Quotes About Geopolitics

Jinými slovy ?e?eno, nová mluslimská geopolitika z poloviny devadesátých let 20. století nebyla reakcí na západní zasahování, nýbrž na ne?innost tvá?í v tvá? genocid? a etnickým ?istkám [v bývalé Jugoslávii].

By June 1974, Treasury Secretary George Shultz was already suggesting that rising oil prices could result in a 'highly advantageous mutual bargain' between the United States and petroleum-producing countries in the Middle East.

I believe that if you treat China as an enemy, then it is likely to become one.

The stakes are high," Musharraf told Bush over a secure telephone. "We are with you." Yet it was obvious from the start that Musharraf saw Afghanistan and Al Qaeda through his own prism. "In almost every conversation we had," Bush recalled, "Musharraf accused India of wrongdoing."12

Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China.

I think there is something about countries and nations that is hard to define. And, in fact, that's probably why we create such massive boundaries - because it's so slippery where they begin and where they end.

It's never easy to be a small country next to a big neighbor.

Rare earth elements are crucial for the electronics industry but are mostly found in China. (Rare earths are located everywhere in small quantities, but the Chinese rare earth industry makes up 97 percent of the world trade.

If Kuwait grew carrots we wouldn't give a damn.

Israel is the only truly democratic, secular country in the Middle East, right in the middle of all of them.

In addition, according to credible press reports, U.S. Special Operations now uses African air bases in Burkina Faso, South Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Djibouti, and the Seychelles to gather information on and target al-Qaeda-inspired militant groups in Mali, Niger, Yemen, Somalia, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, and Sudan.16 That's necessary

The way that Soviet intelligence tried to reshape the balance of power in the Middle East is essential to understand the developments that led to the outbreak of the Six-Day War.

Why, a quarter of a century after the Cold War, do we still have 28,000 troops in Korea?

[In Bolivia] We want to overcome our historical problems with Chile. The sea has divided us and the sea must bring us back together again.

China is a rising adversary. So one of the things we have to do if we want China's support is to push back on China.

The Danes are causing a bit of trouble. The kingdom of Denmark claimed the North Pole as their own. Hey, you can't just reach out and take something if you want it, Denmark. That's Russia's job.

In this day and age, the U.S. and Europe do not have the luxury of focusing solely on a single region.

Of course, China is a key to the North Korea if we're going to solve that riddle, but they could also be helpful on Iraq, which is why it's important that we maintain a constructive dialogue with China.

The fact that the Bush administration, and those in Europe who have followed its 9/11-inspired agenda, somehow believe that the future of the world is being played out in the Middle East and Central Asia rather than East Asia has only served to accelerate China's rise and the U.S.'s decline.

Location, location, location, the realtors say. Geography is destiny, respond the historians.

The alliance between the US and Pakistan is thus predominantly between the US and the Pakistani military.

Iraq is the last great frontier in the Middle East … . In Iraq, 80 per cent of the oil wells ever drilled have been discoveries. —David Horgan, chief executive of the Irish oil company Petrel, January 20072

I've often said that the ISIS-Syria-Iraq mess is about as bad as it could be.

American power in the Middle East is collapsing. It doesn't need much more than a shove, and it will - and that's not going to be a good thing.