America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

The problem is Russia is a country that has lost 300 years of its history, in terms of most of what was part of the Russian Empire in Europe, towards Europe, since Peter the Great, has been the territory that is no longer under Russian rule.

Clearly security without values is like a ship without a rudder. But values without security are like a rudder without a ship.

Does anyone have any questions for my answers?

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

I grew up as a discriminated minority in a dictatorship, so obviously the issue of human rights is a matter of concern for me.