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I was confident about America and the idea that in America people can become American without masking their ethnic identity.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Like so many empires before it, the Soviet Union eventually imploded and fragmented, falling victim not so much to a direct military defeat as to disintegration accelerated by economic and social strains.
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Empire Fall Military
I happen to think that as the Ukraine moves to the West, towards the E.U., eventually towards NATO, it will pave the way also for Russia moving towards the West. Because it will become a logical extension of the same process, and it will eliminate any imperial ambitions.
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Ambition Moving Thinking
People, governments and economies of all nations must serve the needs of multinational banks and corporations.
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Government Need People
Henceforth, the United States may have to determine how to cope with regional coalitions that seek to push America out of Eurasia, thereby threatening America’s status as a global power.
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Country May People
Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let’s cooperate.
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Causes Extremes Imbalance
In the longer run, I happen to think that Russia really has no choice but to become gradually more associated with the Euro-Atlantic community. Because if it isn’t, then it’s going to find itself essentially facing China all by itself, facing the Euro-Atlantic community all by itself.
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Country People Running Thinking
The scope of America’s global hegemony is admittedly great, but its depth is shallow, limited by both domestic and external restraints.
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Country Depth Hegemony People
Arab nationalism, which tended to be until relatively recent somewhat secular in motivation, has now become increasingly religious and fundamentalist. And that makes it more pervasive, more difficult to deal with.
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Difficult Motivation Religious
Global stability – economic as well as political – is at risk.
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Economic Political Risk
In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.
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Country Failure Option People Succeed
I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?
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Anxiety Important Thinking
For people of different faiths to coexist, it’s going to take maturity, wisdom, and patience. All of which come, eventually, with tolerance. And it’s a process of time.
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Maturity People Tolerance
Marxism represents a further vital and creative stage in the maturing of man’s universal vision… The nation-state is gradually yielding its sovereignty… More intensive efforts to shape a new world monetary structure will have to be undertaken.
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Creative Effort Men
Ukraine, a new and important space on the Eurasian chessboard, is a geopolitical pivot because its very existence as an independent country helps to transform Russia. Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be a Eurasian empire.
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Country Independent People Time
The United States is prepared really to be engaged in the quest to get people in the world the dignities that they seek today, the social justice that they feel they’re deprived of, and the common solution to global problems.
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Justice People World
Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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Follower Look Religion

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