Geopolitics Quotes

“It has to be admitted that starving nations never seem to be quite so starving that they cannot afford to have far more expensive armaments than anybody else.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“Most Americans are close to total ignorance about the world. They are ignorant. That is an unhealthy condition in a country in which foreign policy has to be endorsed by the people if it is to be pursued. And it makes it much more difficult for any president to pursue an intelligent policy that does justice to the complexity of the world.”
― Zbigniew Brzezinski

“[American exceptionalism] is a reaction to the inability of people to understand global complexity or important issues like American energy dependency. Therefore, they search for simplistic sources of comfort and clarity. And the people that they are now selecting to be, so to speak, the spokespersons of their anxieties are, in most cases, stunningly ignorant.”
― Zbigniew Brzezinski

“How the West reacts to China’s rise will be an epoch-defining driver of disruption.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“The rise of info-ruption is an arms race.”
― Roger Spitz, Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“For the first time we can perceive something of the real proportion of features and events on the stage of the whole world, and may seek a formula which shall express certain aspects, at any rate, of geographical causation in universal history.”
― Halford John Mackinder

“When [Ivan] Ilyin wrote that the art of politics was “identifying and neutralizing the enemy,” he did not mean that statesmen should ascertain which foreign power actually posed a threat. He meant that politics began with a leader’s decision about which foreign enmity will consolidate a dictatorship. Russia’s real geopolitical problem was China. But precisely because Chinese power was real and proximate, considering Russia’s actual geopolitics might lead to depressing conclusions.

The West was chosen as an enemy precisely because it represented no threat to Russia. Unlike China, the EU had no army and no long border with Russia. The United States did have an army, but had withdrawn the vast majority of its troops from the European continent: from about 300,000 in 1991 to about 60,000 in 2012. NATO still existed and had admitted former communist countries of eastern Europe. But President Barack Obama had cancelled an American plan to build a missile defense system in eastern Europe in 2009, and in 2010 Russia was allowing American planes to fly through Russian airspace to supply American forces in Afghanistan. No Russian leader feared a NATO invasion in 2011 or 2012, or even pretended to.”
― Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

“In Europe, a system of order had been founded on the careful sequestration of moral absolutes from political endeavors—if only because attempts to impose one faith or system of morality on the Continent’s diverse peoples had ended so disastrously. In America, the proselytizing spirit was infused with an ingrained distrust of established institutions and hierarchies. Thus the British philosopher and Member of Parliament Edmund Burke would recall to his colleagues that the colonists had exported “liberty according to English ideas” along with diverse dissenting religious sects constrained in Europe (“the protestantism of the protestant religion”) and “agreeing in nothing but in the communion of the spirit of liberty.” These forces, intermingling across an ocean, had produced a distinct national outlook: “In this character of the Americans, a love of freedom is the predominating feature which marks and distinguishes the whole.”
― Henry Kissinger, World Order

“War is the currency of political power.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“World is my brotherhood.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations

“Little Planet on The Prairie
(New Earth Anthem)

New Earth is an art of love,
not a stain of hateful ignorance.
New Earth is a land of promise,
not of greed and indifference.

New Earth is a blank canvas,
we gotta decide what we paint -
masterpiece of an inclusive dawn,
or a bloody reminder of apish days.

New Earth is a better Earth,
we no longer thirst after blood.
We toil together without divide,
to be a gentle beacon in the cosmos.

Hijab, habit, turban, all are equal,
It's bigotry that is unacceptable.
On our New Earth character is supreme,
primitive traditions are expendable.

Existence here is an art of love,
at our planet on the cosmic prairie.
New Earth is a celebration of life,
not a validation of ruinous rigidity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Democracy is people-approved dictatorship.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth

“Prioritizing military over education, we only build a world full of terrorists.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“Love of country is the root of all war.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Armistice Sonnet

Ceasefire is a diplomatic gimmick,
They cease only to hit back harder.
Demilitarization is what we need,
We got no use for one more ceasefire.

Ceasefire only postpones war,
disarmament instills peace.
Armistice empowers armament,
demilitarization plants peace.

