Conventional Quote by Helmut Schmidt

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

— Vladimir Putin

Even the most favorable outcome of the war will never lead to the decomposition of the main forces of Russia, which is based on…

— Otto von Bismarck

A war must be avoided at all costs. Russia is against any type of use of external force.

— Vladimir Yakunin

Russians understand strength, and if they feel that their opponents are weak, they will take advantage of it.

— Leon Panetta

One cannot overestimate the options the West has available with which it can apply pressure on Russia.

— Andrey Illarionov

What [Russians] want to do is undermine the Western liberal order.

— Daniel Fried

It would be easier to fight the Russian army, and it would give me great satisfaction, but I have a responsibility to my people

— Aslan Maskhadov

You cannot put Russia down on its knees and hold it there because Russia will ultimately pull out.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Russia doesn't want any arms race. Russia would not engage in the arms race. We have enough technological means to provide not very expensive…

— Sergey Lavrov

To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his…

— Anonymous

Another adverse factor was the way the Russians received continual reinforcements from their back areas, as they fell back. It seemed to us that…

— Gerd von Rundstedt

On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of Russia...

— Franklin D. Roosevelt