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In reply to the discussion: Clinton fears efforts to 're-Sovietize' in Europe [View all]pampango
(24,692 posts)Woodrow Wilson. Don't allow a perversion of it as practiced by neo-cons to destroy a very liberal tradition.
Conservatives are much more isolationistic than liberals and always have been. Conservatives blocked US participation in the League of Nations and many want us to withdraw from the UN and many other international organization and avoid international commitments.
The countries mentioned in the story are Russia, Belarus and Turkmenistan not exactly paragons of democracy and concern for human rights, but to call it a re-Sovietization seems like a stretch. There are forces in every country that seek to rule without consent of the governed. Each country's citizens have to struggle against the plutocracy in their own country. Nothing is given by those with power without struggle.