я понимаю, почему ты так говоришь сейчас.
но у тебя эмоциональная оценка. а мершмайер, как учёный изучает
определенную проблему. а для этого ему приходится и отстраниться и быть
посторонним, чтобы стать независимым наблюдателем, который может делать
объективные выводы.
вот что он сказал про либерализм:
as I said in the first lecture my views on liberal democracy at home are
fundamentally different than my views on liberal democracy abroad. I
thank my lucky stars I was born in the United States which is a liberal
democracy and I think all things considered I prefer to live in a
liberal democracy than any other form of political system any other kind
of political system but my argument is when you take it abroad it leads
to all sorts of problems.
and on the spheres of influences:
The Monroe Doctrine basically says that the United States owns the
Western Hemisphere and no distant great power be it from Europe or be it
from Asia is allowed to move military forces into the Western Hemisphere
and form a military alliance with a country in our hemisphere. The
Monroe Doctrine which has not gone away, right. The Monroe Doctrine is
all about spheres of influence. It says the Western Hemisphere is our
sphere of influence. Do you think in 25 years if China decides to form a
military alliance with Canada or Mexico and station a couple Chinese
divisions in Vancouver and Toronto that we're not gonna go ballistic?
The Cuban Missile Crisis the idea that the Soviets were putting missiles
in Cuba was completely antithetical to us. And then when they talked
about building a naval base at Cienfuegos, we almost blew another
gasket. The Soviets are not allowed in the Western Hemisphere! Why?
Because it's an American sphere of influence. Why? because it's our
backyard. Well if you're Vladimir Putin or any Russian leader, the idea
that NATO is going to be allowed to drive right up to your border - it's
not gonna happen. it's just not gonna happen.
you know, people will say - wow, John, don't you understand that the
Ukrainians are free to choose their own foreign policy? you often hear
this argument - we were talking about this yesterday - the Ukrainians
are free to choose their own foreign policy, their sovereign state, this
is not a decision the Russians can make for them.
my view is that's a very dangerous way of thinking about international
politics. Ukraine is not a sovereign state when it comes to this issue.
the Russians are not going to tolerate them form an alliance with NATO,
right. And if Ukraine behaves like it is a sovereign state, right, it's
going to get itself into a well of a lot of trouble. this is what
happened to Castro.
do you think the United States believed during the Cold War and even
after the Cold War the Cuba had the right as a sovereign state to form
an alliance with any state that it chose to? we didn't think that for
one second. we did not think that for one second and we went to great
lengths to kill Castro and to strangle Cuba because Castro thought that
he, like Ukrainians, thought had the right to form an alliance with just
any state. when you're dealing with great powers this is another
election(?).
great powers are ruthless. in that states is one of the most ruthless
great powers in modern history, that you cannot underestimate how
ruthless the United States is. this is all covered up in the textbooks
in the classes that we take growing up, right. because we hate this is
all part of nationalism. nationalism is all about creating myths about
how wonderful your country is. right it's America right or wrong - we
never do anything wrong. right. if you really look carefully at how the
United States is operated over time it's really amazing how ruthless we
have been and the British the same is true of them as well. but we cover
it up,
so I'm just saying if you're if you're Ukraine and you're living next to
a powerful state like Russia or you're Cuban and you're living next to a
very powerful state like the United States, you should be very very
careful because this is like sleeping in bed with an elephant. if that
elephant rolls over on top of you, you're dead, right. so you got to be
very careful.
am I happy about the fact that this is the way the world works? no, I'm
not. but it is the way the world works for better or for worse [Applause]
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