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The usual ‘trump card’ for the USA is the play-up of human rights and personal liberties abuse issues. It is well known that sometimes ‘human rights’ have been placed above sovereignty of nations and served as a justification for interference in their internal affairs and even military aggression against them with the purpose of establishing puppet regimes there. The tragic example of Yugoslavia is very representative, as well as the US-inspired coups in many post-Soviet republics. Under the slogan of human rights defense and implantation of democracy the forces are brought to power which are favorable to the USA and hostile to Russia. ‘We have witnessed a Rose Revolution in Georgia, an Orange Revolution in the Ukraine, a Purple Revolution in Iraq, a Tulip Revolution in Kyrgyzstan, and a Cedar Revolution in Lebanon -- and these are only the beginning... America is standing with these democratic reformers because we know that the only force powerful enough to stop the rise of tyranny and terror, and replace hatred with hope, is the force of human freedom. And by extending freedom to millions who have not known it, we will advance the cause of peace and make America more secure’, said G.W. Bush in his address to the Academy's Class of 2001.
America does not only ‘stand with these democratic reformers’, who are always victorious, however few and unrepresentative. In most cases it stands behind them, because these revolutions are in America’s national interests.
So what are the national interests of the USA? As it follows from the policy statement of neoconservative US administration, the USA is entrusted with a unique role for the creation and expansion of the world order serving security, well-being and high principles - to read ‘American security, American well-being and American high principles’. How about security and national interests of other nations, different from those of the USA? How about their well-being? They seem to be nonexistent for the American elite. In reality, what is hidden behind the prate about American values, USA’s messianic role as the disseminator and propagator of human rights priorities (a-la in America), is Washington’s geopolitical interests.
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