Quotes About Geopolitics

Mikheil Saakashvili can claim that 80 per cent of Georgians wanted to join NATO; on the other hand, a similar percentage of Russians would almost certainly support Putin's quest for a strong Russia. We would mistake this mood at our peril.

I think if NATO haven't expanded, we would have a no-man's zone between the E.U. and NATO and Russia, and that would be very dangerous.

I would not be happy. If North Korea does a nuclear test, I will not be happy. And I can tell you also, I don't believe that the president of China, who is a very respected man, will be happy either.

The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.

If we can have a good relationship with Russia and if Russia would help us get rid of ISIS, frankly, as far as I'm concerned, that would be a positive thing, not a negative thing.

If we could get along with Russia, that's a positive thing. We have a very talented man, Rex Tillerson, who is going to be meeting with them shortly.

If America would withdraw from South Korea, there could be a power struggle between such as China and Japan.

Fourthly, a very great proportion of Asia and Africa, with some part of Europe, are Mahometans; and those in Persia, who are of the sect of Hali, are the most inveterate enemies to the Turks; and they in return abhor the Persians.

The war in Iraq, clearly has not turned out in the way that was hoped.

Whoever is lord of Malacca has his hand on the throat of Venice.—Tomé

from China's point of view, this is the first stage of a very long process of reducing the United States to something like a traditional Chinese client state.

the thirty-eighth parallel, selected by the Americans and the Russians back in 1945 as the dividing line between the two Koreas, as a border at all.

Poor Mexico. So far from God and so close to the United States.

By God, we will make the fire eat up half of Isreal if it tries to do anything against Iraq.

And God willing, with the force of God behind it, we shall soon experience a world without the United States and Zionism.

Thank God for the Saudis and Prince Bandar, and for our Qatari friends.

Australia is very good friends with China, perhaps better friends than America is.

Russia a very powerful nuclear country and so is America. If we have a good relationship with Russia, believe me, that's a good thing, not a bad thing.

I don't know Putin. He said nice things about me. If we got along well, that would be good. If Russia and the United States got along well and went after ISIS, that would be good.

Russians don't want to fight ISIS in Syria. They want to leave that to us. Aside from that, I don't know what are the objectives that Mr. Trump seeks in having a good relationship with Mr. Putin.

The United States being in Asia is unambiguously a good thing for the region.

We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington.

The US wants to subdue Russia, to solve US problems at Russia's expense. No one in history ever managed to do this to Russia, and no one ever will.

History tells me that when the Russians come to a country they don't go back.