Provoked Quotes

“As Krauthammer put it in his rejoinder to Kirkpatrick in The National Interest, denouncing the more conservative Russell Kirk[17] and Pat Buchanan,[18] who urged a return to normalcy, the U.S. now ruled “a super-sovereign West economically, culturally, and politically hegemonic in the world. . . . I suggest we go all the way and stop at nothing short of universal domination.”[19] He later added, “We are living in a unipolar world. We Americans should like it—and exploit it.”[20]”
― Scott Horton, Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine

“Former leftists and Cold War Democrats, the neoconservatives were highly ideological about the beneficence of American military power and, in many cases, close to the nationalist Likud Party in Israel.[12] As neocon columnist Charles Krauthammer put it in Foreign Affairs in 1990, without the USSR in the way, it was America’s “unipolar moment” and opportunity to remake the world as our leaders saw fit.[13] Popular television commentators simply call it “leadership”; neoconservative think tank ringleader and former editor of the Weekly Standard, Bill Kristol, and his writing partner Robert Kagan labeled it “benevolent global hegemony.”[14] Zbigniew Brzezinski, the Jimmy Carter-era national security adviser from the “realist” school, called it “primacy,” “preeminence” or “predominance,”[15] while the technocratic liberal interventionist Michèle Flournoy, undersecretary of defense for policy in the Barack Obama years, referred to America’s political and military posture as “Full-Spectrum Dominance.”[16]”
― Scott Horton, Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine

“Provoked is manna from heaven for anyone who wants to know where the extreme Russophobia in the West came from, as well as the central role the United States played in causing the Ukraine war. Horton provides a detailed account of America’s foolish and dishonest behavior toward Russia in the years since the Cold War ended.” —John J. Mearsheimer, R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service
Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago”
― Scott Horton, Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine