3 Quotes by Marcel H. Van Herpen

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    The Russians have a tradition in which every war is a 'total war'. ... When the decision has been taken to start a war, there is no feeling for the fact that there can be limits and should be limits how this war is conducted." The Russians call this situation bespredel, which literally means "without limits". It implies torture, cruelty, and gratuitous acts of violence which remain, as a rule, unpunished.

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The Russians have a tradition in which every war is a 'total war'. ... When the decision has been taken to start a war, there is no feeling for the fact that there can be limits and should be limits how this war is conducted." The Russians call this situation bespredel, which literally means "without limits". It implies torture, cruelty, and gratuitous acts of violence which remain, as a rule, unpunished.

-Marcel H. Van Herpen

Russia as an umpire is not very different from Russia as an empire.

-Marcel H. Van Herpen

The Kremlin has made a habit of accusing others of crimes of which it has been accused of itself [228]

-Marcel H. Van Herpen

 

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