My comment on "" The Quixote, er, Magnitsky Act Kicks In "" by Jay Ulfelder

My comment on "" The Quixote, er, Magnitsky Act Kicks In "" by Jay Ulfelder
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I think time has come for both the dwindling juggernauts to think that collectively did they do any good to this world? It is always a zero sum game when it comes to Russia V/S US. If we have to understand that it is always about capitalism fighting communism or vice versa why the situation has not been improved. I agree that for Russia it is a way to go for democratizing many things. But If US has to claim that it has the moral authority to push its style of democracy, openness and liberalism etc., It should not chery pick Russia alone but it must risk it doing with Islamic countries for whom even semblance of democracy is too remote and foreign to accept.

I always feel that for super powers there are always two choices, National Interest and Global Interest, and they must strike a balance between them without a over emphasis on any one thing. The term National Interest means at times anti others which will directly take a toll on Global Interest. Britain has to go down the annuls and is no more a super power because it treated everybody else as just resources with no respect for other’s right to lead a dignified life. Only those leaders who had the ability to harmonize these two conflicting terms could take the human race forward. Woodrow Wilson succeeded to an extent and I think no one else has met the bench mark he has set. And the current leaders of both these countries (US,Russia) have kept the Global Interest in aloof and fueled the rivalries. Suddenly it seemed that the whole US campaign of Reset with Russia was a bluff.

Should I thank the God? May be yes. For giving us the Nuclear weapons, thereby avoiding a third World War? Time to think rationally for both US & Russia and prove Herbert Simon wrong.

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