Brzezinski, Kissinger Decry Russia’s Involvement in Ukraine

Created: 01.12.2004 18:22 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 18:22 MSK, 12 hours 54 minutes ago
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The Ukraine crisis is representative of Russia’s true intentions and puts the future of democracy in Eastern Europe at stake, according to former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and former secretary of state Henry Kissinger.

“If Ukrainian democracy prevails, Russia has no choice but to go to the West and to be a democracy,” Brzezinski said at an American Enterprise Institute event. “If Ukrainian democracy fails, Russia and imperial ambitions are awakened.”

“The stakes are of truly historic proportions,” he added.

Henry Kissinger also believes that Russia is still acting in the Soviet imperial manner, undeterred by the breakup of the USSR 15 years ago.

Dan Fried, a former U.S. ambassador to Poland and now a top NSC official, said, “It is not for us to make this an East-West issue. This is a fight about democracy.”

He added: “We are not going to make this about Russia or any other country. I think that all democratic nations should support the principle and practice of democracy in Ukraine.”