Milos Zeman Quotes

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

What could become a danger to world peace is Iran's nuclear program and the country's open threat to annihilate Israel.

As I've said many times and publicly, a war between China and Taiwan that involves the United States is a lose-lose-lose.

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

Many agree that the worst thing that could ever happen is if Russia and China get closer.

We ought to nuke North Korea right about now just to give the world a warning.

… the first armed aggression which the world has seen since the end of the war.

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.

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.

Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be few people who have not felt a twinge of nostalgia for the cold war.

If all Europe lies flat while the Russian mob tramps over it, we will then be faced with a war under difficult circumstances, and with a very good chance of losing it.

Governments go to war directly or by proxy without declaring war. Force, or threat of force, are constantly used to dominate other countries.

During the Cold War, America took sides not only in disputes between Arab countries, but also in debates within them.

We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.

Nuclear deterrence doesn't work outside of the Russian - U.S. context; Saddam Hussein showed that.

North Korea has taught a great lesson to all the countries in the world, especially the rogue countries of dictatorships or whatever: if you don't want to be invaded by America, get some nuclear weapons.

The Cold War went on for so long that it bred a kind of worldwide military establishment. Even when budgets went down in the early and mid-nineties, it didn't really affect it.

A war in the Taiwan Strait would destroy China's international relations overnight. It would destroy Chinese - Japanese relations, not to mention Chinese - American relations.

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.

You know, in the WikiLeaks cables, the Chinese discovered that Kevin Rudd was urging the Americans to keep the military option open against them. This is hardly a friendly gesture.

The United States has dealt with the Middle East and surrounding regions for many decades in the context of the Cold War.

The standards of the international community manifest firmness. Iran has no need for long-range missiles or to collaborate with terrorist organizations all over the world.

Eritrea is hellbent on destabilising Ethiopia. It does not care who it sleeps with.

If Iran and North Korea, by some horrible, devilish, nightmarish scenario, got together and went to war at the same time, one against Saudi Arabia and one against South Korea, I don't know what we would do about that. I don't know that we could stop them short of using nuclear weapons.

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