Tag: Geopolitics

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2008-10-06 Handing back control of the Israeli-occupied West Bank to the Palestinians as part of a peace deal would simply strengthen the hand of Israel's Iranian foe.
"Any area we withdraw from will be taken over by Iran and its proxies.
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Both Lebanon and Gaza have become Iranian bases, and they would get a third one if we retreat from the West Bank."
-- According to Benjamin Netanyahu
2008-09 Poland, by hosting part of the USA missile shield defence system, wants to make sure that there are "US boots" on its soil as an additional guarantee against Russian appetites.
-- According to Radoslaw Sikorski, Polish Foreign Minister, in an interview
2008-08-18 A powerful Russian naval contingent, led by the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov and including the Russian Navy’s biggest missile cruiser Moskva and at least four nuclear missile submarines, left Murmansk on the Barents Sea to dock at the Syrian Mediterranean port of Tartus Saturday, Aug. 23.
2008-04 France and Germany blocked the Membership Action Plans for Georgia and Ukraine.
2008-02-02 First whether America will face this next rough patch without losing heart. Afghanistan cannot succeed as a democracy, nor as a new state defying centuries of tradition. To remake societies is beyond the capacity of any nation. America as a superpower has global responsibilities -- but that's not one of them. Utopias have no place in geopolitics.
-- Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's Minister Mentor, interviewed by Arnaud de Borchgrave
answering the question, "what concerns you most about the next 10 years, including WMD terrorism?"
2008-01-24 "It's the premise of capitalism that people own shares to maximize value. But if you think of an investment made by a state fund, there could be multiple motives. Perhaps we want the airline to fly to our country, perhaps we want the bank to do extensive business in the country, suppose we want suppliers in our country to be sourced, perhaps we want some disablement of a competitor for our country's national champion. When there's no assurance that value maximization is not being pursued, there is a potential question."
-- Larry Summers, former USA Treasury Secretary, in panel of World Economic Forum, Davos
2008-01 "For the political ‘Road Map’ involving Israel and Palestine to be successful, the ‘Palestinian Development Map’ must first be implemented.”
-- Don Beck, American founder of the Global Centers for Human Emergence, at the “Palestine 21” project
2007-11-17 "Whoever the next president is, the new administration will be extremely disappointed if it believes that our relationships will mend because its leader has a different name . . . . Personal diplomacy and relationship-building, although important, are rarely the paramount drivers of global affairs. These are shaped importantly by the long-term national interest."
-- Henry Kisinger, interview with the WSJ
2007-11-01 A nuclear Iran will not start by attacking Israel or Europe with nuclear weapons; it will use them as a shield for a more aggressive policy of direct and indirect attack on several U.S. allies (such as Saudi Arabia and the other oil producers in the Gulf).
-- According to Itamar Rabinovich in response to Barry Posen
2007-11-01 The Middle East is the strategic arena of the 21st century.
-- According to Josef Joffe in his response to Barry Posen












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