, would doom Moscow to repeat its history of self-fulfilling cycles of reciprocal pressures with Europe and the United States."
"Putin should come to realize that, whatever his grievances, a policy of military impositions would produce another Cold War."
"Ukraine should have the right to choose freely its economic and political associations, including with Europe."
"That nation leaves no doubt about its fierce independence and cooperates with the West in most fields but carefully avoids institutional hostility toward Russia."
"It is incompatible with the rules of the existing world order for Russia to annex Crimea."
