Nash Speaks on Foreign Affairs

Yttinnis Herald, YTTINNIS — Truman Nash, parliamentary leader of the Federal Liberals, joined a panel for a public forum on foreign affairs in Corrintrin earlier this week. Found in this article are excerpts of Nash's comments on a variety of foreign affairs issues. Nash, who has often been criticized for his lack of foreign affairs experience, seems to wish to demonstrate his clout in this area.
===On the Red Federation===
"Some may look at the instability in the Red Federation today as a good thing. After all, communism is, in a certain sense, the enemy of liberalism. It is certainly an enemy of our empire. To imagine, however, that the collapse of the Red Federation would be some sort of tremendous victory is naive."
"The Red Federation is part of a delicate world order. Their collapse would send shock waves through the global political order that could disrupt the world economy for years to come."
"Civil war in the Red Federation would be catastrophic, and I fail to see how Falleentium would not be pulled into such an event. It must be avoided at all costs."
"Ultimately, if we as the Falleen Empire want to avoid global catastrophe, we must lend support to the Red Federation to liberalize. We must say to them, in the sternest words, 'look at the writing on the wall and see what is coming'. We must urge them to liberalize their society in wise ways. We must send liberal economists to assist the transition. Of course, this all hinges on Red Federation cooperation, but at the end of the day, I don't think they will really have much of a choice in the matter. It will be liberalize or perish, simply put."
===On Political Extremism in Southern Countries===
"We don't have to look further than our own Chamber of Deputies to see the absurdity that is right-wing extremism. As a pillar of the global order that we seek to maintain, Falleentium must spearhead efforts to discourage extremism and extinguish it when it is violent".
"Communist extremists and fascist extremists are all the same. They are all footsoldiers for their true ideology: totalitarianism. Falleentium owes it to the world to stand up to these tyrannical people at home and abroad".
"Falleentium must seek to redefine the world order on broad liberal terms."
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