“Here is the irony: Europe dominated the world, but it failed to dominate itself. For five hundred years Europe tore itself apart in civil wars, and as a result there was never a European empire – there was instead a British empire, a Spanish empire, a French empire, a Portuguese empire, and so on.”

“Here is the irony: Europe dominated the world, but it failed to dominate itself. For five hundred years Europe tore itself apart in civil wars, and as a result there was never a European empire – there was instead a British empire, a Spanish empire, a French empire, a Portuguese empire, and so on.”

— George Friedman