Alicia

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“The great-power veto, which paralyzed the security arrangements of the Council, had not been unrealistic. It was merely a sublimation of the veto power actually held by powerful countries in the field of action, in the same way that ballots are not sacred, but only a sublimation of clubs or bullets, in the domestic arena.”
― T.R. Fehrenbach, This kind of peace

tags: force, power, substitute, un

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“Vyshinsky showed the new Soviet ploy: to obscure Russian expansion and Russian tyranny by direct and repeated reminders of former Western imperialism and the Pax Britannica, of which the West had grown ashamed.”
― T.R. Fehrenbach, This kind of peace

tags: hearts-and-minds, politics, shame, tactics, united-nations

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“With control of Germany, Russia could hope to rival all the island powers combined. Without Germany, the USSR might hold its own. But with a restored Germany in the camp of the island powers, the USSR was eternally overmatched.”
― T.R. Fehrenbach

tags: germany, post-wwii, russia

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“The USSR felt safe only on a continent it controlled. The movement of Russian power or ideology westward from the Elbe or Danube could only bring the USSR into violent confrontation with the North Atlantic civilization. And the United States had twice taken to crusade to prevent the consolidation of Western Europe under single-power hegemony.”
― T.R. Fehrenbach, This kind of peace

tags: crusade, hegemony, nato, russia, united-nations

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“Modern man, especially modern urban intellectual man, without a sense of history or blood soil - the words Hitler's distortion made anathema - understood poorly the seemingly inexorable cycles of human conduct. Men such as Churchill, nonintellectual but brilliant, were not cleverer than the best minds of the West. But they tended to see what was, and not what should be.”
― T.R. Fehrenbach, This kind of peace

tags: churchill, history, reality, warning

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