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Former security officials claimed that the United States had made every effort to integrate Russia and rejected allegations that the United States “tried to humiliate” the former Soviet Union.
“I think I stepped in here and did everything I could to integrate Russia into the international system, from the Clinton administration to the Bush administration, the Obama administration, and the Trump administration,” said the former Secretary of State. .. State Condoleezza Rice said at the Aspen Security Forum on Friday.
“The idea that we somehow tried to humiliate Russia tried to impose something like Versailles-that’s not true.”
Former President Bill Clinton in April claims that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin could not do anything to prevent it from invading Ukraine, and his administration “isolates, humiliates, ignores” Russian leaders. He denied that he had gone astray.
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“It’s the biggest bull load you’ve ever heard,” he said.
And Rice reiterated Clinton’s feelings, even though he admitted that the United States had an obligation to pay more attention to the international community. It may have come at the expense of Russia’s cooperation on the world stage.
“Are you really going to tell the new and democratic Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and finally Romania and the Baltic States? Oh, sorry, you have experienced this democratic revolution, you are from the Soviet Union. I left … but you’re still part of the Soviet empire, so get used to it, “she asked.
“Poles, Hungarians, etc. reminded us when we were in NATO that this wasn’t really about NATO’s role in Afghanistan for them. They one day Russia revenge. I was in NATO because I did, “she said. She further referred to Russia’s ultimate desire for her to revive the Soviet Union. “So they may have understood it better than we did.”
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Rice paid particular attention to Putin’s nationalist tendencies. Putin stems from his isolation and the “modern Rasputin” who fills the heads of Russian leaders with the concept of “dynasty, savior duty” to revive the “Russian state”.
At the same forum, former National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley said Putin had “significantly changed” over decades of power, eventually making it impossible for the United States to engage him and integrate Russia into an international organization. He emphasized that he did.
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“I think the problem was the color revolution. Putin basically decided that it was a CIA operation to overthrow and implement the government through NGOs. He would say democracy. He was anti-Russian democracy. You would say it’s a democratic government. It was a rehearsal of the interaction with Russia. ” “And at that point we think we lost him.”