Winston Churchill Quotes
The belief that security can be obtained by throwing a small state to the wolves is a fatal delusion.
Churchill, Winston. Press statement on the Munich Agreement, 21 September 1938. Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897-1963, edited by Robert Rhodes James, vol. VI, Chelsea House Publishers, 1974.
Compare to a related sentiment by a former National Security Advisor, Colin Powell.
He was referring to the United States fighting against Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan to keep Al Qaeda from attacking the United States easily.
The candidates had remarkably little experience in foreign affairs with the exception of Jon Huntsman and Newt Gingrich who in the extreme right wing ideology driving the Republican primary voters at the time had little chance of winning as they were too far to the left for the Republicans of the time.
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,
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, DL, FRS, RA was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. Apart from two years between 1922 and 1924, Churchill was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1900 to 1964 and represented a total of five constituencies. Ideologically an economic liberal and imperialist, he was for most of his career a member of the Conservative Party, as leader from 1940 to 1955. He was a member of the Liberal Party from 1904 to 1924. Churchill was also well known for his military career and as a historian, painter and writer, and among his many awards was the Nobel Prize in Literature.
