• "The Hundred Years' War is a shaking out of what these realms are going to be." - Dan Jones [00:00:10]

• "Edward the Third found to bind together the new nobility, the new generation of nobles who were sort of his his friends, his allies... was foreign war." - Dan Jones…

"This is a battle of annihilation if we fail to grasp it as such in 30 years time we will face the communist enemy again" - Adolf Hitler [00:03:23]

"Attack is everything again and again heavy weapons fire powder iron bombs and grenades we are throwing everything we have at the Russians i predict that in four to 5 weeks time our flag will be hoisted on…

"it turns out that the book [Red Star Over China] really is a fantastic show piece where the communists tell their story exactly the way they want it to be totally unchallenged..." - Frank Dikötter [00:03:21]

"it is Stalin who sets the parameters it is not Chairman Mao." - Frank Dikötter…

"How can India navigate and accelerate its rise in this environment that is the single question... how can India leverage its partnerships... to accelerate its own capabilities at home." - Dhruva Jaishankar [00:02:48]

"The fact is for most political entities in history... they had to think strategically because it was a matter of existential…

"the west still believes that what it stands for as universal values remain always superior to any other set of values and that anybody else who wants to be really civilized and progressive must copy the west" - Professor Wang GungWu [00:01:35]

"It always a mystery to me how Western Europe or North Atlantic failed to gauge the power of Islam…

"To understand what made me and my colleagues become the people we did become, we've got to understand the history because we went through a harrowing period that tempered us—that either broke us or tempered us." - Lee Kuan Yew [00:02:10]

"They are like radioactive dust. How do you get rid of it? You got to vacuum the whole place out and with it…

"Russia and China are eternal neighbors, they're not eternal friends. They have been their worst enemies over the years." - Sarah Paine [00:00:18]

"I can picture one ending to the Ukraine war where China gains a lot of territory in return for putting the screws on Russia to end things in the west." - Sarah Paine…

"What America has and which no other country has ever had to the same extent is it has soft power... it's selling modernity and freedom and if you work hard and if you graft you can be like Americans and you can live the American dream." - James Holland [00:00:00]

"History doesn't repeat itself because of course it can't because that was then and…

"Saying that it's an honest broker is silly and stupid... The United States is supportive of Israel period." - Nasser Alkidwa [00:32:21]

"Either you want democracy or you don't want democracy. If you want democracy you will go for elections and you accept the results of the elections." - Nasser Alkidwa…

"If the only human reality was brute force we would still be living in tiny hunter gatherer bands in the African savannah because the whole of human history is about how do you get more people to cooperate and to trust each other and you cannot do that only with brute force." - Yuval Noah Harari [00:02:58]

"Nationalism at its core is about loving and…

"The past teaches us that there are some evil elements out there and they're not really representative ordinary people... we do have such people out there and often in very important and powerful positions." - Richard Werner [00:03:39]

"You need if you're planning for world war you also need to make sure the opponent is built up first to have a…

"2,300 years before John Nash sat down at Princeton and wrote the 27-page thesis that would win him the Nobel Prize in economics... a man in Pataliputra wrote the same theorem. Not a similar idea, not a philosophical forerunner—the actual theorem." - Ronny [00:00:00]

"He names the players in the system... entirely by their structural relationship to…

"The entire Gulf region is exposed to missile fire from Iran... we know that the desalination plants in the Gulf region, the oil and the gas fields, the port facilities are not protected systematically." - Jeffrey Sachs [00:04:48]

"It's the right way to save the world, and it's the responsibility of grown-ups to try to save the world—not to save…

"A revolution almost invariably is a carnival... but anybody who wasn't befuddled by the romanticism could see that what is coming is fascism of the sandals." - Dr. Abbas Milani [00:10:10]

"If I had to go back I would absolutely give up my right to speak directly about Marxism for the right of Iranian Jews to live in more freedom than they had…

"The whole point of the maritime order is one country doesn't own it. If one country owned it, no one would join it." - Sarah C. M. Paine [00:00:09]

"War is burnout money. They're negative sum. Whatever you get is damaged, and therefore the loser's loss is bigger than what you get." - Sarah C. M. Paine…

"All of life is a series of daring explorations from a secure base." - David Brooks [00:19:48]

"Populism is a belief system for people who feel betrayed. Fanaticism is a response to existential anxiety." - David Brooks [00:21:05]

"Resentment creates a spiritual contraction...…