“With the more endowed nations constrained by their own higher technological capacity for self-destruction as well as by self interest, war may have become a luxury that only the poor peoples of this world can afford.”

— Zbigniew Brzeziński, book The Grand Chessboard

Conclusion, p. 213.
The Grand Chessboard (1997)

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