Quotes About Geopolitics

The United States is the most powerful nation on Earth and it just can't walk away from the Middle East and central Asia and the Horn of Africa.

There are but few naval powers, but there are many land powers.

Years ago, I predicted that Iran would take over Iraq. Iran and Iraq used to fight back and forth.

For all those who seek to maintain the rules-based international order, Russia presents a challenge.

The Cold War is over. The kind of authority that the presidents asserted during the Cold War has now been diminished.

All the historical pretenders to global power originated in Eurasia.

We are a primary target for the Iranian regime... We won't wait for the battle to be in Saudi Arabia. Instead, we'll work so that the battle is for them in Iran.

It's no surprise that hackers working for North Korea, Iran's mullahs, Vladimir V. Putin in Russia, and the People's Liberation Army of China have all learned that the great advantage of cyberweapons is that they are the opposite of a nuke: hard to detect, easy to deny, and increasingly finely targeted.

ISIS despises the Russian government for its support of the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, and so it's no surprise that ISIS began targeting Russia in 2015, around the same time that Russia first intervened in the Syrian civil war.

The targets of George W. Bush's 'axis of evil' speech were not Iraq, Iran and North Korea. Those regimes don't need a State of the Union address to know where they stand with the Bush administration. The intended audience was elsewhere: in France, Russia and China.

Who will establish himself finally in the Caucasus, who will use the oil and the extremely important roads leading to the heart of Asia, the Revolution or the Entente—that is the whole question.[385]

Often overlooked in the United States is that while we have many allies, Russia and China have none, only clients, giving the United States a unique advantage.

British territory did cover nearly a quarter of the earth.

The basic lesson of 1805–7 was that not only must the three eastern monarchies unite but the Russian army must already be positioned in central Europe when military operations began.

one-quarter of the world's land surface changed hands between 1876 and 1915,

Just to take a couple steps back historically, Korea, as you can see, is located among what we call big countries. And historically we've always been the victim of numerous invasions and whatnot.

Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.

Of other countries, to impose economic sanctions, it'd really begin to dry up the enormous amount of money coming into North Korea, a lot of it from China - from Chinese banks - whereas, if we sanction the Chinese banks, there could be friction with China. But this is something we're going to have to face.

While President Putin is busy redrawing the map of Europe, President Obama is busy filling out his brackets.

I don't think for a minute we went to Iraq for oil. It just so happened that it had oil. But I think we'll come out of the Iraqi situation with a call on their oil at market price.

China should be America's primary national security focus going forward.

The Chinese go around with lollipops in their pockets. They have aid. They have friendship deals. They build you a Prime Minister's office or President's office or Parliament House or Foreign Ministry. For them, trade is an extension of their foreign policy.

We see West Asia as part of our extended neighbourhood.

I think the Sino-American relationship is the most important geo-strategic question facing us.