Sheldon Richman on Ukraine and the American Interventionist Disease

If the purpose of U.S.
intervention in the affairs of other countries is really to help
suffering people, the program has a fatal flaw. (This should
surprise no one familiar with other government programs.) The flaw
is that the U.S. government does opposition movements no favors
when it gives credibility to the charge that those movements are
tools of foreign — particularly American — interests. Sheldon
Richman calls this taint the American disease.

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