Quotes About Geopolitics

The Chinese are like a tank through a corn field, they just keep mowing through it. Senators want sanctions against countries supporting cyberattacks.

Putin wants to reestablish Russian greatness, not as the Cold War, but in 19th century empire terms.

The Russians and the Chinese have been absolutely clear they don't want to see Iran with a nuclear weapon.

We know that russians are deeply engaged in supporting Assad because they want to have a place in the Middle East. They have a naval base, they have an air base in Syria.

God created war so that Americans would learn geography.

The wars of the twenty-first century will be fought over water.

The Cold War may be 'over' for the West. For the Soviets it has entered a new, active and promising phase.

The Iraq War is largely about oil.

The next World War will be over water

It is not permissible for a Muslim to buy products of the countries that are in a state of war with Islam and Muslims, for example, Israel.

It is no coincidence that when the thugs tried to wrest control over Grenada, there were 30 Soviet advisors and hundreds of Cuban military and paramilitary forces on the island.

If we were building our navy, rather than reducing our navy to pre-World War I levels, China would not be thinking about increasing its navy to take over the South China Sea.

The Cold War is over. The world has become much more complicated.

The U.S. along with China, Japan, South Korea and Russia has an important role to play in containing North Korea's nuclear ambitions and exerting all the influence we can possibly exert.

History shows that you can't - you can't have security in Southeast Asia without security in Northeast Asia. It's just the reality.

Mexico is becoming the northern part of Latin America, not the U.S.A.'s southern outpost.

The external Soviet empire lasted 45 years. It is shattered, beyond redemption or repair.

The number one foreign policy goal of Russia is control of the former Soviet space.

By the 1970s, Western sanctions had hollowed out the Soviet economy. Ultimately, however, what brought down the Soviets was their inability to repair the catastrophic damage that began with the meeting of Igor Gouzenko and the RCMP.

If U.S. mistakes in the Middle East helped Putin raise Russia's global profile, China's missteps and hubris in East and Southeast Asia, once called Indo-China, have opened up new spaces for India's profile to be raised.

Seventeenth-century West Africa was even more politically fragmented than Europe. A map prepared by Thornton shows more than sixty different states of wildly varying size.

The drumbeat of negative forecasts had its effect: the United States and the European powers rushed to control every drop of oil in the Middle East, Latin America, and Africa. In light of the last eighty years of history in these regions, it is hard to view these moves as enduring successes.

We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.

Most of the conversation about how geopolitics is changing in the 21st century focuses on the shift from west to east and on how we're moving from the bipolar power equation of the Cold War to a new bipolar relationship, that of the U.S. and China, that determines the mood music for everyone else.