Georgi Arbatrov Quotes

The United States and Russia probably do not have common aims and dreams, but they have common worries: Both Washington and Moscow are concerned about the rise of China and are threatened by the rise of radical Islam.

It has become increasingly clear that Pakistan’s chief aim in aligning with the West was to gain support against India

Many in China find it perplexing that the U.S. and Russian perceptions are still so heavily influenced by the Cold War.

It is at least inconsistent to declare that there can be no doubt as to the defensive nature of American preparations, while seizing upon every similar step by the Soviet Union as incontrovertible evidence of its insatiable imperialism.

The Americans want us to continue fighting but not to win, just to bleed the Russians

For the Kremlin, it is more feasible to preserve its great-power status in cooperation with the United States than in confrontation.

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

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

The United States does not believe in durable coexistence with a moral threat.

Why were the Europeans bothered about the Soviet Union at all? It was nothing to do with us. China had nothing to do with us. Why were we not building, without reference to the Soviet Union, a good society in our own countries? But no, we were all — in one way or another — obsessed with the bloody Soviet Union, which was a disaster…

That's the problem with Russia: The world has changed. Europe is not at war, and no one wants to negotiate with us. The world has changed, but Russia prefers to pretend it has not.

These four mongrels are supposed to be our defense against Communism and the extremes of Arab Nationalism in the Middle East.

If the Cold War is really over, and the West really won, then continuing implicit deterrence does less to protest against a negligible threat from Russia than to feed suspicions that aggravate political friction. In contrast to during the Cold War, it is now hard to make the case that Russia is more a threat to NATO than the reverse.

The United States is as weak as the Soviet Union. If enough pressure is applied to them, they will pull out of the Middle East.

… this whole Near East problem is not just an Arab-Israeli dispute but a problem of the influence of the West as opposed to that of the Soviet. We want no wars, but we do not want a Sovietized world.

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

Russia is not our friend.

America is not really a strong enough state for us to regard it as an enemy of Russia.

The Saudis helped the U.S. ensure that the Russians never got a meaningful foothold in the Middle East.

Mitt Romney said many years ago that he thought Russia was the single biggest geopolitical threat to the United States and their presence in a variety of conflicts of one type or another have borne out much of what Mitt Romney said.

I thought that in general we in the United States were too optimistic in believing that the Soviets might alter what had been for a long time, as a matter of fact for centuries, fundamental Russian policies in respect to the rest of the world.

President Nixon was a pragmatic strategist. He would engage, not contain, China, but he would also quietly set pieces into place for a fallback position should China not play according to the rules as a good global citizen.

Nineteen-seventy-nine had been a year of American setbacks around the globe. Before the year began, Cuban troops were already roaming Angola, and a pro-Communist regime ruled Ethiopia.

It is not in the interest of the German people or in the interest of world peace that Germany should become a pawn or a partner in a military struggle for power between the East and the West.

Nobody should have any illusion about the possibility of gaining military superiority over Russia. We will never allow this to happen.