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“Geopolitical and demographic forces are so rooted in the unchangeable that political action often generates little but noise.”
― The Accidental Superpower: Ten Years On
― The Accidental Superpower: Ten Years On
“If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.”
― Essays on Economics and Economists
― Essays on Economics and Economists
“American involvement in the Persian Gulf has not been in order to secure energy supplies for the United States, but instead to supply energy for its energy-starved Bretton Woods partners in Europe and Asia. Put more directly, the Americans do not protect the Persian Gulf kingdoms and emirates so that the Americans can use Middle Eastern oil, but so that their Bretton Woods partners in Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Thailand, India, and Pakistan can.”
― The Accidental Superpower: Ten Years On
― The Accidental Superpower: Ten Years On
“And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you.”
― The Chaos of Stars
― The Chaos of Stars
“There are good solid reasons as to why nearly every major expansionary power of the past has been based in a temperate climate zone, and why all those that have lasted have been riverine-based.”
― The Accidental Superpower: Ten Years On
― The Accidental Superpower: Ten Years On
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