Britain Quote by Timothy Garton Ash

Russia can be either an empire or a democracy, but it cannot be both. . . . Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be an…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Russia can never be an empire unless it is in control of Ukraine.

— Marvin Kalb

The problem is Russia is a country that has lost 300 years of its history, in terms of most of what was part of…

— Henry A. Kissinger

Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war in Afghanistan, unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Russia is a country that has supported, propped up the worst of anti-democratic regimes in the Middle East, that has practiced - mistreated its…

— Mark Shields

However, if Moscow regains control over Ukraine, with its 52 million people and major resources as well as access to the Black Sea, Russia…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

The Russian empire under czars and commissars has been hard to deal with for other countries.

— Henry A. Kissinger

If the war is lost, the nation will also perish. This fate is inevitable. There is no necessity to take into consideration the basis…

— Adolf Hitler

You know that in the Eurasian space, Russia is the central state, the most powerful state. But to become an empire, a member of…

— Alexander Lukashenko

Russia comes from a place of deep resentment against the West, in general, and the United States in particular. They are rapacious, because they…

— Daniel Fried

Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.

— Dean Acheson