“If Europe cannot defeat Russia, how can we defeat China?” and other quotations

“The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.” Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby

“If Europe cannot defeat Russia, how can we defeat China?”  Kaja Kallas, the first female prime minister of Estonia until 2024 when she took charge of the European Union's Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.

I really wish the Ukraine War enthusiasts would pick between "Russia will easily march through Europe if American taxpayers don't finance the war forever" and "ACKSHUALLY Russia is losing" instead of flipping back and forth every day. Mollie@MZHemingway 

“Putin will invade Europe” is the new “Iraq has weapons of mass destruction”. Thomas Fazi

"If we have learned anything from the NATO experience...it is the rediscovery of an old truth: Dependency corrupts and absolute dependency corrupts absolutely. To the degree that Europe has been dependent upon the United States, the European will has been corrupted and European political vitality has diminished. A reconstructed NATO could reverse that process. But it would have to be an all-European NATO, with the United States an ally but not a member." Irving Kristol, "What's Wrong with NATO?", in the New York Times of Sept. 25, 1983.


Niall Ferguson, December 9 2018: