The Lost Hegemon Quotes

“Real intelligence in politics, as in science, is the ability to recognize connections that are not necessarily obvious, to see relationships—seeing the interconnectedness of all life, all peoples, and all wars. Real intelligence is the ability to understand that when you unleash a destructive force in one place, it affects all mankind destructively, including those who unleash it.”
― F. William Engdahl, The Lost Hegemon: Whom the gods would destroy

“Potentially the most dangerous scenario would be a grand coalition of China, Russia and perhaps Iran, an ‘anti-hegemonic’ coalition, united not by ideology but by complementary grievances. . . . Averting this contingency . . . will require a display of US geostrategic skill on the western, eastern and southern perimeters of Eurasia simultaneously.” — Zbigniew Brzezinski, former foreign policy adviser to Barack Obama”
― F. William Engdahl, The Lost Hegemon: Whom the gods would destroy

“The U.S. government’s need for an enemy, its search for new enemies is really a way of uniting the country, covering its real motives and appealing for patriotism that is called the last refuge of the scoundrel. Patriotism is not the real motive. The real motive is domination and exploitation, and to get away with it you have to have a rallying ground, an enemy. That is where the military comes in.16”
― F. William Engdahl, The Lost Hegemon: Whom the gods would destroy

“The so-called War on Terror was, in reality, a War using Religion, or the intensity of religious feelings of populations.”
― F. William Engdahl, The Lost Hegemon: Whom the gods would destroy