Tuesday, 18 January 2022

Democracy/voting is not always the right thing to do

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/12/russias-belief-in-nato-betrayal-and-why-it-matters-today

 

Democracy/voting, as with B Johnson’s disastrous Premiership, does not always get things right!  Extract:


“The US administration in 1993 could have delayed Nato expansion, but supporters who saw it as a democratic right of the former Warsaw Pact countries defeated those who argued it would weaken both Russian support for arms control and the forces of reform inside Russia.”

 

NATO expansion has led to the Putin kickback.  No arms control even in the UK, certainly not in Russia.  And no reform anywhere!

 

Thanks for the excellent debate and for your comments, Tony.

 

Tim

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