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Europe dominated the world, but it failed to dominate itself. For five hundred years Europe tore itself apart in civil wars.

— George Friedman

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The United States Navy controls all of the oceans of the world.

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Contemporary Europe is a search for an exit from hell.

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Al Qaeda has failed in its goals. The United States has succeeded, not so much in winning the war as in preventing the Islamists from winning, and, from a geopolitical perspective, that is good enough.

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