Meles Zenawi Quotes

Russia is a direct threat to our NATO allies in the Baltics and in Poland as well as a threat to peace and stability in the entire western world.

I don't think Russia could start a war by attacking any of the NATO member states.

Years ago, I predicted that Iran would take over Iraq. Iran and Iraq used to fight back and forth.

European history has shown only too clearly the weakness of multilateral defensive alliances between complete sovereign nations as a means of opposing desperate and determined bids for domination of the European scene

These four mongrels are supposed to be our defense against Communism and the extremes of Arab Nationalism in the Middle East.

On the global scale, if there's a shaky Middle East, there's a shaky world.

If America would withdraw from South Korea, there could be a power struggle between such as China and Japan.

Many defense experts have predicted that we face no greater threat from a single country than from Iran.

Iran is a major threat to the well-being of Europe and America just as much as it is for the state of Israel.

The unthinkable occurred: two communist countries went to war with each other.

Iran is part of the problem, not the solution. And the Russian government is ignoring reality.

We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.

I don't think that anyone seriously fears that the world can be blown to pieces all together. But what one can fear and rightly so are regional things, like in the Middle East, India, Pakistan, the Korean Peninsula, borders in Africa, etc.

The regional security in the Middle East cannot be further compromised by an Iranian loose cannon.

Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.

(When British troops were still garrisoned in Egypt, Nasser requested arms from the United States.) You can't give them (the Egyptians) arms with which to kill British soldiers who fought shoulder to shoulder with you in the war (World War II.)

It has become increasingly clear that Pakistan’s chief aim in aligning with the West was to gain support against India

Our inaction created the opportunity for the Russians to reenter the Middle East in a powerful way for the first time since 1973.

The potential for regional conflict in the absence of an internationally active America is real.

Saudi Arabia needs friends. We are in a war in Yemen, in a confrontation with Iran, so we need friends like Canada, Europe.

Russia isn't likely to have any more military success in Syria and Iraq than has the United States.

On Putin's order, Russian security services try to destabilize NATO allies the U.S. has sworn to defend.

We're in a global war, facing an enemy alliance that runs from Pyongyang, North Korea, to Havana, Cuba, and Caracas, Venezuela.

Iran has been one of America's greatest enemies and I'm proud that President Trump is protecting our country and our allies.

And most worryingly, it wouldn't surprise me if Putin ends up starting a major military conflict with the West at some point in the future to save his own skin as head of state in Russia.