Hillary Clinton Quotes
For more than a half a century, we know that we prospered because of a bipartisan consensus on defense and foreign policy. We must do more than return to that sensible, cooperative approach.
Clinton, Hillary Rodham. Hard Choices. Simon & Schuster, 2014, p. 25.
His definition of Russian territory included any area that the Czars claimed which included Poland, the Baltic States, the Ukraine, the Caucuses, but at the time of the speech, Russia was fighting to keep its existing territory.
Spinoza was one of the most feared intellectuals in human history—feared, that is, by the established power structures. Spinoza’s ideas were considered so radical and dangerous that he was the only man in history who was excommunicated by the Catholics, the Jews and the Muslims.
This classic, but feeble, claim that Turkey was going to be neutral in WWI. He the ambassador admitted that Turkey had mobilized all its male population, and that a German General on active duty was in command of the Turkish army for “training”, yet they intended to be neutral. Shortly thereafter Turkey and Germany announced an axis alliance which was a great foreign policy blunder for Turkey. Then they (with Germany) lost the war, the Ottoman Empire was broken up in the peace treaty and Turkey went from a huge empire to just a country. Incredibly, later in WWII Turkey made the same blunder and allied and fought with Hitler and Germany again.
Russia is not the only nation who believed this. There were and are some politicians and military officers in almost every country who believe this. However, for the last few centuries, this has rarely been the view held by the majority of the politicians and military in most nations. And even fewer where the leadership accepted this posiitin. Russia, was one of those counties that did hold this few and kade it policy was in the 2nd decade of 2016,
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is an American politician, diplomat, lawyer, writer, and public speaker who served as the 67th United States secretary of state from 2009 to 2013, as a United States senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, and as First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Clinton became the first woman to be nominated for president of the United States by a major political party when she won the Democratic Party nomination in 2016. She was the first woman to win the popular vote in an American presidential election; however, she failed to win the Electoral College.
