Afghanistan Quote by 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 has lost an empire but not yet found a role. Russia has to decide what it wants to be. And as we know…

— Timothy Garton Ash

The external Soviet empire lasted 45 years. It is shattered, beyond redemption or repair.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Like so many empires before it, the Soviet Union eventually imploded and fragmented, falling victim not so much to a direct military defeat as…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

The blow back from the cold war is that a weakened Russia allowed Afghanistan to become a failed state, and then all this weaponry…

— Jon Stewart

The Russian drama began at the end of 1991, when the Soviet Union mercifully ended. Russia and 14 other new countries emerged from the…

— Jeffrey Sachs

Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century. As for the Russian…

— Vladimir Putin

The starting point for understanding the deterioration in the relationship between the U.S. and Russia lies in Washington rather than Moscow. After 1989, Russia…

— Martin Jacques

Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century. As for the Russian…

— Vladimir Putin

My opinion of the Russians has changed most drastically in the last week than even (sic) the two-and-a-half years before that. It's only now…

— Jimmy Carter

I believe that detente was having almost the opposite effect of what was intended. What was intended was to sort of end the contest…

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

I think that Russia was like a lot of other countries, a lot of empires, in being a tyranny up until the early 20th…

— Masha Gessen