Zbigniew Brzezinski authors “The World is a Chess Board” Nov
17th 2008 speech, “For the first time in all of mankind humans are
politically awake. These are new and old
major powers face yet another reality in the same respect that is
unprecedented. It is the lethality is
greater than ever before. It is the
lethality to impose control over the politically awake is at a historically
low. I once put it rather pungently and
I was rather flattered, by the British foreign secretary who repeated this
namely, “In earlier times it was easier to control one million people than to
kill one million people. Today is
infinitely easier to kill one million people than to control one million
people. It is easier to kill than to
control.”
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