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In December 2013, in a speech to the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation, Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs [[Victoria Nuland]] said: “The [[United States]] has supported Ukraine’s European aspirations. … We have invested over $5 billion to assist Ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic Ukraine.” | In December 2013, in a speech to the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation, Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs [[Victoria Nuland]] said: “The [[United States]] has supported Ukraine’s European aspirations. … We have invested over $5 billion to assist Ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic Ukraine.” | ||
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Nye popularized the concept of soft power in the late 1980s.[1]
Soft power is a nation's capacity to cause other nations to do things through persuasion rather than direct military intervention. The American neo-liberal socialist Joseph Nye introduced the concept of "soft power" in the late 1980s. American soft power often takes the form of NGO grants through USAID, the National Endowment for Democracy, the U.S. State Department and other entities for so called "anti-corruption" campaigns to control opposition to US puppet regimes or overthrow sovereign, independent, and non-aligned governments. Grants to organize and facilitate LGBT rights,[2] so-called "democracy" movements and color revolutions is another form of American "soft power".
Brand Finance, the world's leading brand valuation consultancy, annually list the countries with the strongest soft power.
Pre-NATO war soft power in Ukraine
- See also: Maidan coup
The overthrow of democracy in Ukraine by the Obama administration provides a textbook illustration of US soft power tactics.
In December 2013, in a speech to the U.S.-Ukraine Foundation, Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Victoria Nuland said: “The United States has supported Ukraine’s European aspirations. … We have invested over $5 billion to assist Ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic Ukraine.”
In December 2016 US Vice President Joe Biden threatened Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko that the Obama administration would pull $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees, sending Ukraine toward insolvency, if it didn't immediately fire Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin who was investigating his son, Hunter. Biden recounted,
| "'You’re not getting the billion'. I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money'...Well, [SOB], he got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time."[4][5] |
Brand Finance's 2022 ranking of the countries with the most soft power
Brand Finance's 2022 ranking of the 10 countries with the most soft power[6]:
- United States
- United Kingdom
- Germany
- China
- Japan
- France
- Canada
- Switzerland
- Russia
- Italy
See also
References
- ↑ (16 March 2004) Soft Power: The Means To Success In World Politics. PublicAffairs. ISBN 9781586482251. “[...] I had coined the term 'soft power' a decade or so earlier. [...] I first developed the concept of 'soft power' in Bound to Lead, a book I published in 1990 [...].”
- ↑ See for example Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for Grants to Support the Needs of the LGBTQI+ Community in Poland, U.S. Embassy & Consulate in Poland. pl.usembassy.gov
- ↑ https://haciendapublishing.com/articles/deep-dark-secrets-rich-famous-and-powerful-cliff-kincaid
- ↑ https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/436816-joe-bidens-2020-ukrainian-nightmare-a-closed-probe-is-revived
- ↑ https://www.cfr.org/event/foreign-affairs-issue-launch-former-vice-president-joe-biden
- ↑ Global Soft Power Index 2022: USA bounces back better to top of nation brand ranking, Brand Finance website, 2022