United States foreign policy

“No ceasefire is going to be possible. I mean, it's gonna be hard enough as it is to get anything remotely like a deal, but it's not gonna be possible if you're, you've defined regime change as your objective.”

“And what we're doing right now, what we're doing right now is pushing China and Russia together into a new axis block.”

“But what always happens is that when America has a vital interest, You always cloak it in liberal rhetoric about rights and freedom and democracy and that kind of thing. But what's frequently driving the decision is American interests underneath.”

“Do you think that we can run around the world imposing liberal democracy on other countries, and in some cases, shoving it down their throat, doing it at the end of a rifle barrel. And my argument is that's almost impossible to do. It almost always backfires.”