2022年3月4日金曜日

“You fell in love with the wrong guy..”

 国外交部、責任転嫁は「非常に卑劣」 米紙ウクライナ関連報道を批判

 新華社 2022/03/04 00:09

答えになっていないように思うが、引用している記事は面白い。

 OPINION

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN


This Is Putin’s War. But America and NATO Aren’t Innocent Bystanders.

Feb. 21, 2022


But, with all of that said, America is not entirely innocent of fueling his fires.

How so? Putin views Ukraine’s ambition to leave his sphere of influence as both a strategic loss and a personal and national humiliation. 


Putin is basically saying to Ukrainians (more of whom want to join the European Union than NATO): “You fell in love with the wrong guy. You will not run off with either NATO or the E.U. And if I have to club your government to death and drag you back home, I will.”

この比喩はおもしろい。ウクライナについて「恋に落ちた相手が間違っていた、 お前の政府をぶっ叩いてぶっ殺しても、お前さんを連れ戻す」、と。

 しかし、誰と恋に落ちようと勝手なわけでプーチンの理不尽な横暴さは明らか。ただ、


The most important, and sole, voice at the top of the Clinton administration asking that question was none other than the defense secretary, Bill Perry. Recalling that moment years later, Perry in 2016 told a conference of The Guardian newspaper:

“In the last few years, most of the blame can be pointed at the actions that Putin has taken. But in the early years I have to say that the United States deserves much of the blame. Our first action that really set us off in a bad direction was when NATO started to expand, bringing in Eastern European nations, some of them bordering Russia.


“At that time, we were working closely with Russia and they were beginning to get used to the idea that NATO could be a friend rather than an enemy … but they were very uncomfortable about having NATO right up on their border and they made a strong appeal for us not to go ahead with that.”


I am going to share Kennan’s whole answer:


“I think it is the beginning of a new cold war. I think the Russians will gradually react quite adversely and it will affect their policies. I think it is a tragic mistake. There was no reason for this whatsoever. No one was threatening anybody else. This expansion would make the founding fathers of this country turn over in their graves.

..... Of course there is going to be a bad reaction from Russia, and then [the NATO expanders] will say that we always told you that is how the Russians are — but this is just wrong.”


It’s EXACTLY what has happened.

東方拡大すればこうなると見ていた人たちは多く、アメリカにも非がある、と。

Countries and leaders usually react to humiliation in one of two ways — aggression or introspection. After China experienced what it called a “century of humiliation” from the West, it responded under Deng Xiaoping by essentially saying: “We’ll show you. We’ll beat you at your own game.”

When Putin felt humiliated by the West after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the expansion of NATO, he responded: “I’ll show you. I’ll beat up Ukraine.”

屈辱をうけた国や指導者は「覚えてやがれ、叩きのめしてやる、となるである」と

 

Quoting Tulsi Gabbard, China Says U.S. 'Instigators' of Russia-Ukraine War John Feng -

隣国にNATOを置くことについての安全保障上の懸念は正当かもしれないが、しかし、だからといって侵略したらアウトだな。


上記記事をググってたらでてきた記事で

‘Not One Inch Eastward:’ How the War in Ukraine Could Have Been Prevented Decades Ago

February 24, 2022

The Bush Doctrine of Pre-Emption

by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy

October 9, 2002

These hardliners proclaimed the Wolfowitz/Bush doctrine in 1992 which held that the US was the only remaining superpower and should thus project its dominance over any region in the world.

Senator Edward Kennedy described the doctrine as “a call for 21st century American imperialism that no other nation can or should accept.”

Expanding to the East: A New NATO : Alliance: Full membership may be the most sought-after ‘good’ now enticing Eastern and Central European states--particularly, Russia.

BY JAMES A. BAKER III

DEC. 5, 1993 12 AM PT


From Bucharest and Sofia to Kiev and Riga, leaders and peoples would be encouraged to push forward with democratic practices, free-market reforms and responsible security policies.


アメリカというのは、民主主義と自由市場を世界に拡張するという建前はわりに一貫しているんですね。

 If democracy prevails, NATO membership for Russia will mark a milestone on the road to full integration with the West

ロシアが民主主義の基準をクリアすれば、NATOにいれてもいいんだ、と。 

 

 

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