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“A two-year-old doesn’t know much, but it knows when its world has just been turned upside down.”

World War Nation

Book:Shadowplay

Source: Shadowplay

“What is now the EU was set up so that France and Germany could hug each other so tightly in a loving embrace that neither would be able to get an arm free with which to punch the other.”

France Germany European Union Eu

Book:Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

Source: Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

“THE MIDDLE OF WHAT? EAST OF WHERE? THE REGION’S VERY name is based on a European view of the world, and it is a European view of the region that shaped it. The Europeans used ink to draw lines on maps: they were lines that did not exist in reality and created some of the most artificial borders the world has seen. An attempt is now being made to redraw them in blood.”

Borders Middle East Geography Instability Colonization Nation States

Book:Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

Source: Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

“All great nations spend peacetime preparing for the day war breaks out.”

War Peace Preparation Nation

Book:Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

Source: Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics