Red War Quotes

“People need something to hate to reinforce their own identities.”
― Kyle Mills, Red War

“People don’t want their lives improved. They want the lives of people they hate made worse.”
― Kyle Mills, Red War

“The political parties were no longer organizations concerned with administering the country’s affairs. They were election-winning machines.”
― Kyle Mills, Red War

“The West had become lost—struggling to remember what it was and losing sight of what it aspired to be.”
― Kyle Mills, Red War

“Over the years, I’ve come to believe that we need enemies. They’re how we define ourselves and fighting them gives us purpose. In the absence of a viable external threat, we begin turning on ourselves. I don’t want Russia as an ally. I just want to keep the cold war between us from becoming hot.”
― Kyle Mills, Red War

“Human nature can’t be denied, sir. The world is so complex that the average person is no longer able to understand it. In the face of that, they can be counted on to retreat into tribalism. Nationalism. People need something to hate to reinforce their own identities. And it’s the internal threats—the people they interact with every day—whom they hate and fear most.”
― Kyle Mills, Red War

“People need something to hate to reinforce their own identities. And”
― Kyle Mills, Red War

“People need something to hate to reinforce their own identities. And it’s the internal threats—the people they interact with every day—whom they hate and fear most.”
― Kyle Mills, Red War

“Russia’s just a drunk loser sitting in a bar at two a.m. looking for a fight.”
― Kyle Mills, Red War

“locals’ cheerful fatalism. “If you were to go to the gas station in the morning, that might be a good way to convince them to part with a little diesel.” “Funny,” she said, poking him a little harder”
― Kyle Mills, Red War

“dawn breaking on the horizon. Angled”
― Kyle Mills, Red War

“You play the percentages in this game. If you try to plan for every lightning strike and shark attack you just end up paralyzed.”
― Kyle Mills, Red War

“Over the years, I’ve come to believe that we need enemies. They’re how we define ourselves and fighting them gives us purpose. In the absence of a viable external threat, we begin turning on ourselves.”
― Kyle Mills, Red War

“Survival and victory were simple questions of strength, cunning, and will.”
― Kyle Mills, Red War

“you were only as good as the people you surrounded yourself with.”
― Kyle Mills, Red War

“silently”
― Kyle Mills, Red War

“NATO”
― Kyle Mills, Red War