5月18日，美国退役海军上将、前北约驻欧洲最高盟军司令詹姆斯·斯塔夫里迪斯表示，美国面临的最大威胁不是俄罗斯、中国或伊朗，而是美国社会内部的分裂。这位前欧洲北约总司令在媒体的专栏中指出了对于美国比俄罗斯更重要的威胁。

斯塔夫里利斯说，最重要的是，他担心围绕美国国家安全政策（包括对乌克兰和以色列的支持）的例行分歧如何演变成国会、大学校园和网上的内讧。因此，斯塔夫里迪斯在美国国会和美国大学的亲巴勒斯坦抗议活动中暗示了美国对乌克兰和以色列援助资金的协调，持续了六个多月。

斯塔夫里迪斯认为，为了避免这种情况，不仅应该奖励军队，还应该奖励医生、消防员、警察和外交官，以及年轻人和志愿者，因为他们为国家做出了贡献。

二 | 此外，这位前北约总司令表示，有必要改变教育制度，提高学生的互联网素养和公民意识，并创建更多负担得起的社区大学。

斯塔夫里迪斯认为，美国的选举制度也需要改革。他建议向更广泛的选民开放初选，而不仅仅是党员。    KINGSLAND, Ga. -- A man who spent more than 16 years in prison in Florida on a wrongful conviction was shot and killed Monday by a sheriff's deputy in Georgia during a traffic stop, authorities and representatives said.Leonard Allen Cure, 53, was identified by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, which is reviewing the shooting.His death was confirmed by Seth Miller, executive director of the Innocence Project of Florida, which represented Cure in his exoneration case.Miller said he was devastated by the news, which he heard from Cure's family.“I can only imagine what it’s like to know your son is innocent and watch him be sentenced to life in prison, to be exonerated and ... then be told that once he’s been freed, he’s been shot dead," Miller said. "I can’t imagine as a parent what that feels like.”The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said a Camden County deputy pulled over a driver along Interstate 95 near the Georgia-Florida line and the driver got out of the car at the deputy’s request. He cooperated at first but became violent after he was told he was being arrested, a GBI news release said.The agency said preliminary information shows the deputy shocked the driver with a stun gun when he failed to obey commands, and the driver then began assaulting the deputy. The GBI said the deputy again tried using the stun gun and a baton to subdue him, then drew his gun and shot the driver when he continued to resist.The agency didn't say what prompted the deputy to pull over Cure's vehicle.Miller couldn't comment specifically on Cure's death but said he has represented dozens of people convicted of crimes who were later exonerated.“Even when they’re free, they always struggled with the concern, the fear that they’ll be convicted and incarcerated again for something they didn’t do,” he said.It is customary for Georgia law enforcement agencies to ask the GBI to investigate shootings involving officers. The agency said it will submit its findings to the district attorney for the coastal Brunswick Judicial Circuit, which includes Camden County.Cure was convicted of the 2003 armed robbery of a drug store in Florida's Dania Beach and sentenced to life in prison because he had previous convictions for robbery and other crimes.But the case had issues from the start and his conviction came from a second jury after the first one deadlocked. In 2020, the Broward State Attorney’s Office new Conviction Review Unit asked a judge to release Cure from prison. Broward’s conviction review team said it found “troubling” revelations that Cure had solid alibis that were previously disregarded and no physical evidence or solid witnesses to put him at the scene. An independent review panel of five local lawyers concurred with the findings.Cure was released that April after his sentenced was modified. That December, a judge vacated his conviction and sentence.“I’m looking forward to putting this situation behind me and moving on with my life,” Cure told the South Florida Sun Sentinel at the time. In June, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a claims bill granting Cure $817,000 in compensation for his conviction and imprisonment along with educational benefits.Miller said Cure, who lived in a suburb of Atlanta, received the money in August.“The Leonard we knew was a smart, funny and kind person,” Broward State Attorney Harold F. Pryor said in a statement to the Sun Sentinel Monday evening. “After he was freed and exonerated by our office, he visited prosecutors at our office and participated in training to help our staff do their jobs in the fairest and most thorough way possible. He would frequently call to check in on Assistant State Attorney Arielle Demby Berger, the head of the Conviction Review Unit, and offer our team encouragement to continue to do the important work of justice.”。

三 | 此外，他提请注意许多美国人既不与共和党也不与民主党有联系的事实，并提议扩大排名选择投票的可能性，以便可以表明对其他党派候选人的偏好。

5月9日，斯塔夫里迪斯在媒体的一篇文章中表示，有必要使俄罗斯城市加里宁格勒中立，这样位于立陶宛和波兰边境的苏瓦乌基走廊就不会落入莫斯科的控制之下。这位前北约总司令还称加里宁格勒是爱沙尼亚、拉脱维亚、立陶宛和北约其他国家之间的地理楔子。

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