Mike Farren Quotes

The Shah of Iran was one of the worst violators of human rights in the world. His secret security service were brutal thugs who murdered and tortured with impunity. Carter however in most other instances made human rights a centerpiece of his foreign policy. In Iran he overlooked the human rights abuses as the United States needed the Iranian oil. When the Iranians finally revolted against the Shah, they resented Carter and the United States for allowing the Shah to operate his empire with no regard for civil rights while the U. S. continued to preach about human rights. When the Iranians established their revolutionary government, they got the worst of all worlds. Iran became a fundamentalist theocracy, had their economy deteriorate despite their oil wealth, and the Human Rights violations of the Revolutionary Government were worse than the terrible record of the Shah.

This was an incredible prediction with no other world leader thinking it possible for decades until that is exactly what happened.

Actually the United States has a long history in interfering with foreign elections throughtout Latin American Countries, Europe, Asia,, and Africa. Russia also has been trying to tilt elections recently in Eastern Europe and befroe the COld War the International Communist Party was involved trying to swing elections since shortly after the Russin Revolution. Before that the Czars agents were involved in many foreign elections. But the United States and Russia historically are relative newcomers and rank amateurs in interering with foireign elections when compared with Germany and France and the Champion--Great Britain who controlled much of the world and very often promoting democratic values like elections throughtout the world and then workign to manipulate those elections. Japan and Chine did much less of this historically. Instead they just conquored other counties and placed their puppets in charge. What was new in teh 2016 Russian interference in the American Election was the fact that it was done by hacking computers. Putin had accused Hillary Clinton of Interfering with the Russian election when he last ran for President by funing Russian organziations that oppo

Theis was the phrase he used to describe the collapse of the Soviet Union. This and other statements he made about the breakup of the Russian empire, together with his actons reagading foreign affairs, led many Western observers to think that Putin was trying to build up Russia to be amajor World Power as it was relatively recently. This annual address to the Duma has the importance of the United States' President with the State of the Nation Address. Every phrase and sentence is very carefully crafted. Also see Quotation 644184 under Related Quotes foir a more explicit statement,

This and other statements he made about the breakup of the Russian empire, together with his actons reagading foreign affairs, led many Western observers to think that Putin was trying to build up Russia to be amajor World Power as it was relatively recently. Also see Quotation 644183 under Related Quotes foir a more explicit statement,

During the Cold War and afterwards many Americans attributed the problems we were having with the Soviet Union emenated from the fact that they were Communists, and our focus was anti-communism. Kennen, however argued that it was not Communism that was the cause of the Aggression of the Soviet Union. It was an extension of the Russian Culture. After the Soviet Union collapsed, and Communism was rejected by the Russians, we still had a great deal of Russian aggression and Foreign Policy problems with Russia. Kennan was right. It was the Russian culture, history, values and traditions that were the primary cause of most of the problems with Russia.