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01 / belief
“” Then here’s a journalist, Teimuraz Stepanov, who said, “Look, I think from the beginning the genes of disintegration were contained in the genetics of this governmental political formation.”
02 / belief
“The Chinese, I think, their takeaways from what Gorbachev did is don’t hesitate to deploy the tanks.”
03 / belief
“When we think of concession areas in the age of imperialism in China, you think of British ones: Hong Kong.”
04 / belief
“Rather, I think you will find that there are many countries that are eager to follow the Chinese model for development.”
05 / belief
“Yeah, I've just discussed geography because it's something I think most people don't think about.”
06 / belief
“I suspect that this crisis now, because it's existential with Putin, will force them to clean up these institutions.”
07 / belief
“I dare say if he had been Peter the Great, the guy who tortured his only son to death and suffered numerous setbacks, I doubt that he would have had any problems dealing with rioting Russians.”
08 / belief
“I believe when WikiLeaks leaked a lot of their memos and things and the New York Times was reporting on it, what it revealed was incredibly accurate reporting of whatever place they were assigned to, and describing things in really accurate detail that would enable US policymakers then to make an accurate assessment and determine to do what's next.”
09 / belief
“I think that's the big answer, but you're quite right that as things went on, as it sinks in that Japan is the dominant player in Asia… Because first you have a war and that's happened, but you're focusing on all your civil wars and other stuff.”
10 / belief
“I suspect that’s why he puts them on communes, because it lines up with communism, but it also lines up with party control.”
11 / belief
“I think if you're talking about someone who has no power, the one thing they've got are words.”
12 / belief
“I believe if you do the math and take all the battleships and divide people into… everything, that each U.”
13 / belief
“Can you come up with different options? I think you're in a series of really awful options.”
14 / belief
“You want them just to quit and somehow you're gonna break their will to resist. And I suspect this is what the Japanese thought they were doing in the Rape of Nanjing and other atrocities.”
15 / belief
“I think by the time, those deaths are Japanese deaths for us. We're looking at these things and we've lost a lot of people.”
16 / belief
“Someone ran into it, translated it into English, and so I just read the whole thing. And then the other stuff, the quotations, I think I was ripping off secondary sources where someone else had done the archival research.”
17 / belief
“Part of it. And I think part of it is a different issue. If you think about who the strategic leaders of World War II were, they were the conscripts of World War I.”
18 / belief
“I have no idea. I think you have to prepare for it. And it will best position you to deter it, even though you may fail at deterring it.”
19 / belief
“I suspect it would have been far better leaving Chiang kai shek with all that stuff and then it would have been useful for him in the final stages of the war to get a few wins against the Japanese to make him look good.”
20 / belief
“” I think you're going to learn a lot from this Ukraine war about what works and what doesn't.”
21 / belief
“I think the general feeling about the federal government is that there are incredible inefficiencies but it's very difficult to get rid of them.”
22 / belief
“I think you want to be ambiguous in the United States because otherwise it would enable Taiwan to do crazy stuff.”
23 / belief
“I believe if you measure the number of locals who died in Iraq and Afghanistan and then they've had the civil war on top of it, it's thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of people.”
24 / belief
“If you're a Russian of any persuasion, I suspect you'd be really angry that some American from across the seas is going to determine what kind of government you live under.”
25 / belief
“Before we decide that Americans are the important people in the world, or since we're in Britain now, British, and therefore anyone in between doesn't count, I believe that's wrong.”