Great / Major Powers Quotes
He used the “united nations” as a general description as the UN had not been created or named yet, However, as this quotation demonstrates, the President was already thinking about a UN idea, but as a realist, he explained that the great powers had to come to some agreement of interests. Actually China and France, at the time, would go along with whatever the United States and Britain wanted to do and had a great common interest, and there was already a strong association of interests between Britain and America. Russia was to be the problem and a complete common interest was never to be, but there was enough to get the United Nations started.
The Scientific Project that developed the Atomic Bomb
The Security Council was never intended to be democratic. It was deliberately designed to give the largest, and most powerful states enough control over critical events so that they would be willing to join at all. Without the undemocratic aspect of the Security Council there would never have been a United Nations.
Vladimir Lenin
Theis was the phrase he used to describe the collapse of the Soviet Union. This and other statements he made about the breakup of the Russian empire, together with his actons reagading foreign affairs, led many Western observers to think that Putin was trying to build up Russia to be amajor World Power as it was relatively recently. This annual address to the Duma has the importance of the United States' President with the State of the Nation Address. Every phrase and sentence is very carefully crafted. Also see Quotation 644184 under Related Quotes foir a more explicit statement,
See {138034} for one world leader’s candid view of treaty obligations.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910. He was right, but it is not clear that he was predicting the cultural, language, philosophical, and economic dominance, and not just the military dominance. He saw England has the largest empire in the world and an imperial United States growing very powerful rapidly.
The Japanese heavily resented the attitude of must Westerners where the Japanese were seen as an inferior and backward race and culture. They did not however believe in equality for the world. They simply wanted to be equal to the West and not in the category of primitive people or backward countries. They wanted to be considered one of the Great Powers. To them for example, the Koreans and Chinese were backward people, but not they. They wanted parity for themselves only of the Asian countries.
While it may be true that some major powers do not presently want unity between Muslims, the Sunni-Shiite conflict has been ongoing for centuries—long before many “major powers” even existed. It is the oldest, continual civil war in history. It is certainly true that major Islamic powers like Saudi Arabia oppose unity was Saudi Arabia is a Sunni majority country and regard the Shiites as not only blasphemous and evil, but see them as dangerous.
