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01 / belief
“I think he eventually succeeded, but it took a considerable amount of time, and I think he understood that he was not playing a particularly strong hand.”
02 / belief
“I mean, I hadn’t thought about it until you said it, but yeah, I think that that is possible.”
03 / belief
“Oh, yeah. I think geography’s very important. Big bodies of water really matter.”
04 / belief
“My view is there is no evidence, let me emphasize, zero evidence, to support that argument.”
05 / belief
“I agree 100% with that, right. It’s very important if you’re a first class strategist to be able to do that, but at the same time, there is this competition for power taking place, and what you want to do is maximize how much power you have relative to the other side, and the other side wants to maximize how much power it has relative to you.”
06 / belief
“I think in the end the Soviets would’ve won no matter what, but I’m not a hundred percent sure of that.”
07 / belief
“At this point in time, I think peace basically means a Greater Israel controlled by Palestine or Palestinians.”
08 / belief
“I believe there would be a great deal of intense security competition between those two superpowers.”
09 / belief
“I think going on a rampage and killing huge numbers as civilians, it’s obviously morally wrong, but it’s also just not in their strategic interest because it’s not going to buy them anything.”
10 / belief
“I think that one of the reasons that he was so successful at winning over the German people once he came to power was because there was a great deal of resentment in the German body politic.”
11 / belief
“Not for one second, but I’m just saying… And by the way, just to go to the Israelis and what they’re doing in Gaza, as I said to you before, I do believe that is a massacre and I believe that’s to be condemned, the killing of civilians.”
12 / belief
“I believe, by the way, just going back to our discussion of NATO expansion, I think our inability to understand that NATO expansion was anathema to the Soviet, to the Russians, was due in large part to the fact that we just during the unipolar moment, didn’t think of international politics from a realist perspective and didn’t respect anyone who thought about international politics from a realist perspective.”
13 / belief
“I think the best you can hope for at this point is, at some point the shooting stops, you have a ceasefire, and then you have a frozen conflict.”
14 / belief
“You want to do something where you get up out of bed in the morning with a bounce in your step.” So I think that if your mother and father want you to be a lawyer and they’re pushing you to be a lawyer and you don’t want to be a lawyer, you want to be a policeman, be a policeman.”
15 / belief
“You have to get the Americans out. And then, I think if you have Zelensky and Putin talking, you have a sliver of a chance there.”
16 / belief
“I think he would level with you, and all you would’ve to do is just figure out what all the right questions are.”
17 / belief
“I would argue that the British Empire was an albatross around Britain’s neck in most of the 20th Century.”
18 / belief
“I think given the fact that this was in the planning stages for probably about two years, and the Abraham Accords with regard to Saudi Arabia are relatively new phenomenon, I don’t think that’s the main driving force here.”
19 / belief
“I think the tricky question there that you would have to answer is what about EU expansion? And I think EU expansion is probably a no-no for the Russians because most people don’t recognize this, but there is a military dimension built into EU expansion.”
20 / belief
“I think what you want to do is make it clear to the Chinese either that there will be no winner… In other words, you don’t have to win, but you want to make sure they don’t win.”
21 / belief
“I think the Wehrmacht, by the summer of 1941, was a finely tuned instrument for war, and the Red Army was in quite terrible shape.”
22 / belief
“I think what you’re missing here, just in the Israeli case, is that the Israeli government is not interested in two-state solution.”
23 / belief
“I mean, you go around East Asia today and the hatred of Japan in a place like China, the hatred of Japan in a place like Korea, just not to be underestimated. But I think a lot of it just has to do with the fact that you’re dealing with social groups that have crashed into each other at one point or another.”