Geopolitical Tensions Quotes

If you look in the Muslim World right now, the Shia, the Sunni Muslims are standing at the brink of a pit of fire started by Western intervention and influence in pitting them against each other by exploiting their divisions. So the stage is set for war in that area of the world that would destroy that area as completely as what they are calling the failed state Libya making Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq failed states.

Peace and security both in Europe and in the Pacific still depend on a balance of power.

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.

Russian control of Korea would be a dagger pointed at the heart of Japan,.

Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother.

Both Bibi and Obama realize that they are going to have to face the problem of Iran together.

U.S. analysts estimate that Russian military expenditures have tripled during the Bush-Putin years, in large measure a predicted reaction to the Bush administration's militancy and aggressiveness.

There is a connection between energy, climate, food and political stability. That has played out in the Arab awakening and is not done playing out.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.”

On the global scale, if there's a shaky Middle East, there's a shaky world.

The United States does not believe in durable coexistence with a moral threat.

The world is in America. In Italy is only Italy. France is full of France. Germany is full of Germany. In a continent that contains the entire world, contradictions are, of course, constantly arising.

Let me speak for myself: The Russians are not our friends.

These four mongrels are supposed to be our defense against Communism and the extremes of Arab Nationalism in the Middle East.

I am neither a sociologist nor a psychologist, but you don't have to be one to see that Turkey is in a vortex of problems, isolated from the world.

If there are tensions between America and China, we will be asked to pick a side. It may not be directly, but you will get the message that, 'We would like you to be with us, and are you with us? If not, does that mean you're against us?' And that's to put it gently.

For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the Axis -- an American decision that this is sport, or that it is business.

And most worryingly, it wouldn't surprise me if Putin ends up starting a major military conflict with the West at some point in the future to save his own skin as head of state in Russia.

If Iran gets a nuclear weapon, its influence and that of Hamas and Hezbollah are strengthened.

With regards to Trump's treatment of Putin and Russia, national security experts and journalists have been citing the fact pattern and saying there's something strange going on.

The Japanese will not be opposed to America keeping Okinawa because the Okinowans are not Japanese.

Fundamentally, we have to recognize that Iran is not a partner.

America’s foreign policy has left us with more enemies and fewer allies.

Neoconservatives believe that we can only be defined by having an enemy.

Because we didn't cooperate with China, we gave them motivation to develop their own capability. You know, they developed a very capable rocket system, very capable spacecraft. And if we don't cooperate with them in the future, they're going to develop more capable systems. If we're working together on a highly visible project, there is going to be much less, or there is going to be motivation for each country to not get into a conflict or any kind of tension in the military sense.