“Russia, like all other countries not named China, faces an uphill battle to establish the degree of content dominance that an autocrat might want.”
― Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism
― Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism
“I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.”
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“Where there is power, there is resistance.”
― The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
― The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
“...if the United States never intended to help, it shouldn’t have built up the expectation. The false promise of help was cruel and inexcusable and it would only get worse over time. If a man is drowning and a boat drives past in the distance, the man accepts his death and goes down quietly. If a man is drowning and a boat pulls up beside him, dangles a life jacket, tells the world he wants to help, but then doesn’t throw the life jacket, the drowning man dies crying and his family might take a blood oath to take revenge on the boat’s crew. This type of anger was already starting to build in Syria and al-Qaeda would capitalize on it.”
― And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East
― And Then All Hell Broke Loose: Two Decades in the Middle East
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