Yuval Noah Harari in conversation with RUSI Chairman, Lord Hague of Richmond

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  • Yuval Noah Harari is joined by Lord Hague of Richmond, Chairman of the RUSI, as they explore topics from ’21 Lessons for the 21st Century.’
    RUSI is an independent think tank engaged in cutting-edge defense and security research.
    Transcript available here: www.ynharari.com/7336/

Komentáře • 166

  • @asadfami7623
    @asadfami7623 Před 3 lety +10

    Yuval Noah Harari is an international treasure. He's also such a gentleman. He always pours water for his hosts on stage when he's helping himself. What an incredibly beautiful and amazing human being. Love Yuval.

  • @yossimolcho841
    @yossimolcho841 Před 5 lety +37

    The way Yuval details the subject, and argues - is something that needs to be taught in schools

  • @lunamack5218
    @lunamack5218 Před 5 lety +24

    Yuvali, you are probably the brightest mind on Earth so far!!! I adore you!

    • @jstello
      @jstello Před 5 lety +1

      Luna mack Nobel prize worthy for sure

  • @hamidkhodapanah1123
    @hamidkhodapanah1123 Před 4 lety +10

    Yuval Noah Harari, it is very nice of you to share these videos. Some of them are just shared by you. In the time everyone wants to sell every bit of info they have. big respect.

  • @pradipsinhmahida7756
    @pradipsinhmahida7756 Před 5 lety +83

    Harari is one of the most intelligent people of this era...

    • @guteneshoma
      @guteneshoma Před 5 lety +1

      He is knowledgeable, that doesn't make him intelligent like Einstein for instance..
      We all can become knowledgeable by just reading more..

    • @pradipsinhmahida7756
      @pradipsinhmahida7756 Před 5 lety +7

      @@guteneshoma in the era of abundance information you can get thousands of new ebook online everyday . Just reading isn't enough... What to read and why to read is really matter of intelligence... This is one of the biggest skills to acquire in current time... I am really impressed by knowledge this author acquired and shared in such simple language...

    • @cesarrodriguez8893
      @cesarrodriguez8893 Před 5 lety +4

      Agreed!! He is the greatest mind of our time.

    • @jesusrajaimesbe
      @jesusrajaimesbe Před 5 lety +1

      Reading to Prof. Yuval I get to a theory that can help to avoid climate change. Thank you very much
      Here is: czcams.com/video/TIXmPj-_mik/video.html
      It has subs.

    • @Silicon7104
      @Silicon7104 Před 3 lety +1

      Well he is Jewish .. no surprise...

  • @ledagarciadaeira2097
    @ledagarciadaeira2097 Před 5 lety +27

    Watching from Brazil as an avid reader of Yuval. Thank you, RUSI

    • @shenlaoshi7106
      @shenlaoshi7106 Před 5 lety +2

      Me too, I love his ideas!

    • @njits789
      @njits789 Před 5 lety +2

      Brazil? My condolences with your new president.

    • @maurilioBeeblebrox
      @maurilioBeeblebrox Před 5 lety

      Come to Brazil Harahi! We need your ideas haha

    • @RicardoAGLourenco
      @RicardoAGLourenco Před 5 lety

      another from brazil

    • @privacymia64
      @privacymia64 Před 3 lety

      @@maurilioBeeblebrox não ...coitado...deixa ele dando indicações sábias de longeeee

  • @Zaritibet
    @Zaritibet Před 2 lety +3

    I think you are one of a great human being. Respect 🙏

  • @wisamtariq4412
    @wisamtariq4412 Před 5 lety +29

    Great as usual, with our love and respect.

  • @margaretsaleeby9531
    @margaretsaleeby9531 Před 3 lety +5

    Just found this even thought I follow Yuval avidly! For me it was a nice review of many of his key concepts as well as being able to see how much of what he said then has become even more pertinent in today’s global climate.

  • @D.2023
    @D.2023 Před 5 lety +24

    The interviewer is so classy. Loved the interview.

    • @joshuddin897
      @joshuddin897 Před 2 lety

      Hes a tory

    • @hansschwabe8301
      @hansschwabe8301 Před 2 lety

      The wisest person I ever listened to.
      He is so clear about our big picture problems and options .

  • @lunamack5218
    @lunamack5218 Před 5 lety +5

    יובלי, תודה רבה!!! כרגיל, אתה כל כך מרגיע ומעורר בו זמנית... מה הייתי בלעדייך!!! מתה עלייך!!!

