Quotes About Geopolitics

Iran's goal is to gain control of the Two Holy Mosques.

Russia will invade Ukraine, probably within the next few weeks. They will annex the Crimea. From there, if they meet no resistance from the West, they will take more of the country

appears that they want what the Russians have, the new oil and gold discoveries.

After 1945 what happened was rather the opposite [to that of WWI], boundaries stayed broadly intact and people were moved instead.

2012 Phnom Penh meeting indicated that the South China Sea issue was beginning to affect the ASEAN-China relationship.

any American effort to decouple itself from China could well result in America decoupling itself from the world.

The main obstacle to further progress on the resource curse is China, and to a lesser extent India.

There is a cold war on the go. America and Russia are competing for the hearts and minds of Indians, Iraquies, Nigerians; scholarships to universities are among the inducements they offer.

The 'Axis of Evil' was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well.

Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.

Obama is under incredible pressure to supply arms to Ukraine.

If any country deserves American support, Ukraine does.

Putin sought to destabilize Ukraine's economy.

Our basic problem is how do we stop the hot war on the ground in Ukraine, and not get into a more and more escalatory relationship with Putin.

Trump has actually been tougher on Ukraine than President Obama was. The first thing he did was put sanctions on Russia as it relates to the Ukraine.

The more Mr. Putin extends the fighting in eastern Ukraine, the more the financial markets will ratchet up their own pressure on Russia.

Russia has done more than any other country to support the independent Ukrainian state, including for many years subsidising its economy through low energy prices.

There is total unanimity that the most serious threat facing the United States and Israel is a nuclear-armed Iran.

If Japan had been near to either England or France, war would have broken out long ago.

When I went to war, I did not go making geopolitical calculations. I went to war with a lust.

If we let Korea down, the Soviet[s] will keep right on going and swallow up one [place] after another.

The Iranians don't intimidate! They're like the Vietnamese and the Iraqis. You want to start a war with them? They'll still be fighting in fifty years!

Islamic killers are over here because we are over there.

of the 53,000,000 square miles which (excluding the polar regions) constitute the land area of the globe, only 6,000,000 square miles had non-white governments, and nearly two-thirds of this relatively modest remainder was represented by China and its dependencies. Since