Geopolitics

“While the New START treaty is an important first step forward, it is just one step on a longer journey.”— […]

“It is an event of global significance, for we are imparting to the dismantling of the infrastructure of fear that

“The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson *The Cold War was

#NATOexpansion; #NATOhistory; #Warsaw Pact; #ColdWaralliances; #MikhailGorbachev; #notoneincheastward; #NATOmembershipwaves; #Europeansecurity; #RussiaNATOrelations #NATOenlargementtimeline; #ABMTreaty; #Antibalasticmissile; #MAD; #Mutuallyassusreddisstruction; A World Caught Between Titans

“Not one inch eastward” Baker James (U.S. Secretary of States) #Globalhegemony; #NATOEXPANSION #Strategicpower; #Internationalrelations; #Geopoliticstoday; #U.S.globaldominance; #Riseandfallofempires; #Greatpowercompetition; #Multipolarworld; #DeclineoftheWest;

# Syria Reconstruction, #Marshall Plan for Syria, #Economic Recovery, #International Aid; #Post-war Development; #Infrastructure Rebuilding; #Foreign Investment; #Middle East Stability;