{"id":14006,"date":"2016-08-17T01:13:13","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T05:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=14006"},"modified":"2016-08-17T01:13:13","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T05:13:13","slug":"how-to-counter-the-putin-playbook-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/17\/how-to-counter-the-putin-playbook-the-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Counter the Putin Playbook | The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/07\/31\/opinion\/sunday\/how-to-counter-the-putin-playbook.html?smid=tw-share&amp;_r=0\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thepatientinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/31mcfaul-master768.jpg?w=525&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Michael A. McFaul, director of the Freeman Spogli Institute and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, both at Stanford, served as United States ambassador to the Russian Federation from 2012 to 2014:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;We will not find security in isolationism. No missile defense shield, cybersecurity program, tariff or border wall can protect us if we disengage. Menacing autocracies, illiberal ideas, and antidemocratic and terrorist movements will not just leave us alone or wither away. The threats will grow and eventually endanger our peace, as we saw in Europe and Japan in the 1930s, and Afghanistan in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>Conversely, the growth of democracy around the world serves American interests. Democracies do not threaten us; autocracies do. Democratic allies also vote with us at the United Nations, go to war with us, support international treaties and norms, and stand with us against tyranny.<\/p>\n<p>So we must push back, in new ways. Just as the Kremlin has become more sophisticated at exporting its ideas and supporting its friends, so must we.<\/p>\n<p>We should think of advancing democratic ideas abroad primarily as an educational project, almost never as a military campaign. Universities, books and websites are the best tools, not the 82nd Airborne. The United States can expand resources for learning about democracy&#8230;&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I agree with the sentiment but not the execution. Win friends by promoting education and building infrastructure abroad. These have practical, tangible benefits to citizens of developing nations. Democracy can come later. In many parts of the world it is as foreign a concept as gay marriage.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/07\/31\/opinion\/sunday\/how-to-counter-the-putin-playbook.html\">How to Counter the Putin Playbook &#8211; The New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael A. McFaul, director of the Freeman Spogli Institute and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, both at Stanford, served as United States ambassador to the Russian Federation from 2012 to 2014: &#8230;We will not find security in isolationism. 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