Aslan Maskhadov Quotes

Great powers engage.

The United States can tell you all about what's wrong with the British, to say nothing of the Russians.

Attempts to put pressure on Russia and to compel it to abandon its values, truth and justice have no prospects whatsoever.

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

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

Russia doesn’t like it when it is humiliated, when it is pressured.

Containment was merely appeasement on the installment plan.

I'm very concerned about the countries bordering Russia. But let's stay off that stuff.

We live in a dangerous world, and Russia has not complied with existing treaties.

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.

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

American presence is, you know, the major cause of balance of power and the stability in this region.

During the Cold War, America took sides not only in disputes between Arab countries, but also in debates within them.

People were really interested in what was going on because of the international context of the Cold War.

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.

Force-backed humanitarianism, which relies on rational influence over events in other countries, may have been a more feasible project in the bipolar era of the Cold War, with its relatively defined and stable web of alliances and proxies.

The West will have to choose: either to come to terms with Russians, or to receive a retaliatory blow. This retaliatory blow will not be by means of war. We will resort to the same weapon: nationalism.

Does anyone believe that Kofi Annan scares Bashar Assad?

Foreign policy is about choosing from nasty options.

It is clearly unwise for us to continue the attempt to carry alone, or largely single-handed, the opposition to Soviet expansion. It is urgently necessary for us to restore something of the balance of power in Europe and Asia by strengthening local forces of independence and by getting them to assume part of our burden.

When two giants meet with each other, when there is too little room for them on the world's surface, they try to measure their strength in order to decide by war the debatable question of hegemony.

The USSR has emerged from the war in the role of one of most authoritative powers in world. It is now impossible to solve serious questions of international relations without participation of USSR.

Russia has been too weak, and the weak get beaten.

Now we are in a period which I can characterize as a cold peace.

The overall or political objective is to impose upon Russia the will of the United States and British Empire.