David Samuels: The United States created a vacuum filled by aggressive Russia and Iran

13 April 2018, 09:54

The US has created security vacuum filled by aggressive Russia and Iran and now threatened.

This was stated by co-author of the New York Times Magazine (USA) David Samuels at the 11th Kyiv Security Forum in Kyiv.

"Why are these countries becoming powerful, because the US has created a kind of vacuum that needs to be filled. Putin and the Russian army are a big threat. If you look at Iran, then this is a big threat to the Middle East. Vacuum is a thing that was the United States. It needs to be filled," he said.

Along with this, D. Samuels pointed out that the US is at all times in a conflict or a war with someone else. "The United States is in a state of war all the time or is in a conflict elsewhere in the world. And it was probably related to the obligations enunciated in treaties, and so on. And we can say that American foreign policy has had negative consequences for the US itself," he said.

According to him, the previous American leadership tried somehow "to get rid of" or "to clear up the mines" some "hot spots" in some places. But the consequences of such a policy, which may have had good intentions, "were not the best."

For reference:

The annual international event Kyiv Security Forum was launched by the Arseniy Yatsenyuk Foundation Open Ukraine in 2007 as a platform for high-level discussions on the current issues in Europe and the Black Sea region. The Forum aims at increasing security cooperation between the EU and the Black Sea region, raising awareness about regional developments among key regional players, promoting the role of independent and non-governmental actors in setting the security agenda in Europe.

The event is being held with the support of NATO Information and Documentation Center in Ukraine, the German Marshall Fund, The Victor Pinchuk Foundation, The Royal Institute of International Relations, Chatham House (UK), and The Regional Representative Office of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Ukraine.

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David Samuels: The United States created a vacuum filled by aggressive Russia and Iran

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