Anne Applebaum Quotes

My main concern is with the world order

It is neither feasible nor desirable for Europe to establish itself as a geopolitical equal or competitor of the U.S.

We believe we are creating the beginning of a new world order coming out of the collapse of the US-Soviet antagonisms.

Vladimir Putin likes Donald Trump because he supports this view of the world, that the big guys can carve it up, sit and talk about the world, carve up the countries, shape borders. For Putin, treaties, alliances, Nato, the EU are stumbling blocks.

The Cold War has ended. It's very simple. We are no longer living in a bipolar world. The chances that we will go to war with Russia are pretty much ended. Mutually Assured Destruction was a doctrine that worked very well for decades as a deterrent, but the world has fundamentally changed.

It is possible there will be much less support for NATO because there is a lot of identification of the United States with NATO.

Our relations with the other powers of Europe have experienced no essential change since the last session.

The world would be better off with multiple superpowers. When Communist USSR was a superpower, the world was better off.

And the big question for the West, of course, and to the Europeans is, what other countries, which were formerly part of the Soviet bloc, should be incorporated into western institutions?

Since the end of the Cold War, hegemonism has become increasingly unpopular.

Of course the United States and Russia have different interests. Nevertheless, both are strategic partners.

The United States has been unable to create a post-Cold War security architecture in which Russia feels it has a stake.

We are going to liberate Europe, but that’s because the Americans are with us to do it. For, understand this, every time we must choose between Europe and the open sea, we will always choose the open sea. Every time that I have to choose between you and Roosevelt, I will always choose Roosevelt.

When the big powers are in agreement, the U. N. performs. When they aren't, the U. N. is paralyzed.

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

It looks like the so-called "winners" of the Cold War are determined to have it all, and reshape the world into a place that could better serve their interests alone.

Both Russia and the United States are struggling to define their proper roles in the world.

Anybody who says it is in America's interest to not have better relations with Russia doesn't know what they're talking about when it comes to geopolitics.

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

I don't think there is any equivalency between the way the Russians conduct themselves and the way the United States does.

U.S. academics and Upper East Side New Yorkers like to think of the United Nations as a place where foreign ambassadors have intellectual discussions about power and world peace.

Just because the boogeyman of the Soviet Union doesn't exist anymore, it doesn't mean the world is living angelically.

I don't worry about superpower confrontation. You know, I lived through the Cold War days, and where everybody was worried about a Soviet Union armed to the teeth. I think we're going to get along fine with Russia, and I don't see them as internationally ambitious.

Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective - a New World Order - can emerge. . . Now, we can see a New World Order coming into view. A world in which there is a very real prospect for a New World Order. . .A world where the United Nations, freed from a Cold War stalemate, is poised to fulfill the historic vision of its founders.

We must be prepared to see an Association of Nations in conference growing into an organic system of world controls for world affairs and the keeping of the world’s peace, or we must be prepared for – a continuation of war.