Interference In Internal Affairs Quotes

This was much less a treaty of how the two nations would interact with each other, than a joint statement to the world of opposition to any nation interfering with the internal affairs of another country.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910

After the 1917 Russian Revolution many of the Western Countries sent troops to Russia where they aided the Whites against the Reds. When the Red Bolsheviks prevailed, there were many attempts to diplomatically and economically undermine the Communist government. This caused a unity among different Russian factions. Sforza urged leaving them alone and letting the Bolsheviks fail by their own ideology. Most Western nations and the United States did not agree with him.

The Ayatollah reverses logic. Iranian feminists protest not because America tells them to but because Iran is terribly discriminatory and cruel to women. Students are dissatisfied because they have been trained as professionals and the government policies do not encourage the kind of economic growth that would be able to employ them.

This quotation would not be memorable but for the fact that one of the other “passengers” on that Central Intelligence Agency “train” was Saddam Hussein, who later became the dictator of Iraq and the enemy of the United States. This was a classic example of unintended consequences of covert operations. The Cia covertly put the Baath Party in power in Iran, and some years later, the Iraqi Baath Party became a major enemy of the United States.

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

He was referring to the fact that the American military is the best in the world, but we cannot and should not use it to try and resolve all problems.

The poet was a close friend of Iranian Principal Leader Ali Khamenei. See {637008} for an example of the lasting effect of this coup.

This speech was given on the Armenian murders, (the word genocide had not yet been coined), in Turkey

The plan was to have an American agent with a few marines make an alliance with a rival to the throne of Algiers and depose the existing ruler with American “special forces”.

The United States, Russia, England and many other counties clandestine services have actually don’t this in the past be whipping up the population of a country via agents, propaganda, and a host of other techniques. However, what was new was the added capability of digital cyber warfare and social media which can spread disinformation very efficiently.

The United States did very little to stop the Armenian genocide that had been carried out by Turkey. We also did little to stop the Nazi genocide of the Jews and Gypsies, the extermination of the Cambodian urban and intellectual population and the Ruanda genocide of the Tutsies. The argument that we could not stop it tended to mean that we did little or nothing to diminish the murder. President Clinton stated that this failure was his greatest mistake in office.

Although Father Dudko hated the Soviets, he was very much a Russian nationalist. So he adopted the Communist Regime position on anti-Communist foreigners who would help the anti-Soviet dissidents.

After the First World War, the United States and other countries were very conscious of the possibility of foreign arms sales encouraging and facilitating war and aggression. Therefore, arms shipments were very limited. The exception allowed tyrannical governments often to suppress, and often kill, their own citizens. By the end of the 20th century, the United States would sell arms to almost anyone and was the largest arms supplier in the world. Much of the flip flop of position on arms exports was caused by the fact that other nations were shipping arms and getting the jobs and profits associated with those exports and almost anyone in the world with money could buy arms. So the United States allowed its arms manufacturers to compete in this lucrative business to all but a few arms embargoed nations with whom we were having international difficulty.

William V, Prince of Orange, was in a very precarious position and might be deposed. Officially Harris and the British were supporting him and Harris was giving him money to firm up his regime, but their great fear was that the French would support and control the Patriot Revolutionary movement, then quite active. And William was very tentative in dealing with the growing Patriot revolutionary movement. Actually, to cover all eventualities, Harris was secretly aiding the Patriots as well. See {639752}.

Zt the time he made this statement, some Russians—probably with the blessing of the Russian government—had been hacking the e-mail computers of the Democratic National Committee and making embarrassing e-mails public through Wikileaks. Many Americans were concerned at the possibility that Russia, another nation, or a non-state group could hack into the voting machines and the computers that tally the votes. This statement was made to reassure them. There are 9000 different polling places where Americans can vote in a Presidential election. There is no single entity that anyone could hack to rig the vote counts. And there is no uniformity in the voting machines used, the tabulating and aggregating methods and machines, and the software that is used to tally the vote in cities, counties and states. And no voting machines are connected to the Internet.