Paul Keating Quotes
Existing great powers are always nervous when there is a new emerging power
Paul Keating, Australian Prime Minister (Labor), Interview, PBS The Charlie Rose Show, December 4, 2010
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3rd Earl Russell of Kingston. He was right on the 1st, and time will tell about the 2nd. But at the time he made this prediction, America was not a superpower, and was considered behind, England and France and just passing Argentina. At the time, America was reeling from the 1929 stock market crash and the Great Depression. The development of the United State through the FDR era including WWII was amazing. And by 1948 America was not only number 1, but the only Superpower at the time.
After the economic & power collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States was the only remaining superpower. Givern Russia's diminshed capability and many Americans still carrying resentments about the Cold War, America's foreign policy and diplomacy did not treat Russia as if they were a very important power in the world. Puten greatly resented the fact that Russia was no longer considered or treated like a world power, Russia had a nuclear arsenal and a total delivery system what was in the same destructive potential class as the United States. There were many Russiabs who had similar resentments and Putin sert out to adopt policieis and practices that would force the United States and the other nations to consider them with more dignity, respect and consdideration. This was a typical statement of the period when he was "stoking the fires of Russian resentment.
At the end of WWII there was much tension between Russia and the Anglo-American alliance. This plan was developed but never implemented. See {613195} for Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s description of the invasion idea.
Many of his colleagues were concerned that there were relative power changes in the world and argued that no change should be tolerated by England. However, change is always in process although often it is not noticed until it has advanced and changed the balance of power. The rise of China, India and Brazil in the beginning of the 21st century are an example.
This was a warning to Saudi Arabia that the United States might seize the oil fields. At the time we were not getting enough oil for domestic needs and the military in Europe and in Vietnam. The King arranged to secretly supply oil to the United States while maintaining to the other Arab countries that it was maintaining the boycott of the West.
Paul John Keating is an Australian politician who served as the 24th Prime Minister of Australia and the Leader of the Labor Party from 1991 to 1996. He previously served as Treasurer of Australia in the Hawke Government from 1983 to 1991 and as Deputy Prime Minister of Australia and Deputy Leader of the Labor Party from 1990 to 1991.
