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

“We know people and their nature… pushed and pushed and pushed… until finally… push back… it will happen… but until then, we milk the cow as long as we can… you see we want to play both sides. Have the government develop partners in Russia, China, Africa, while entertaining the Americans before their empire crumbles and they run to the Arabs… even in the idealism of a multi-polar world, there is still plenty of money to be made along the way… is there not?”
― Rohith S. Katbamna, Gulab

“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 The United States did have an army, but had withdrawn the vast majority of its troops from the European continent: from about 300,000 in 1991 to about 60,000 in 2012.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

“Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.”
― Aur Esenbel, The Daily Squib: Anthology from 2007 to 2022

“Whether someone is a terrorist or not depends on how much political power they hold. Yesterday talibans had no power, so ape governments everywhere denounced them as a terrorist organization, today they are in power, so naturally the same ape governments are wining and dining with the taliban apes.

Today zionists are in power, so palestinians are terrorists, tomorrow when Palestine becomes free and sovereign, and israel turns into a reservation for zionist apes, while the human jews flee to palestine for freedom, Palestinians will be celebrated as righteous.

Terrorism, war crime, these are not ethical classification, these are political classification, and when the power flips, so does the classification.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Terrorism, war crime, these are not ethical classification, these are political classification, and when the power flips, so does the classification.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Most social issues are rooted in religion, most religious issues are rooted in politics, most political issues are vestiges of colonialism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Be The Unpatriot (Naskaristana 2803)

One soldier's medal is another soldier's widow,
one soldier's glory is another soldier's orphan.
One nation's victory is another nation's mourning,
one family's felicitation is another family's trauma.

Soldiers pay the price, civilians pay the price, but
one particular creature always comes out with a profit,
it's the politicians - there's a fortune in warmongering,
if they can just sell fear in the name of patriotic duty.

So here I am, the idiot earthling,
begging you on my knees - grow up,
be human enough to be the unpatriot,
be a stain upon the nation's flag.

If your corpse can be covered with just one flag,
it's a sacrifice wasted in political theatre -
when nations join hands to honor your fall,
know that you've finally ascended human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“One soldier's medal is another soldier's widow, one soldier's glory is another soldier's orphan.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“There's a fortune in warmongering, if they can just sell fear in the name of patriotic duty.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Autopsy of The West (Naskaristana 2754-2757)

Food just tastes better when you eat with hands, sitting on the floor, together with family - which goes against the artificial, life-wrecking lifestyle invented by the west -

in western narrative, isolation is liberation, the elderly is inconvenient, apathy is aesthetic - invasion is ambition, exploitation is exploration, indifference is etiquette, appropriation is innovation -

this is the autopsy of the west, not biopsy, because we do biopsy of the living, not the dead. We cannot establish proper, healthy human integration, without first decolonizing the world, which is why it is imperative, that the world outgrows the west, no matter the country -

in short, whether you're born in a first world civilization of the global south or a third world country of the north, like England or America, you must outgrow the west, if you want to be civilized, if you want to be human.

The American must stop being american, you must outgrow everything that the pilgrims held near and dear, because the pilgrims were among apekind's most grotesque offenders, second only to their own forefathers, the british empire and other euro imperials.

You cannot end dehumanization while abiding by the narrative established by the dehumanizers, you cannot end a pandemic while playing by the rules of the virus - you cannot heal a war-inflicted planet while studying from the rulebook of colonialism, that planted the germs of most of those wars in the first place - colonial history is not heritage, it's a crimescene.

Civilization is care over conquest, civilization is integration over isolation, civilization is belonging - to burn the bridges with dehumanizers is the first requirement of civilization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“You cannot end dehumanization while abiding by the narrative established by the dehumanizers, you cannot end a pandemic while playing by the rules of the virus - you cannot heal a war-inflicted planet while studying from the rulebook of colonialism, that planted the germs of most of those wars in the first place.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“You cannot heal a war-inflicted planet while studying from the rulebook of colonialism, that planted the germs of most of those wars in the first place.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“If your corpse can be covered with just one flag, it's a sacrifice wasted in political theatre - when nations join hands to honor your fall, know that you've finally ascended human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“When resources decide survival, power stops asking and starts taking.”
― Angelika Regossi, Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the dissolved Communist Empire

“If your history book, pol-sci book, criminology book, doesn't register the US government as the planet's number one terrorist organization, followed by the british empire, you are studying fake history, fake sociology, fake criminology.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“If you want to establish plurality on planet earth, you must first dismantle the historic desecrator of plurality, which is eurocentrism.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Till you outgrow white narrative, you'll never learn the human story.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot

“Stand and burn the colonial syllabus.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Rise, O Peoples of Earth –
Rise till the looters fall.
Roar like Sonnets of Naskar –
Fire the fascists, free the world!”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Eurocentrism - The First Global Catastrophe (Sonnet 2626)

Climate change is nothing,
the first humanly caused
global catastrophe was eurocentrism -

before colonials, science was rooted in society, and
philosophy was rooted in community, not snobbery,
medicine was centered on people, not profit,
religion was lived experience, not salesmanship -

farmland was family, not property,
innovation empowered life, not luxury -

psychology prioritized understanding
and healing, not analysis and isolation,
poetry was the everyday way of life,
not aristocratic escapism.

Sure, there was superstition back then as well,
but no superstition of the pre-colonial world
comes close in atrocity to the fancy superstitions
of the imperials marketed as progress.

Eurocentrism is the biggest impediment to education -
stand and burn the colonial syllabus, that's enlightenment!”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Eurocentrism is the biggest impediment to education.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Before colonials, science was rooted in society, and
philosophy was rooted in community, not snobbery,
medicine was centered on people, not profit,
religion was lived experience, not salesmanship. Sure, there was superstition back then as well, but no superstition of the pre-colonial world comes close in atrocity to the fancy superstitions of the imperials marketed as progress. Eurocentrism is the biggest impediment to education - stand and burn the colonial syllabus, that's enlightenment!”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Naskarnomics (Sonnet 2641)

Ethics 101: do not take ethics lessons from America.
Theology 101: do not take divinity lessons from the Vatican.
Geopolitics 101: don't take democracy lessons from the West.
Economics 101: don't take economy lessons from rich white men.

Don't take innovation lessons from AGI companies.
Don't take activism lessons from filmstars.
Don't take yoga lessons from chakra salesmen.
Do not take medical advise from influencers.

Don't take feminism lessons from rich white women.
Don't take masculinity lessons from chauvinist pigs.
Don't take culture lessons from nationalists.
Don't take religion lessons from fundamentalists.

Don't take justice lessons from the bent.
Don't ask life directions from the dead.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Ethics 101: do not take ethics lessons from America. Theology 101: do not take divinity lessons from the Vatican. Geopolitics 101: don't take democracy lessons from the West. Economics 101: don't take economy lessons from rich white men.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Geopolitics 101: don't take democracy lessons from the West.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Ethics 101: do not take ethics lessons from America.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock