{"id":12491,"date":"2015-09-22T06:09:50","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T11:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12491"},"modified":"2015-09-22T06:09:50","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T11:09:50","slug":"americas-latest-foreign-policy-fiascos-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12491","title":{"rendered":"America’s Latest Foreign Policy Fiascos, Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"
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America’s Latest Foreign Policy Fiascos, Part I<\/a><\/h3>\n

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Some 15 months ago I published a piece onAmerican Foreign Policy Fiascos<\/a>, in which I summarized the significant negative progress that has been achieved through American involvement in Afghanistan, Iraq and Georgia, among others, and then went on to boldly predict that the Ukraine is likewise going to turn out to be another American foreign policy fiasco. Since then it certainly has turned into one.<\/p>\n

US meddling in the Ukraine has produced none of the results it was intended to produce:<\/p>\n

\u2022 It didn’t isolate Russia internationally
\n\u2022 It didn’t destroy Russia’s economy
\n\u2022 It didn’t pull Russia into a futile, unpopular, bloody conflict
\n\u2022 It didn’t produce regime change within Russia
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\nJust the opposite:<\/p>\n

\u2022 It prompted Russia, China and several other countries to opt for closer economic and security ties
\n\u2022 It motivated Russia to think seriously about import replacement, giving its domestic economy a big boost
\n\u2022 It made the US and NATO part to a bloody conflict in Eastern Ukraine while Russia has steadfastly stood on the sidelines providing humanitarian aid
\n\u2022 It caused Russia’s \u201cnonsystemic opposition\u201d\u2014so called because it can never garner enough votes to win any election anywhere\u2014which has been financed by American NGOs and transnational oligarchs like Soros, Khodorkovsky and others, to pretty much fade from the Russian political scene altogether, all the while complaining bitterly about the horrible Russian people who don’t understand them and the lack of imported French cheeses, not to mention the p\u00e2t\u00e9s; please, don’t get them started on the p\u00e2t\u00e9s\u2014that would be simply too cruel.<\/p>\n

And then here are some bonus points:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 It has increased the popularity of Russia’s government, and Vladimir Putin personally while making the average Russian greatly dislike the US in particular, and mistrust the West in general
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…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n

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