Quotes About Geopolitics

Ideology, wherever it exists, is almost invariably pressed into the service of local geopolitics. In short, we witness the role of anti-Byzantine impulses facilitating the Islamic conquest in many of the Semitic regions.

In the eyes of Muslim fundamentalists, contemporary Western geopolitics in the Middle East are a continuation of the Crusades by modern means and so must be resisted to the death.

Les parece de lo más normal apoyar a tiranos y golpes de estado, como si los gobernantes de otras naciones fueran meras piezas de sus jueguitos geopolíticos. El comportamiento de sus policías es más propio de un estado dictatorial que de un país que cacarea la libertad como su valor más preciado. Sus políticas llevan a la proliferación del caos, del odio, de la intolerancia.

Unification is one thing, and stability in Northeast Asia is another thing.

The Ukraine has a long history of either being part of the Soviet Union or within that sphere.

The purpose of the European Union expansion is to bring stability to the East, and ultimately, that stability will come to Russia. There is no long term reason that Russia can't be part of the same peaceful community of nations.

For the European Union, Russia is as important politically and economically as China is to the U.S.

When I came to the Senate in 1997, the world was being redefined by forces no single country controlled or understood. The implosion of the Soviet Union and a historic diffusion of economic and geopolitical power created new influences and established new global power centers - and new threats.

By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.

NATO was built to counteract the Soviet Union in its day and time. At this point there is no threat coming from the Soviet Union, because there is no Soviet Union anymore. And where there was the Soviet Union once, there is now a number of countries, among them the new and democratic Russia.

The U.K. outside of the European Union will end up being a mid-sized economy, somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, in neither America nor Europe.

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1989, Reagan and Thatcher displayed Churchillian magnanimity towards Gorbachev's broken nation. Relations were never better. There was no triumphalism.

If we can deter the Soviet Union, if we can deter North Korea, why on earth can't we deter Iran?

The good Lord didn't see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratically elected regimes friendly to the United States. Occasionally we have to operate in places where, all considered, one would not normally choose to go. But we go where the business is.

Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.

I believe the government of the United States should re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stance toward the Palestinian cause.

We clearly need to break our addiction on Saudi Arabian oil that is a security threat to the United States.

Putin wants to restore the Russian empire. That's his ambition; he's stated it many times.

The Americans have claimed they want to completely stop Iran's oil exports. They don't understand the meaning of this statement, because it has no meaning for Iranian oil not to be exported, while the region's oil is exported.

Our relationship with Egypt is very, very important. And I would want them to remain an ally. I don't want to see that official status change.

The responsible choice? Steer clear of business with Iran.

Clearly, the Iranians are well aware that Teheran would be turned into a field of glass and sand if they ever stepped toward open war with Israel or Saudi Arabia.

Nobody heard of Vietnam until there was a war," Ali once proclaimed. "Nobody heard of Korea until there was a war. Nobody heard of Zaire until I fought there, and paying me is a whole lot cheaper than fighting a war."9

To the extent that anyone has leverage over North Korea, it's China.