Twitter / SophieCo_RT: What the West is getting wrong
What the West is getting wrong in Ukraine - tune in to my interview with David Speedie from @carnegiecouncil, on air today on @RT_com
Twitter / SophieCo_RT: ‘More fanfare than serious
‘More fanfare than serious thinking through of consequences’ – David Speedie on sanctions against Russia http://rt.com/shows/sophieco/crimea-west-power-nato-749/
SS: Now, I know that you are going to be interviewed by CNN right after this interview, and your views are obviously not black and white, but you see many shades of grey in between. When you speak your mind on American television, what are people’s reactions to what you are saying?
DS: It depends whom you’re asking. Let me put it this way, I don’t [think it's] exactly a well-kept secret that some of us like myself and Steve Kohen, my friend, and my other friend Jack Matlock, the former ambassador to the Soviet Union, of course under president Reagan – we try to represent…it’s not a pro-Russian position, it’s a position that tries to take into account Russia’s strategic, political, geographic, cultural, historical concerns. At the Council for Ethics and International Affairs, we like to court certain political philosophers, like Hans Morgenthau, who encouraged us, who exhorted us, urged us to see things from the other person’s point of view. It doesn’t mean that you are capitulating, or abandoning the US national interests or position, but you’re simply taking into account what the other side feels. And again, there has been, as I said, events since the end of the Cold War, where Russia has felt either rejected, humiliated, interests not taken into account, and I think that’s important for us to know. To answer your question directly, I’m delighted to say that people, even if they may be in the minority, people whose views I trust and value and whose opinions I hold to be important as to what they think of me and what I’m saying, they’ve been supportive – and that’s what matters to me, not necessarily the polling that may take place after I say something.
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