"However, if Moscow regains control over Ukraine, with its 52 million people and major resources as well as access to the Black Sea, Russia automatically again regains the wherewithal to become a powerful imperial state, spanning Europe and Asia."

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Source : Zbigniew Brzezinski (2007). “The Grand Chessboard”, p.49, Basic Books

Zbigniew Brzezinski

#Powerful Quotes #Ukraine Quotes #Europe Quotes

“The reason mountain climbers are tied together is to keep the sane ones from going home.”
“Donâ€™t trade the ultimate for the immediate. Donâ€™t settle for less, wait for Godâ€™s best.”
“Keep your head down at school.' Those are sage words from my dad. They kept me in check for years.”
“Small changes can magnifiy. The possibility of interpersonal communication has increased substantially with contemporary technology. But as compared with the major changes, which were long ago, these are not huge.”
“Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over.”
“This was very exciting. I'd never had two boys get into a fight over me before. The fact that one of the boys was my stepbrother, however, and held about as much romantic appeal for me as Max, the family dog, somewhat dampened my enthusiasm. And Michael wasn't much of a catch, either, when you actually thought about it, being a potential murderer and all. Oh, why did I have to have such a couple of losers fighting over me? Why couldn't Matt Damon and Ben Affleck fight over me? Now that would be truly excellent.”
“Saigon was an addicted city, and we were the drug: the corruption of children, the mutilation of young men, the prostitution of women, the humiliation of the old, the division of the family, the division of the country-it had all been done in our name. . . . The French city . . . had represented the opium stage of the addiction. With the Americans had begun the ***** phase.”
“My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.”

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