Quotes About Geopolitics

A country that armed Stalin to defeat Hitler can certainly work alongside enemies of al-Qaida to defeat al-Qaida.

North Korea's whole idea is to create a crisis to solve a crisis. They're so poor and they're so desperate that they realize that this bombastic rhetoric can drive the South Korean stock market down and get the U.S. in a tizzy. And it's a game they've been playing for many, many years.

I think what you can see is that we have worked very closely with China. China has really stood up in putting the pressure on North Korea.

Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.

We may be a little bit late - we are late - coming to the recognition that we are in a strategic competition with China.

We are aware of the strategic location of Kuwait, besides the stable region.

American strategic doctrine suggests that Mexico is of second-level importance to the United States. It ranks below Japan and Indonesia, Brazil and India, Egypt and Israel, and European powers including Britain, France, and Germany. This is a grave geopolitical miscalculation.

There isn't a doubt that Iran constitutes the single most important single-country strategic challenge to the United States and to the kind of Middle East that we want to see.

Poland is an attractive country, and first and foremost it's got a very important strategic location in Europe.

for Britain and the U.S. They expected them to give weapons to the Ukrainian army so it can better fight the Russians, because until now all they had given the country, said Nadya, was the equivalent of feeding "a fly to a dog"—in other words, nothing

Even though Europe and China sustained roughly similar populations (about 120 million people in 1600) and were spread over roughly the same area (10 million square kilometres), Europe remained a patchwork of small sovereignties whereas China found itself over and over again reunified as a single state.

The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.

If you could wean yourself off of oil and not be dependent on the Middle East, obviously it's better.

Iraq is not about oil.

Although most Americans don't know it, the U.S. gets more oil from Canada than it does from the entire Middle East.

America did not invade Iraq because Iraqis are Muslims. Oil, money, economic interests. Who knows? But it was not because Iraqis are Muslims.

What is the one country in the Middle East that has not been attacked by ISIS? One. That is Iran. That is more than happenstance, I'm sure.

Getty's 55-cent-a-barrel royalty to the Saudis loomed over Aminoil's 35-cent royalty to Kuwait, the roughly 33-cent royalty that Aramco had just been compelled to pay the Saudis—and far overshadowed the 16½ cents that Anglo-Iranian and the Iraq Petroleum Company were paying in Iran and Iraq respectively, as well as the 15-cent royalty that the Kuwait Oil Company was paying.

the $25 billion, 2,800-mile ESPO (Eastern Siberia–Pacific Ocean) oil pipeline. In 2005, just 5 percent of Russia's oil exports went to China. It rose to almost 30 percent, and Russia eclipsed Saudi Arabia as China's number one supplier.

Almost a year later, in the summer of 2019, the Russians and Chinese began joint air patrols in the Pacific.

Cornell off to realise another impossible dream, righting more geopolitical wrongs. In a way, she thought, you had to admire someone like that. They burned brighter than ordinary mortals.

These were conquests that were never reversed, and they affected the whole geopolitics of Europe and Asia ever after.7

Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year.

A more immediate issue concerns North Korea, to which Bismarck's nineteenth-century aphorism surely applies: "We live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.