Kimberly Zisk Marten famous quotes

I think Russia must have been very embarrassed by Syria's use of chemical weapons because it really undercut Putin's role back in 2013 in saying he had helped get rid of Syria's weapons.
-- Kimberly Zisk Marten

#Thinking #Embarrassed

Putin is somebody who really respects strength.
-- Kimberly Zisk Marten

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We have to be concerned that Russia is also increasing its military influence in Egypt, potentially in Libya, also in Afghanistan.
-- Kimberly Zisk Marten

#Military #Influence #Afghanistan

It is clear that there would nothing a U.N. Security Council resolution that condemned Syria because Syria is Russia's ally, and Russia has a veto in the U.N. Security Council.
-- Kimberly Zisk Marten

#Resolution #Syria #Security

I don't think that we're necessarily going to see the U.S. and Russia becoming out and out military competitors against each other.
-- Kimberly Zisk Marten

#Military #Thinking

Russia has the ability to control Ukraine's economic future because of the natural gas pipeline link. And as a result, that means that Russia has just all along been in a stronger bargaining position.
-- Kimberly Zisk Marten

#Mean #Stronger #Economic

Vladimir Putin would like to have more influence in Ukraine. He would like to have Ukraine always knocked slightly off balance so that they don't know what he might do next. He would like to demonstrate that he has more power than the Ukrainians do. And so certainly by making a frozen conflict situation where Ukraine never really has a definitive sense of sovereignty over its own territory, that's in Putin's interest.
-- Kimberly Zisk Marten

#Balance #Influence #Conflict

Vladimir Putin doesn't really gain anything economically from annexation of Crimea. It's more a gain of power. It's a gain of what he can say to his home population about what he's accomplished as president. And so it's really much more an individual gain for Putin politically than for Russia as a state, because over the long term, Russia is not going to particularly benefit from this.
-- Kimberly Zisk Marten

#Home #Long #President

I'm not sure about whether Ukraine will ever be joining. As long as there's a frozen conflict on Ukrainian territory, they can't possibly join. And that's probably one of the reasons why Vladimir Putin is interested in having a frozen conflict there, so that there is no border security.
-- Kimberly Zisk Marten

#Long #Conflict #Reason

Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.

Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.

I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.

We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.

Everyone gets the feeling that they know you and they know your life, and I felt really embarrassed by that.

Every time I fumble or drop a ball I am embarrassed.