piątek, 3 lutego 2023

...na dobry początek kolejnego weekendu

 ...dopowiedzeniem;

nic dodać, nic ująć

"America today faces a potentially existential challenge to its national security as two great power adversaries, Russia and China, contest its post-Cold War dominion. The reason? For 30 years it has been led by corporate, media, and policy elites who failed to acknowledge the enduring verities of great power politics. Instead of carefully reassessing our strategy when the Soviet Union imploded, after 1990 our intelligentsia embraced without hesitation the ideological bromides - principally cooked up in our think tanks and universities - about the “end of history,” our “unipolar moment,” and the inevitable triumph of the so-called liberal international order across the globe. Never before has a drive towards empire been based on such a glaring inability to calculate power relationships and to learn from history..." jak niżej za panem Andrew A. Michtą[1]


i dalej

"...The processes we are witnessing today, both in our cities and across the world, are not an accidental coming together of factors. Rather, they are a manifestation of deep structural changes within America, and in the global power distribution, resulting from decades of willful economic, foreign, and security policies that rested on a spectacular misdiagnosis of the end of the Cold War and its consequences..." tamże...

- A co w tym niby takiego...

weekendowego ? - może i usłyszę...

jeśli to odpowiem

...nie inaczej jak...

kolejnym cytatem sygnowanym przez pana A.A.M.

"...Right now, the greatest obstacle to the West providing all-out military and economic support to Ukraine is our inability to imagine a new power configuration in Eastern Europe - one that would rest on the NATO’s Baltic-to-Black Sea intermarium corridor of countries closely aligned with the U.S. And as Finland and Sweden gear up to enter NATO, Europe is on the cusp of a potentially transformative geopolitical reconfiguration, much like at the end of World War I.

The defense of Ukraine is not only about national sovereignty and territorial integrity - historically, the two foundational principles of democratic governance - but ultimately about pushing Russia out of Europe, thereby ending three centuries of its imperial drive. The independence of Ukraine, and by extension of Belarus - for, once Ukraine has defended its sovereignty and territorial integrity, Minsk wouldn’t remain in Moscow’s orbit for long - would end Russia’s claim to being a key “Eurasian power in Europe.”

As such, for the first time in the modern era, it would force Moscow to come to terms with what it takes, economically and politically, to become a “normal” nation-state.

[...]

This war, which has been forced upon Ukraine and the West by Putin’s neo-imperial plan, has already changed Europe. It has presented the democratic West with the kind of opportunity that comes but once in four or five generations - with the chance to remake the Continent’s geopolitical map.

Let’s have the courage to help Ukraine win."
[1]...

w poprawności monologu jeszcze tymczasem tylko przy porannym kubku kawy z kwestią czy aby zamiast jak w oryginale "...Moscow..." j.w. "...to become a “normal” [...] state..."

U.S. nie brzmi równie dobrze...

...jeśli dla setek milionów współobywateli ekumeny euroatlantyckiej... 

nie lepiej...


[1] "Andrew A. Michta is dean of the College of International and Security Studies at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies. He’s a former professor of national security affairs tat he U.S. Naval War College and a former senior fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis..." - "Politico" via Przy porannym kubku kawy: ...Ukraina dziś wielce szanowny panie... (tadeusz-ludwiszewski.blogspot.com)