John Pilger Quotes

Geopolitical interests are behind the so-called war on drugs and terrorism.

The stated objective and the mission of Vladimir Putin's Russia is to destabilize the North Atlantic Alliance.

I don't believe the United States will be ready to join Russia in fighting terrorists in Syria.

War is but an instrument of international policy.

The war against terrorism is terrorism. The whole thing is just bullshit.

I'll tell you what the danger is for Europe. It's carrying out a cold war against Russia and pushing Russia into China's arms. That's the threat to Europe.

I really wanted to talk about the War on Terror and say that both sides were completely incompetent [in addressing it]. You can't blame the other side when you're involved in it.

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.

We've been in a period of relative stability and cooperation since the end of the Cold War among the world's major powers, but that may not always exist. And certainly one could even predict that there will be periods of hostility or tension ahead.

Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.

I recognize the United States is a superpower. It has various interests. It has to balance various things.

War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy of the world's first superpower, of a great democracy, with genuinely idealistic traditions.

Of course, I'm drawn to a place like Iraq because It's the biggest story of our generation.

One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition with you, you will have a coalition against you. I don't want to see China and Russia on the side of Iran more strongly than they are.

President Obama's consistent agenda has been to weaken the United States and our allies in pursuit of a more 'balanced' global power structure.

In fact, it struck me when we invaded last year that if we did it without European and East Asian support, we were risking losing our alliance in Europe in exchange for Iraq, and that is a very undesirable exchange.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

Each and every day, Israel's very existence is at stake.

Other than being crazy enough to press a button, there is nothing that Putin can do militarily to fundamentally alter American interests.

It's always a mistake for writers to key their submissions to world events, because they move so quickly and unpredictably, as has certainly proven the case in Afghanistan.

American power in the Middle East is collapsing. It doesn't need much more than a shove, and it will - and that's not going to be a good thing.

When it comes to setting national priorities, determining threats, defining challenges, and fashioning and implementing foreign and defense policies, the United States and Europe have parted ways.

Foreign policy is about choosing from nasty options.

The idea that democracies never make war on each other rests on very thin historical ice.

Great powers engage.