Jeremy Corbyn Quotes

The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.

NATO was built to counteract the Soviet Union in its day and time. At this point there is no threat coming from the Soviet Union, because there is no Soviet Union anymore. And where there was the Soviet Union once, there is now a number of countries, among them the new and democratic Russia.

The United States, obviously, has a great interest in helping to maintain peace and security in Europe, and we have a formal alliance, NATO, to do so.

The Cold War is Over

NATO is the most important military alliance in world history.

NATO was constructed on the - with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault. Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?

The only thing wrong with NATO is that we don't belong to it.

The cold war is over; Japan won!

If we look decades ago, we know that NATO allies contributed a lot of equipment close to the border of the Soviet Union.

Britain is relatively compact and much closer to the borders of the U.S.S.R. than anywhere in North America.

The E.U. cannot act as guardian of the post-Cold War status quo without risking a collapse of Europe's current institutional infrastructure.

Truman is now seen as a near-great president because he put in place the containment doctrine boosted by the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan and NATO, which historians now see as having been at the center of American success in the cold war.

Following the end of the Cold War, there was much discussion concerning the point of NATO. In the event, it was reinvented as a means of reducing Russia's reach on its western frontiers and seeking to isolate it. Its former East European client states were admitted to NATO, as were the Baltic states.

So seven new countries, three of them formerly part of the Soviet Union, and the others part of the Warsaw Pact, will become full members of NATO next year.

I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.

There's a tendency on the part of Americans, all of us, to say, 'Hey, the Cold War is over, the Soviet Union is gone, we don't have to worry about these guys again.' We always have to be worried about them, we always have to be concerned about them, and we have to be well-informed.

The Cold War is over. The kind of authority that the presidents asserted during the Cold War has now been diminished.

The only thing that kept the Cold War cold was the mutual deterrence afforded by 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.

Containment was merely appeasement on the installment plan.

A missile is a missile. It makes no great difference whether you are killed by a missile from the Soviet Union or Cuba.

Russia is now a lonely fraction of what the old Warsaw pact was. It not only has lost its old Eastern European allies; those allies are now arrayed on the other side, as members of NATO

You say that NATO is not directed against us, that it is simply a security structure that is adapting to new realities. Therefore, we propose to join NATO.

The Cold War didn't end. It was won.

Peace and security both in Europe and in the Pacific still depend on a balance of power.