Jack F. Matlock, Jr. : Today’s Crisis Over Ukraine
ACURA VIEWPOINT - February 14, 2022
"Maybe we should look at this question more broadly. How do other countries respond to alien military alliances near their borders? Since we are talking about American policy, maybe we should pay some attention to the way
the United States has reacted to attempts of outsiders to establish alliances with countries nearby.
Anybody remember the Monroe Doctrine, a declaration of a sphere of influence that comprised an entire hemisphere? And we meant it!
When we learned that Kaiser’s Germany was attempting to enlist Mexico as an ally during the first world war, that was a powerful incentive for the subsequent declaration of war against Germany.
Then, of course, in my lifetime, we had the Cuban Missile Crisis - something I remember vividly since I was at the American Embassy in Moscow and translated some of Khrushchev’s messages to Kennedy."
"My words, and my voice was not the only one. In 1997, when the question of adding more members to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), I was asked to testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
In my introductory remarks, I made the following statement: “I consider the Administration’s recommendation to take new members into NATO at this time misguided.
If it should be approved by the United States Senate, it may well go down in history as the most profound strategic blunder made since the end of the Cold War.
Far from improving the security of the United States, its Allies, and the nations that wish to enter the Alliance, it could well encourage a chain of events that could produce the most serious security threat to this nation
since the Soviet Union collapsed.”
"So far as Ukraine is concerned, U.S. intrusion into its domestic politics was deep - to the point of seeming to select a prime minister. It also, in effect, supported an illegal coup d’etat that changed the Ukrainian government in 2014, a procedure not normally considered consistent with the rule of law or democratic governance. The violence that still simmers in Ukraine started in the “pro-Western” west, not in the Donbas where it was a reaction to what was viewed as the threat of violence against Ukrainians who are ethnic Russian."
ACURA ViewPoint Jack F. Matlock, Jr.: Today's Crisis Over Ukraine - American Committee for US-Russia Accord (usrussiaaccord.org)
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