Quotes About Geopolitics

Before terminating at the Berlin Wall, the front in the Cold War ran through the hellish jungles of Vietnam to the oases and deceptively idyllic dunes of the Middle East.

the Sinai Peninsula

But, the source explained, this fit Putin's larger strategic vision: "to destroy NATO, destroy the European Union, and seriously harm the United States.

The hand that mixes the Georgetown martini," Henry Kissinger observed, "is time and again the hand that guides the destiny of the Western world.

Let Jordan take the West Bank, let Egypt take Gaza. Let them deal with it. Or sink trying. The Saudis are on the brink, Egyptians are on the brink, all scared to death of Persia . . . Yemen, Sinai, Libya . . . this thing is bad. . . . That's why Russia is so key. . . . Is Russia that bad? They're bad guys. But the world is full of bad guys." Bannon offered all this with something like ebullience—a man remaking the world.

China was the first front in a new cold war. And it had all been misunderstood

Trump was a cold war president and China was his enemy

Le président Porochenko affirme que Poutine lui aurait déclaré en septembre 2014 que "si [il] le voulait, les troupes russes pourraient arriver en deux jours, non seulement à Kiev, mais aussi à Riga, Vilnius, Tallinn, Varsovie et Bucarest", dans des États membres de l'Union européenne et de l'Otan.

The mutual trust that emerged with the end of the Cold War was severely shaken a few years later by NATO's decision to expand to the east. Russia had no option but to draw its own conclusions from that.

Well, first of all, we now have everybody with the exception of India, Pakistan, and Israel, and I don't think these three countries are going to join by simply providing them an incentive, in terms of technology.

Recordemos que el planeta estaba sumido en plena Guerra Fría y la batalla entre el mundo libre y el totalitarismo marxista abarcaba obviamente el continente americano, en donde el país trasandino por su posicionamiento geopolítico era una de las prioridades de la Unión Soviética.

We'll do anything to get rid of that excess hardware from the Cold War, and someday it's going to come back to haunt us.

China, in the future, is going to have even more nuclear capability than it has had in the past. I don't believe that they have anything to fear from the United States, and I frankly don't believe they do fear the United States.

The Languages, Peoples and History of the U.S.S.R.

Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength; Put and Libya were her allies.