Monday, 20 January 2025

Political quotations

"France’s ex-Commissioner Thierry Breton thinks the EU should override the German elections if the AfD does too well, citing the recent Supreme Court putsch in Romania as a good precedent." Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Daily Telegraph, 17 January 2025

"After each wave of NATO expansion, for example, Russia became more rather than less threatening. If the purpose of NATO expansion was to make Europe more secure, the contrast between the security environment of 1992 and that of 2025 delivers a damning verdict — all the more so when contrasted with the success a more limited NATO enjoyed in checking the Soviet Union until its demise." Daniel McCarthy"It's over: Biden is last gasp of failed post-Cold War internationalism", January 17, 2025

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Joseph Fasano

"Your gift is not a gift, it's a loan, a loan to do something extraordinary; it's the paying back of that loan, squaring up with yourself and the universe, that's the gift." Dylan O'Sullivan