Cordon sanitaire

Points of view in the West


   U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that while Russia has legitimate security interests, approval of a cordon sanitaire "give the old Soviet Agitation and Propaganda Department, and the policy dictated by the desire to dominate in the near abroad.

   About cordon sanitaire voiced Western commentators. Senior reporter for Le Figaro Laure Mandeville (born Laure Mandeville) writes that the West's desire to see in their ranks the Baltic countries and even Ukraine has nothing to do with geopolitical conspiracy. The opposite view holds Daniel Schorr (born Daniel Schorr), a senior analyst at National Public Radio News and the winner of three Emmy. In his article in the Christian Science Monitor, he wrote that the Bush administration with former Soviet republics and satellites are trying to recreate the cordon sanitaire of deterrence in the spirit of George Kennan, and wondered why the U.S. needs a new little cold war. Uapshott Nicholas (Nicholas Wapshott), New York Sun, noted that President Bush is fully aware of the urgency of installing a cordon sanitaire around Russia, referring to the leaders of NATO to provide early membership for Ukraine and Georgia, but France and Germany vetoed the idea. Other sources also point out the reluctance of Germany and France to join the creation of a cordon against Russia.

   President of the Reseau Voltaire in Paris by Thierry Meyssan (Fr. Thierry Meyssan) believes that Washington took control of Ukraine and Belarus is isolated to prevent the normal transport gas from Russia - and Germany are trying to circumvent this new cordon sanitaire. Jacques Sapir, a Russia specialist at the French School of Social Sciences, in an interview with Radio France Internationale believed that if NATO aims to create a cordon sanitaire, any country that enters into an alliance, commits an act of aggression against Russia and is detrimental to its national interests.

   Thinking in Junge Welt on the role of Poland, the Austrian publicist Werner Pirker (Werner Pirker) sees obsessive ambition Warsaw in the heart of anti-Russian conspiracy to create a cordon sanitaire against the Muscovites. The historian and columnist for Le Nouvel Observateur, Jacques Zhyuliar (Jacques Julliard) thinks that the cordon sanitaire around Russia creates such an act a return to Cold War as acceptance into NATO of Ukraine and Georgia.