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In order to learn from history and prevent blowback-like situations we need to have an as good as possible informed civil population. | In order to learn from history and prevent blowback-like situations we need to have an as good as possible informed civil population. | ||
: Chalmers Johnson, CIA consultant, [https:// | : Chalmers Johnson, CIA consultant, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pwD4J35-i8&t=350s about "blowback"]: ''The unintended consequences of foreign CIA operations that were deliberately kept secret... so people come up with questions like, "Why do they hate us?"'' | ||
: Robert Gates, American intelligence analyst and United States secretary of defense complained that the Europeans were not spending enough for NATO's budget. At the same time he criticized NATO's expansion plans: "[https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2022/03/11/john-mearsheimer-on-why-the-west-is-principally-responsible-for-the-ukrainian-crisis trying to bring Georgia and Ukraine into NATO was truly overreaching.]" | : Robert Gates, American intelligence analyst and United States secretary of defense complained that the Europeans were not spending enough for NATO's budget. At the same time he criticized NATO's expansion plans: "[https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2022/03/11/john-mearsheimer-on-why-the-west-is-principally-responsible-for-the-ukrainian-crisis trying to bring Georgia and Ukraine into NATO was truly overreaching.]" | ||
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* mediocre: [[wp:Regional_Comprehensive_Economic_Partnership|RCEP]] members | * mediocre: [[wp:Regional_Comprehensive_Economic_Partnership|RCEP]] members | ||
* mediocre: nations being part of "[[wp:Belt_and_Road_Initiative|belt and road initiative]]", built infrastructure, bought ports, Chinese secret state loans | * mediocre: nations being part of "[[wp:Belt_and_Road_Initiative|belt and road initiative]]", built infrastructure, bought ports, Chinese secret state loans | ||
** Serbia (shared influence by Russia and [https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2021-04/china-serbien-corona-impfstoff-propaganda-eu-balkan China], bad mood in Balkan states because of creeping progress in EU membership) | ** Serbia (shared influence by Russia and [https://web.archive.org/web/20210418050030/https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2021-04/china-serbien-corona-impfstoff-propaganda-eu-balkan China], bad mood in Balkan states because of creeping progress in EU membership) | ||
** Portugal | ** Portugal | ||
** [...] | ** [...] | ||