I think it is very damaging, because I think--having spent a lot of time talking to a variety of foreign leaders and them basically saying, you mean you want us to do this, but what are you doing and saying?
Albright discusses the impact of U.S. moral authority on global democracy.
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Like other authoritarians, he equates his well-being with that of the nation, opposition with treason. Because he believes that the U.S. dominates its own region by force, he thinks Russia has the same right.
There is a movement on the other side. There is kind of rising nationalism in a number of different countries.
I don't think it's a western concept that we're too pushy about. I don't believe you can ever be too pushy about democracy.
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