Spectator sports make people more passive, because you're not doing them—you're watching somebody doing them. - Noam Chomsky

It is sometimes claimed that NATO membership increases security for Poland and others. A much stronger case can be made that NATO membership threatens their security by heightening tensions. Historian Richard Sakwa, a specialist on East Europe, observed that “NATO’s existence became justified by the need to manage threats provoked by its enlargement” — a plausible judgment.

لم يعد الاحتلال العسكري السافر ضرورياً، فقد برزت وسائل حديثة مثل: صندوق النقد الدولي، والبنك الدولي.

There are significant strategic interests <nowiki>[</nowiki>in Oceania<nowiki>]</nowiki>, and there's a lot of stuff going on that's important. Not just the United States. For example, France is doing some really vicious things there, in fact they're just wiping out islands because they want them for nuclear tests. And when the socialist government in France is asked, "Why to do this?", they say, "Well look, we have to have nuclear tests." Well, if you have to have nuclear tests, why not have them in southern France? [audience laughter] Why have them in some island in the Pacific? Well, the answer to that is clear, after all they're just a bunch of little brown people or something. But you can't say that exactly, especially if you're a socialist, so something else is said.