Madeleine Albright: ‘The World Is a Mess’

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright diagnosed the various foreign policy conflicts in hot spots ranging from Ukraine to Libya to Syria on Face the Nation Monday morning, telling host Bob Schieffer that the “world is a mess,” but also that it was the result of centrifugal forces long in the making.

“Can you recall a time when there was so much trouble in so many places around the world?” Schieffer asked.

“We all grew up in a very different era, when we were focused on the threat from the Soviet Union,” Albright said. “What’s happening now is we are seeing problems from a variety of places, some of it due to globalization, frankly, which has an opposite side that has created a lot of nationalism in those countries or places where people feel lost within the facelessness of globalization.”

“There have been two huge game changers,” Albright continued. “One is Putin’s behavior vis-à-vis first Crimea and now toward Ukraine…and the other is what is happening in the Middle East, a lot of it due to the Arab awakening and the artificiality of the borders established after World War I. …So there are an awful lot of things going on that need understanding and explaining. But to put it mildly, the world is a mess.”

Watch the clip below, via CBS News:

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