Een Amerikaans analist, David Goldman, imperialistisch van aard en gelovend in de uitzonderlijkheid van de Amerikanen, maar wel zeggend zijn gedacht zonder zich te hullen in de typische medialeugens:
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The West could have been midwife to a new national consensus - either a single Ukraine reaffirmed by popular mandate, or a decent divorce on the Czech-Slovak model, or perhaps a federal solution somewhere in between. Instead, we encouraged a constitutional crisis in Ukraine. Now we are stuck with the dubious Ms Timoshenko, one of the wealthiest oligarchs to emerge from Ukraine's post-independence theft of national assets, and an intransigent Russia in possession of Crimea.
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Vergis u niet in Goldman echter:
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I am an American and a hawk who wants America to be the world's dominant superpower. Whatever our errors, we are the only nation in the world capable of altruism.
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