Tyrants don't call truce to allow aid,
but only to rearm themselves,
so they can call in more ammunition,
from their apely imperialist friends.

One more ceasefire we could do without,
World is wailing for the final ceasefire.
Disown every statesman who prides military,
Builders of military are merchants of murder.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Peace, A Crime Against State
(The Sonnet)

There's no difference between
a soldier and a contract killer.
Hitmen are paid to kill individuals,
Soldiers are paid to kill in bulk.

Righteous soldiers don't exist,
they only exist in fairytale movies.
No academy trains youngsters for peace,
they manufacture state-abiding terrorists.

If any soldier ever wakes up to peace,
they're instantly discharged without honor.
Thinking soldiers are no use to state,
States only want brainless suicide bombers.

Enemy of war is enemy of the state,
Making of peace is crime against state.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Peace is a crime against state.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Beyond Borders and Dogma
(Sonnet 1590)

Monkeys obsess over chunks of land,
takes a human to home the world.
Leeches obsess over guns and badges,
takes a human to deck the halls.

Beyond borders and dogma,
beyond division and doctrine,
beyond malignant maleficence,
everyone is my kith and kin.

Any ape can boast about their culture,
I'll die roaring for every culture
on earth, except my own.
Monkeys obsess over chunks of land,
I stand guard till all are one.

Nationalists mark borders by raising guns,
like dogs mark their territory by raising legs.
Monkeys seek refuge in archaic sovereignty,
Human am I, my refuge is the human race.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Every animal knows to love self,
Takes a human to love beyond.
Every baboon fears barbwire,
Takes a human to love beyond.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“Morality and Power exist on parallel planes, occasionally intersecting but never really converging. They never have and never will.

Those who wield power seldom adhere to moral principles and those who uphold morality rarely possess power.”
― Mamur Mustapha

“You see fringe politics is like raping little girls because usually fringe politics isnt well liked and its insane and immoral or just plain retarded but also it feels so good just like raping little girls.”
― Bishop Bishop

“Applied to foreign politics, pacifism either stops being pacifist or becomes appeasement.”
― George Orwell, Reflections on Gandhi

“…and since there were no visible boundaries between regions or nations, lowell reasoned that the planet had probably reached a kind of geopolitical end state where a group of benevolent oligarchs had come to direct the social order.”
― Sarah Stewart Johnson, The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World

“The Planet Is Like the Titanic-And We’re Steering Straight Into the Iceberg.”
― Mohamed Dosou

“Democracy on Drugs, Sonnet (Operation Opium)

Revolution a day keeps corruption away,
freethinking days prevent genocidal nights.
Citizens without brain leads to democracy on drugs,
paranoia is lifeblood for power-hungry parasites.

Parasites thrive on gaslighting neighbors,
peaceful coexistence is a threat to political power.
Politicians remain safe through war and drought,
it's the people who pay with blood, money and tears.

Parasites don't have nationality,
parasites don't have religion,
parasites only have a bottomless hunger
to keep the throne by calculated cleansing.

Nationalism has nothing to do with culture,
fundamentalism has nothing to do with religion.
Win a war, lose a war, politicians lose nothing,
living off domesticated sheep comatosed by opium.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“I am not saying that the United States won the Cold War because of mass murder. The Cold War ended mostly because of the internal contradictions of Soviet Communism, and the fact that its leaders in Russia accidentally destroyed their own state. I do want to claim that this loose network of extermination programs, organized and justified by anticommunist principles, was such an important part of the US victory that the violence profoundly shaped the world we live in today.”
― Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

“In a civilized world citizen is the leader, obsolete is the profession of world leaders.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“In the opera of war, peace is fugitive.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Crisis demands new alliances. Find out how nations and businesses are forging powerful new partnerships.”
― Sajjad Noor, The Tariff Paradox: From Crisis to Catalyst: How a Broken Global Economy Could Lead to a Better Future

“Earth is a planet of paradoxes, in the west the most criminal institution is considered most holy, in the east the most polluted river is considered most sacred - at the same time, some of the poorest nations are most humane, while the superpowers reek of prejudice and persecution.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat