Tim Marshall

Prisoner's of Geography

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  • Anuar Buranbayevhas quoted6 years ago
    The Prussian statesman Otto von Bismarck, in a double- edged remark, said more than a century ago that ‘God takes special care of drunks, children and the United States of America.’ It appears still to be true.
  • isisvillahas quoted2 years ago
    This is the geopolitics of fear. If China did not control Tibet, it would always be possible that India might attempt to do so. This would give India the commanding heights of the Tibetan Plateau and a base from which to push into the Chinese heartland, as well as control of the Tibetan sources of three of China’s great rivers, the Yellow, Yangtze and Mekong, which is why Tibet is known as ‘China’s Water Tower’. China, a country with approximately the same volume of water usage as the USA, but with a population five times as large, will clearly not allow that
  • Temitope Omowumihas quoted2 years ago
    every US Folsum, Fairfax, and Farmerville would quickly resemble an Iraqi Fallujah.
  • dianaseidovahas quoted2 years ago
    Egypt is one of the most densely populated countries in the world.
  • dianaseidovahas quoted2 years ago
    you didn’t have trees you couldn’t build a great navy with which to project your power
  • dianaseidovahas quoted2 years ago
    created an egg without a chicken
  • dianaseidovahas quoted2 years ago
    Africa’s world war
  • dianaseidovahas quoted2 years ago
    Democratic Republic of the Congo – the DRC.
  • dianaseidovahas quoted2 years ago
    Joseph Conrad set his novel Heart of Darkness
  • dianaseidovahas quoted2 years ago
    sovereignty and immigration.
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