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Pete Buttigieg: Be serious about security like Israel, but live freely

Buttigieg had praise for Israel, suggesting its way of handling security threats could be a good model for the US. Seeing the way that a country can be very very serious, and effective when it comes to security and on the other hand not allowing concerns about security to dominate your consciousness, I think that's a very important lesson that Americans can look to when we think about how to navigate a world that unfortunately has become smaller and more dangerous for all of us.
Source: Alex Ward of Vox.com on 2020 Democratic primary Apr 3, 2019

Vladimir Putin: Ukraine and Georgia in NATO is threat to Russia

Ukraine isn't joining NATO anytime soon, and President Joe Biden has said as much. Still, NATO's open-door policy--the alliance's foundational principle that any qualified European country could join--cuts both ways. To the West, it's a statement of autonomy; to Russia, it's a threat. The core of the NATO treaty is Article 5, a commitment that an attack on any country is treated as an attack on the entire alliance--meaning any Russian military engagement with a Ukraine as NATO member would theoretically bring Moscow into conflict with the US and the 27 other NATO members.

The prospect of Ukraine and Georgia joining NATO has antagonized Putin at least since President George W. Bush expressed support for the idea in 2008. "That was a real mistake," said the ambassador to Ukraine under President Bill Clinton. "It drove the Russians nuts. It created expectations in Ukraine and Georgia, which then were never met. And so that just made that whole issue of enlargement a complicated one."

Source: Vox.com on Foreign Influences: "NATO expansion" Jan 27, 2022

Vladimir Putin: 2013 Euromaidan protests: dangerous Ukraine nationalism

The central contention of Putin's speech [this week] is that Ukraine and Russia are, in historical terms, essentially inseparable. "Ukraine is not just a neighboring country for us. It is an inalienable part of our own history, culture and spiritual space," he said. This illustrates what Putin means by "the virus of nationalism."

"Radicals and nationalists, including and primarily those in Ukraine, are taking credit for having gained independence," he says. Russian control over Ukraine, he argues, has been replaced by a different kind of foreign rule: that of the West. After the 2013 Euromaidan protests, which toppled pro-Russian leader Viktor Yanukovych, "Ukraine itself was placed under external control--a colony with a puppet regime."

A Western-backed government, Putin warns, threatens the very survival of the Russian state. He warns of Ukraine acquiring nuclear weapons with Western assistance, joining NATO, and ultimately serving as a launching pad for an American assault on Russia.

Source: Vox.com on Foreign Influences: "NATO expansion" Feb 23, 2022

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