Quotes About Geopolitics

the Arab world is more than five hundred times the size of the Jewish state.

NATO expansion and Russian expansion - one leads to the other, and one reflects the other.

America is not really a strong enough state for us to regard it as an enemy of Russia.

With regards to the expansion of NATO, I see it as a mistake, even a provocation in a way.

Vladimir Putin is creating an axis of authoritarian regimes that he will lead.

Prudence dictates that there should be a balance of power in the Asia-Pacific region.

The Middle East is a region where predictions go to die.

The ASEAN is located at the center of the Indo-Pacific region and is critical for achieving a Free and Open Indo-Pacific.

The historic quarrels between Japan and Korea pale in importance to the bigger question of extent of U.S. commitment to the defense of the region.

Israel has been absent for many years from entire regions in the world.

Hillary Clinton and John Kerry have left the U.S. with better relations with Iran and Cuba and worse relations with allies like Israel.

Historians are going to look back on rising China and say America, at least under the Bush years, did not get that wrong.

Bogging down large armies in historically complex, dangerous areas ends in disaster.

I have a hostile country on my western border. On the north of us, we have China. These two countries are going to collude.

Hungary needs Russia.

It's becoming plainer and plainer that what is going on in South America and in South-Eastern Asia is directly related to the war in Russia, for they are all parts of one single Great World War.

Outside the walls, among others, is the Soviet Empire. It is malevolent, destructive and expanding. It has swallowed up over half a dozen countries since World War II.

After World War II, we awoke to find our wartime ally, Stalin, had emerged as a greater enemy than Germany or Japan. Stalin's empire stretched from the Elbe to the Pacific.

World War II and the ensuing Cold War compelled the United States to develop a sustained commitment to Western Europe and the Far East.

The People's Republic of China poses the greatest threat to America today, and the greatest threat to democracy and freedom world-wide since World War II.

Wishful thinking won't make the Palestinians an Israeli peace partner, no matter how much President Barack Obama pressures Israel to make concessions; caustically mocking Putin's worldview won't make it any less real or mitigate the Russian threat.

When the President of Iran talks about removing Israel from the face of the Earth and is building nuclear bombs with a range of 3000km, you have to be worried.

There's a tendency on the part of Americans, all of us, to say, 'Hey, the Cold War is over, the Soviet Union is gone, we don't have to worry about these guys again.' We always have to be worried about them, we always have to be concerned about them, and we have to be well-informed.

I'm worried for a war to break out between Saudi Arabia and Iran, even though I rule it out.