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“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. Russia without Ukraine can still strive for imperial status, but it would then become a predominantly Asian imperial state, more likely to be drawn into debilitating conflicts with aroused Central Asians, who would then be resentful of the loss of their recent independence and would be supported by their fellow Islamic states to the south.”
― Zbigniew Brzeziński, The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives

“If you want to destroy any nation without war, make adultery or nudity common in the young generation.”
― Saladin

“A German-Russian partnership is a key element in any serious pan-European integration process. It is my ardent wish that Russia and Germany may manage to preserve all the positive achievements of the late 1980s and early 1990s in today's difficult times.”
― Mikhail Gorbachev, Memoirs

“Never confuse education with intelligence, you can have a PhD and still be an idiot.”
― Richard P. Feynman