Determination Quote by John Mearsheimer

The Russians have intensely disliked but tolerated substantial NATO expansion, including the accession of Poland and the Baltic countries. But when NATO announced in…

— John Mearsheimer

In Ukraine, there has never been a consensus behind NATO membership. Even Yulia Tymoshenko was noncommittal when she was still prime minister. Georgia under…

— Heinrich August Winkler

Georgia does not need Russia as an enemy.

— Anonymous

We continue to advocate and demand that the territorial integrity of both Ukraine and Georgia be preserved... It is absolutely unacceptable that in the…

— Andrzej Duda

Hours before the Georgian invasion, Russia had been working to secure a United Nations Security Council statement calling for a renunciation of force by…

— Sergei Lavrov

I reckon that there won't be an intervention in the near future, because Georgia's military adventure revealed the weakness of the Russian army.

— Garry Kasparov

After the Russian army invaded the nation of Georgia, Senator Obama's reaction was one of moral indecision and equivalence, the kind of response that…

— Sarah Palin

The Russians are going to be expansionist whether we [USA] provoke them to it or not. Russians keep saying that we're trying to encircle…

— Christopher Hitchens

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

— Vladimir Putin

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

— Mark Shields

The post-Cold War order in Europe is finished, with Vladimir Putin its executioner. Russia's invasion of Georgia only marked its passing. Russia has emerged…

— Ivan Krastev

On Putin's order, Russian security services try to destabilize NATO allies the U.S. has sworn to defend.

— John McCain