AKV--
You're bringing the heat in this thread.
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Originally Posted by akv
I agree this is sticky, but shouldn't US interests should always be forefront in the minds of our leadership?
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I'll see your rhetorical question and raise you.
- To what extent should America's ideals inform our understanding of our interests?
- Is a 'realist' approach to foreign policy consistent with our view of American exceptionalism?
- (How does pressuring Turkey on this point impact its relations with Russia?
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Originally Posted by akv
I saw a clip of a discussion between former national security advisers Brzezinski and Scowcroft. . . . .The Germans admitted and condemned Nazi evils and have moved on....
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MOO, this characterization on the part of Brzezinski and Scowcroft is not quite so tidy historically or historiographically. The manifold debates over "Germans into Nazis" continue to this day.*
(Also, some of Germany's allies in NATO were less than pleased with its preference to avoid planning to defend the alliance's Baltic members in case of a Russian invasion <<
LINK>>.)
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* Wolfram Wette,
The Wehrmacht: History, Myth, Reality, trans. Deborah Lucas Schneider (ISBN-13 978-0674022133); Alan E. Steinweis,
Kristallnacht 1938 (ISBN-13 9780674036239).