{"id":1296,"date":"2008-08-21T18:33:41","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T16:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.zeit.de\/joerglau\/2008\/08\/21\/friedman-wir-hatten-die-nato-nicht-erweitern-sollen_1296"},"modified":"2008-08-21T18:33:41","modified_gmt":"2008-08-21T16:33:41","slug":"friedman-wir-hatten-die-nato-nicht-erweitern-sollen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zeit.de\/joerglau\/2008\/08\/21\/friedman-wir-hatten-die-nato-nicht-erweitern-sollen_1296","title":{"rendered":"Friedman: Wir h\u00e4tten die Nato nicht erweitern sollen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Friedman hat heute in der <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/20\/opinion\/20friedman.html?_r=2&amp;hp&amp;oref=slogin&amp;oref=slogin\">New York Times<\/a> einen Kommentar, der sich in die russische Sichtweise ein\u00fcbt.<\/p>\n<p>\tWir h\u00e4tten die Nato nach dem Ende der Sowjetunion nicht ausdehnen sollen, um Ru\u00dfland nicht in die Defensive zu dr\u00e4ngen. Das hat Putins Regiment n\u00e4mlich einfacher gemacht, weil wir seine Weltsicht plausibler gemacht haben &#8211; Ru\u00dfland als eine eingekreiste, gedem\u00fctigte Macht, die durch \u00d6l und Kanonen auf Genugtuung dr\u00e4ngt.<\/p>\n<p>\t<em>&#8222;It seemed to us that since we had finally brought down Soviet communism and seen the birth of democracy in Russia the most important thing to do was to help Russian democracy take root and integrate Russia into Europe. Wasn\u2019t that why we fought the cold war \u2014 to give young Russians the same chance at freedom and integration with the West as young Czechs, Georgians and Poles? Wasn\u2019t consolidating a democratic Russia more important than bringing the Czech Navy into NATO? <\/em><\/p>\n<p>\t<em>All of this was especially true because, we argued, there was no big problem on the world stage that we could effectively address <span class=\"italic\">without Russia<\/span> \u2014 particularly Iran or Iraq. Russia wasn\u2019t about to reinvade Europe. And the Eastern Europeans would be integrated into the West via membership in the European Union.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\t<em>No, said the Clinton foreign policy team, we\u2019re going to cram NATO expansion down the Russians\u2019 throats, because Moscow is weak and, by the way, they\u2019ll get used to it. Message to Russians: We expect you to behave like Western democrats, but we\u2019re going to treat you like you\u2019re still the Soviet Union. The cold war is over for you, but not for us&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\t<em>Despite all the pious blather about using NATO to promote democracy, the belief in Russia\u2019s eternal aggressiveness is the only basis on which NATO expansion ever made sense \u2014 especially when you consider that the Russians were told they could not join. The other premise was that Russia would always be too weak to endanger any new NATO members, so we would never have to commit troops to defend them. It would cost us nothing. They were wrong on both counts.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\t<em> The humiliation that NATO expansion bred in Russia was critical in fueling Putin\u2019s rise after Boris Yeltsin moved on. And America\u2019s addiction to oil helped push up energy prices to a level that gave Putin the power to act on that humiliation.&#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\tJa, da ist auch was dran. Allerdings wird Putin hier doch allzusehr nur als Getriebener dargestellt, und nicht so sehr als eiskalter Akteur, der er auch ist.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.typepad.com\/t\/trackback\/2224950\/32586690\">Hier<\/a> \u00fcbrigens kann man eine Zusammenfassung (eng.) der Doktorthese von Vladimir Putin \u00fcber die strategische Bedeutung der \u00d6l- und Gasreserven lesen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Friedman hat heute in der New York Times einen Kommentar, der sich in die russische Sichtweise ein\u00fcbt. 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