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“But in the mid-1980s ties were so close that the Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was able to declare: “Israel is Iran’s best friend, and we do not intend to change our position.”129”
― The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
― The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

“Gold and silver taken from the Americas found its way to Asia; it was this redistribution of wealth that enabled the Taj Mahal to be built. Not without irony, one of the glories of India was the result of the suffering of “Indians” on the other side of the world.”
― The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
― The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

“This was typified by the European Union being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2012: how wonderful that Europe, which had been responsible for almost continuous warfare not just in its own continent but across the world for centuries, had managed to avoid conflict for several decades.”
― The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
― The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

“a full 97 percent of our species’ evolutionary timeline just to innovate a mechanical means of rolling something rather than pushing, pulling, or carrying it.”
― T-Minus AI: Humanity's Countdown to Artificial Intelligence and the New Pursuit of Global Power
― T-Minus AI: Humanity's Countdown to Artificial Intelligence and the New Pursuit of Global Power

“It was simply noted in American military reports that “chemical agents” were being used extensively against civilian targets. Iraq was more important to the United States than the principles of international law—and more important than the victims.103”
― The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
― The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
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