PDA

View Full Version : Trump’s Russia adviser criticizes U.S. for ‘hypocritical focus on democratization’




AngryCanadian
07-08-2016, 11:37 AM
Hillary Fans Go Ballistic!

Trump’s Russia adviser criticizes U.S. for ‘hypocritical focus on democratization’ (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/trumps-russia-adviser-criticizes-us-for-hypocritical-focus-on-democratization/2016/07/07/804a3d60-4380-11e6-a76d-3550dba926ac_story.html?postshare=2511467931527039&tid=ss_tw#comments)


An American foreign-policy adviser to Donald Trump chided the United States on Thursday for an “often-hypocritical focus on democratization, inequality, corruption and regime change” in its dealings with Russia, China and Central Asia.

Carter Page, an energy executive tapped by the presumptive Republican nominee’s campaign for his business experience in the former Soviet Union, told students and journalists gathered in a Moscow lecture hall that Washington had missed opportunities to work with leaders such as Russia’s Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping because it had ignored principles of “respect, equality and mutual benefit.”

Page’s remarks put him, like Trump, at sharp odds with the Obama administration and traditional Republican policy circles, which have viewed Russia in more adversarial terms over the war in Syria, the conflict in Ukraine and other issues. The bilateral relationship has soured to Cold War-era levels in recent years.

Zippyjuan
07-08-2016, 12:25 PM
Maybe we should promote more corruption and centrally controlled governments and ignore rights. Be more like Russia and China.

openfire
07-08-2016, 03:11 PM
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xIZ587vZ4Q8/UIxGBcyZCII/AAAAAAAAI0Q/tYwrWfCTyak/s320/democracy+2.jpg

AZJoe
07-08-2016, 07:03 PM
Not too familiar with Carter Page, but these observations are spot on. Non-interventionist. Sound like Dr. Paul.:


[Page] chided the United States on Thursday for an “often-hypocritical focus on democratization, inequality, corruption and regime change”. … Washington … ignored principles of “respect, equality and mutual benefit.” …

Page … has regularly criticized U.S. intervention … In one article for Global Policy Journal, he wrote, “From U.S. policies toward Russia to Iran to China, sanctimonious expressions of moral superiority stand at the root of many problems seen worldwide today.”

Page wrote that the war in eastern Ukraine was “precipitated by U.S. meddling in the Maidan revolution,” …



http://media.virbcdn.com/cdn_images/resize_1024x1365/4f/ContentImage-3468-243899-Ron_Paul_Rand_Paul_Non_Intervention_Is_Not_Isolati onism_Small.png

silverhandorder
07-08-2016, 07:24 PM
Maybe we should promote more corruption and centrally controlled governments and ignore rights. Be more like Russia and China.

It's not either or.

Also we are good at ignoring track records when it suits us.

RandallFan
07-08-2016, 07:29 PM
Don't topple Jinping, Putin & arab leaders over quasi-democracy.