{"id":9425,"date":"2009-02-20T07:47:05","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T04:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=9425"},"modified":"2014-01-01T20:46:35","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T18:46:35","slug":"brzezinski-reviews-us-policy-towards-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2009\/02\/20\/brzezinski-reviews-us-policy-towards-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Brzezinski reviews US policy towards Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">Zbigniew Brzezinski, former US National Security Adviser under Jimmy Carter, claims that <strong>bringing the Ukraine closer to the West is the key to assuring the democratization of Russia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">In an interview for the French paper Le Figaro said that t<strong>he West must work to reopen relations with Russia and that Georgia and the Ukraine must be part of that dialogue.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong>Western nations, including Poland and the United States, must rework their relations with Russia in order to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">`slowly limit Russia\u2019s nostalgia for imperialism and renew disarmament negotiations.`<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Brzezinski told the paper that initiating a new dialogue with Russia cannot happen at the cost of limiting the aspirations of those countries seeking NATO membership \u2013 such as the Ukraine and Georgia \u2013 especially because the Ukraine, as a NATO member opens up a transformative path to democratize Russia.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong>Source:\u00a0 The Georgian Times, 02.19.2009<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zbigniew Brzezinski, former US National Security Adviser under Jimmy Carter, claims that bringing the Ukraine closer to the West is the key to assuring the democratization of Russia. In an interview for the French paper Le Figaro said that the West must work to reopen relations with Russia and that Georgia and the Ukraine must [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":179175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,628,42,89,783,34],"tags":[828],"class_list":["post-9425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-georgia-caucasus","category-poland-eu-members-european-countries-english","category-russia","category-turkey","category-ukraine-eastern-europe-english","category-usa","tag-zbigniew-brzezinski"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}