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He says that the era of European and then American dominance of the world, which began in 1492, is now over.
He also said:
We don't know whether this war will end.
How long will the American public be willing to arm Israel for wars that are either genocidal or utterly illegal, purposeless, and which draw the United States into them? I don't know.
I think the Greeks are responsible for many good things but one of the things they did was decide that there was an Asia across the Bosphorus. You know people who lived in Eurasia didn't know that they were Asian. They thought they were Turks or they thought they were Mongols or they were Chinese or they were Indians or something like that or Russians perhaps but no they're Asians. So what is happening is that European separation from the rest of Eurasia I think is in fact as you suggest becoming untenable in the new era. If you look at European history the greatest mistake - well let's go back to 1815 the Congress of Vienna which brought an end to the the Napoleonic war once and for all. That Congress did something very wise. They reached out to the enemy, France, revolutionary France and they reintegrated it into the councils of Europe so that Europe became governed by a group of countries that practiced balance of power that kept the peace for a century until 1914. In 1919 the Treaty of Versailles excluded two of Europe's great powers from any role in governing Europe: Germany which was punished for its war and the Soviet Union the successor state to Russia which was probably happy to be excluded but nonetheless was. Then the consequence of that were World War II and the consequence of World War II was the cold war. All of this stems from the exclusion of Russia, a European great power from any role in determining European affairs. This is not tenable.
We don't know whether this war will end.
How long will the American public be willing to arm Israel for wars that are either genocidal or utterly illegal, purposeless, and which draw the United States into them? I don't know.
I think the Greeks are responsible for many good things but one of the things they did was decide that there was an Asia across the Bosphorus. You know people who lived in Eurasia didn't know that they were Asian. They thought they were Turks or they thought they were Mongols or they were Chinese or they were Indians or something like that or Russians perhaps but no they're Asians. So what is happening is that European separation from the rest of Eurasia I think is in fact as you suggest becoming untenable in the new era. If you look at European history the greatest mistake - well let's go back to 1815 the Congress of Vienna which brought an end to the the Napoleonic war once and for all. That Congress did something very wise. They reached out to the enemy, France, revolutionary France and they reintegrated it into the councils of Europe so that Europe became governed by a group of countries that practiced balance of power that kept the peace for a century until 1914. In 1919 the Treaty of Versailles excluded two of Europe's great powers from any role in governing Europe: Germany which was punished for its war and the Soviet Union the successor state to Russia which was probably happy to be excluded but nonetheless was. Then the consequence of that were World War II and the consequence of World War II was the cold war. All of this stems from the exclusion of Russia, a European great power from any role in determining European affairs. This is not tenable.
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