Atlantic Council Meeting (13:42) https://www.c-span.org/video/?86974-1/nato-expansion
How does it feel Europe?! How does it feel when someone else is calling you the savages that need civilising for a change?
Imagine saying this in 1997, during one of the most peaceful and prosperous periods of European History since the late Napoleonic Era.
peaceful and prosperous
Unless you’re Russian, Ukrainian, Albanian or anywhere in or around Yugoslavia.
I mean, in 1997, Ukraine and Russia were signing The Treaty of Friends. Hardly the most acrimonious period between them. The First Chechen War had wrapped up a year ago and the Second Chechen War wouldn’t break out until '99. Even that was small potatoes compared to the bloody mess of Afghanistan and the uprising in Romania during the 80s.
Yugoslavia definitely sucked, but it was the notable exception. Even Greece and Turkey managed to tone it down during the 90s.
I was more referring to prosperity when mentioning Russia and Ukraine. The decrease in living standards, and massive increase in alcoholism and deaths of dispair hardly paints a prosperous picture.
Unless I’m forgetting some especially disastrous conflict in the 1970s and 1980s in Europe, I don’t think you could argue that the 90s were more peaceful than either.
i dont think he feels any particular way or thinks anything about… anything at the moment.
Americans talking about political maturation condescendingly is just confusing it’s not even insulting. They want to kill each other over nothing
Hell America decides it’s abortion laws on the timing of an old womans death. That is not a rational system of making law
It’s like a three year old bragging that he can beat you up.
