It almost seems as if neither the Pentagon nor NATO nor the Armed Services Committees have a position which Hungarian-American neo-Con Evelyn Farkas has not held at one time or another in the past 30 years, not to mention her own Farkas Global Strategies Corp. This woman thinks a great deal about war.
In an NPR joint interview or semi-"debate” with University of Chicago political scientist John Mearsheimer May 5, with host Judy Woodruff, Farkas showed just how dangerous to human life war-hawks of the Madeleine Albright line become, when they make a career of thinking about NATO “winning” wars all over the world.
Secretary of State Albright was challenged on “60 Minutes” in 1996, that the sanctions against Iraq which she was overseeing had cost the lives of 500,000 Iraqi children. She infamously said, “The price is worth it.” Here is what Farkas said to Mearsheimer’s contention that NATO’s policy of “crushing” Russia can trigger nuclear war:
“So I don’t think we should be deterred by this fear that he’s [President Putin] going to reach for nuclear weapons. We cannot rule it out. I’m not dismissing it. But I also think that the objective that we have right now, the stakes are so high. It’s nothing less — it’s not just about Ukraine. It’s about the international order.”
So the price would be worth it–a possible nuclear war for NATO’s international order.
Mearsheimer responded: “When Professor Farkas talks about the consequences of this for the world order, I’m more worried about the consequences if we ended up getting hit with nuclear weapons.”