...foreign policy of a pluralistic democracy like the United States should be based on bipartisanship because bipartisanship is the means and the fra… - Zbigniew Brzezinski

Major world powers, new and old, also face a novel reality: while the lethality of their military might be greater than ever, their capacity to impose control over the politically awakened masses of the world is at a historic low. To put it bluntly: in earlier times, it was easier to control one million people than to physically kill one million people; today, it is infinitely easier to kill one million people than to control one million people.

There is an element of delusional obsession in the French political elite's preoccupation with the notion that France is still a global power.

With the more endowed nations constrained by their own higher technological capacity for self-destruction as well as by self interest, war may have become a luxury that only the poor peoples of this world can afford.