It has to be admitted that starving nations never seem to be quite so starving that they cannot afford to have far more expensive armaments than anybody else.
T.H. WhiteStichwörter: war starvation nations weaponry geopolitics
[American exceptionalism] is a reaction to the inability of people to understand global complexity or important issues like American energy dependency. Therefore, they search for simplistic sources of comfort and clarity. And the people that they are now selecting to be, so to speak, the spokespersons of their anxieties are, in most cases, stunningly ignorant.
Zbigniew BrzezińskiStichwörter: foreign-policy ignorance populism american-exceptionalism geopolitics american-people
Most Americans are close to total ignorance about the world. They are ignorant. That is an unhealthy condition in a country in which foreign policy has to be endorsed by the people if it is to be pursued. And it makes it much more difficult for any president to pursue an intelligent policy that does justice to the complexity of the world.
Zbigniew BrzezińskiStichwörter: foreign-policy ignorance americans populism geopolitics
For the first time we can perceive something of the real proportion of features and events on the stage of the whole world, and may seek a formula which shall express certain aspects, at any rate, of geographical causation in universal history.
Halford John MackinderStichwörter: geopolitics
It's when the 'international community' expresses 'concern' about your 'situation' that your situation is well and truly fucked.
Michael D. WeissStichwörter: politics war cynicism inaction twitter syria geopolitics international-community syrian-civil-war
The New START accord cuts the strategic nuclear arsenals on each side to 1,550 warheads. Can any of its critics make a case that our security would be imperiled if, the very next day, Obama and Medvedev made moves to take the levels down to 1,000—then to 500?
If so, come show us the math. If not, it may be time to stop making arms control so politically complicated—time to stop letting arms control get in the way of disarmament.
Stichwörter: politics united-states russia barack-obama nuclear-weapons new-start national-security geopolitics arms-control dmitry-medvedev nuclear-disarmament
Can't you see there's a determinism about the fate of nations? They all seem to get what they deserve in the long run.
Malcolm LowryStichwörter: politics determinism history fate destiny nations karma geopolitics just-desserts
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