Why Did The Germans And Japanese Keep

All Empires Have Depended On Local Legitimacy And Local Collaboration; They Are Not Based Primarily On Coercion. An Imperial Rule That Relies Wholly On Coercion Can't Endure. It's Too Expensive.

In Stalin's Russia Racial Persecution Was Often Disguised As Class Warfare. More Than 1.5 Million Members Of Ethnic Minorities Died As A Result Of Forced Resettlement.

No Civilization, No Matter How Mighty It May Appear To Itself, Is Indestructible.

It's All Very Well For Us To Sit Here In The West With Our High Incomes And Cushy Lives, And Say It's Immoral To Violate The Sovereignty Of Another State. But If The Effect Of That Is To Bring People In That Country Economic And Political Freedom, To Raise Their Standard Of Living, To Increase Their Life Expectancy, Then Don't Rule It Out.

It’s Our Generation That Is Witnessing The End Of Western Predominance. The Average American Used To Be More Than 20 Times Richer Than The Average Chinese. Now It’s Just Five Times, And Soon It Will Be 2.5 Times.