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The Political Awakening That Is Happening Worldwide Is A Major Challenge For America, Because It Means That The World Is Much More Restless. It's Stirring. It Has Aspirations Which Are Not Easily Satisfied. And If America Is To Lead, It Has To Relate Itself Somehow To These New, Lively, Intense Political Aspirations, Which Make Our Age So Different From Even The Recent Past.

A Great Deal Of World Politics Is A Fundamental Struggle, But It Is Also A Struggle That Has To Be Waged Intelligently.

The Eastern Europeans Invested Too Many Of Their Hopes In The Notion That Somehow Or Other The Missile Shield, Even If Directed At Iran, Would Reinforce Their Security Links With The U.s. Vis-à-vis Russia.

I Think If Nato Haven't Expanded, We Would Have A No-man's Zone Between The E.u. And Nato And Russia, And That Would Be Very Dangerous.

Russia Can Be Either An Empire Or A Democracy, But It Cannot Be Both. . . . Without Ukraine, Russia Ceases To Be An Empire, But With Ukraine Suborned And Then Subordinated, Russia Automatically Becomes An Empire.