Putin's World Quotes

“THE BALKAN WARS AND RUSSIA’S CONFLICT WITH NATO The split between Russia and the West came in the Balkans, the same cauldron of competing ethnicities and religions that had given birth to World War One. Much of Russia’s suspicion of and opposition to NATO was rekindled during the Balkan wars of the 1990s. Yugoslavia was a patchwork”
― Angela Stent, Putin's World: Russia Against the West and with the Rest

“Treaty of Rapallo, which eventually enabled Weimar Germany to rearm—in full morning dress. The other foreign policy was that of a revolutionary”
― Angela Stent, Putin's World: Russia Against the West and with the Rest