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My country owes a lot to her. In years 90', there wasn't really much support from USA for Eastern Europe countries to join NATO. Her lobbying for Poland was one

My country owes a lot to her. In years 90', there wasn't really much support from USA for Eastern Europe countries to join NATO. Her lobbying for Poland was one of the reasons we got into NATO. If not for that, we'd be already at war with Russia.

ardit33 5y ago
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- divbzero 5y ago
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- lkbm 5y ago
  She was around for a lot of things, some very good and some very bad. I'm glad she worked to stop the genocide in Kosovo, but for me (39, US) the most salient thing I've known about has been about Rwanda—we signed a treaty saying we had to intervene in genocide, and then when genocide happened in 1994, we re-interpreted it to mean we're merely allowed to intervene. And then we largely blocked UN intervention. 700,000 people were murdered in 100 days. Clinton is obviously the main culprit in this failure, but Albright, then the US Ambassador to the UN, certainly had a part.
- zmk5 5y ago
  This isn't true since her legacy spans more than just Eastern Europe. She is generally derided in the Middle East (save for Israel) and it is hard not to see why.
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