Quotes About Geopolitics

A missile from North Korea would take 38 minutes to reach Los Angeles.

Graham made a dramatic proposal to Kelly and McMaster. "China needs to kill him and replace him with a North Korean general they control," Graham said. China had at least enough control so the North would not attack. "I think the Chinese are clearly the key here and they need to take him out. Not us, them.

Russia has always been very careful to try to balance the interest of the Gulf states and Iran off against each other.

The truth of the matter is that Iran is a cancer.

There's an 800 kilometer border between Iran and Afghanistan.

It is a natural goal of Iran to try and expel the Fifth Fleet from Bahrain.

I think it's reality that Iran is going to have influence in Iraq. All elements of Iraq accepted that.

Any claim between the U.S. and Iran, any conflict is bad for Iraq.

America was cool with Saddam Hussein when he was killing Iranians.

The Iranians don't want the same thing we do in Iraq, not really; they want to control Iraq... the Ayatollah hates the United States; the Iranians are enemies of the United States.

The concern is that Iraq could actually ultimately defeat ISIS, but Iran will have taken over the country, because it will be their military, their boots on the ground controlling the ground.

The real concern for the Russians is that they're going to get closed out, that there's gong to be a new 'Iron Curtain'... for European expansion and all of its institutional forms.

Take it from someone who fled the Iron Curtain: I know what happens when you give the Russians a green light.

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

There is no part of the world that is irrelevant to the United States anymore.

Afghanistan was always a backwater in the Islamic world.

Israel can never feel that it is in a safe place.

You in Lebanon, your power is no match to Israel. Israel, militarily, is more powerful than you and maybe it is more powerful than all the Arab countries, or most of them.

No border that touches Israel is always secure.

Israel sees the world just beyond its borders collapsing.

One of the greatest fears of the Arab world is a direct conflict between Israel and the Islamic State.

Italy is a geographical expression.

Italy has no colonial past in Iran.

So China will be having to make some choices as to whose side it wants to be on. Hopefully, this will be the beginning of a major improvement in our relationship with them, if they choose correctly.