  • @kaiftintoiwala6414
    @kaiftintoiwala6414 Před 3 lety +4

    I am obsessed with your books.

  • @triptirathore9027
    @triptirathore9027 Před 3 lety +2

    Just Love and respect Prof Harari
    Happy Valentine’s Day

  • @ynacesskyle6311
    @ynacesskyle6311 Před 5 lety +5

    I hope you will write more books Mr.Harari. ive learned many things from you.

  • @Maximohdez
    @Maximohdez Před 3 lety +10

    The more i listen and read Yuval the more i like him. Highly intelligent and humble!!!

  • @arianitbezhani1714
    @arianitbezhani1714 Před 4 lety +6

    This discussion is one of the finiest that I've ever seen. Thanks

  • @DominicDSouza
    @DominicDSouza Před 5 lety +6

    Excellent. Thank you for the share and well done to RUSI for hosting!

  • @m.elmoussair2309
    @m.elmoussair2309 Před 5 lety +19

    I respect this man and his books

  • @ammelie987
    @ammelie987 Před 3 lety +5

    Yuval, you have a wonderful mind! Your book Sapiens enlighted me, I really see things different now it is just mind blowing! Thank you! 🙏

  • @froukjematthews3421
    @froukjematthews3421 Před 5 lety +5

    Yuval, you are a treasure....you really are....

  • @richardowensnr6243
    @richardowensnr6243 Před 4 lety +11

    Brilliant interview from every angle, over two years old and still topical...

  • @MyNguyen-uh4qx
    @MyNguyen-uh4qx Před 2 lety +2

    What an interesting talk between two intelligent men

  • @gin1740
    @gin1740 Před 5 lety +9

    I am reading his 'sapiens' and it is brilliant!

  • @qrious5107
    @qrious5107 Před 5 lety +28

    This is the second time this month, I have observed Yuval Harari pour the water for the interviewer.

  • @tubevalve8366
    @tubevalve8366 Před 4 lety +3

    Yuval for President !!!

  • @truthaboveall7988
    @truthaboveall7988 Před rokem

    I admit I fall asleep often listening to Yuval I am addicted to his mind & voice

  • @kaiftintoiwala6414
    @kaiftintoiwala6414 Před 3 lety +3

    I just want to meet him and ask him so many questions.

  • @harveydayaday4753
    @harveydayaday4753 Před 2 lety +1

    The audience is very smart. I wish Yuval answers very concretely than playing with words moving in the opposite direction to the question.

  • @shenlaoshi7106
    @shenlaoshi7106 Před 5 lety +6

    another great talk! Thank you!

  • @ITERCYNTAI
    @ITERCYNTAI Před 4 lety +4

    Can not stop listening to Mr Yuval

  • @lizgichora6472
    @lizgichora6472 Před 3 lety +1

    Thank you both for a superb analysis .

  • @johnbouttell5827
    @johnbouttell5827 Před 5 lety +15

    There's always hope -- as long as we keep telling each other captivating stories

  • @londonengland2309
    @londonengland2309 Před 5 lety +6

    Yuval is amazing!

  • @edasserydivakaran8386
    @edasserydivakaran8386 Před 5 lety +4

    very illuminating

  • @ytb3748
    @ytb3748 Před rokem

    In all Yuval's interviews, he graciously pours water to his guest/interviewer when there's a shared bottle or a jug

  • @edithhorvath2829
    @edithhorvath2829 Před 2 lety +1

    YNH. You are great!
    Thank You for your insight and sharing with today's humanity !
    Your absolute desire to help globally yet on each of us to understand life in present and considering a better future outcome for all of us bring tears in my eyes after some of your talks. 🌸

  • @triptirathore9027
    @triptirathore9027 Před 3 lety +1

    Dying to read all your books

  • @rapturebound197
    @rapturebound197 Před 2 lety +2

    Harari has a dangerous mind.

  • @judithmcdonald9001
    @judithmcdonald9001 Před 3 lety +1

    "You should fight the nuts before you fight the terrorists"

  • @christopherfield1748
    @christopherfield1748 Před 5 lety +1

    Bleak... only if we as individuals do not have the ability to control our data supply. I look forward to understanding even more of myself using the analysis of my choices as an additional barometer.
    The data miners/correlators need to be required by law to allow us individually to inspect and dispute / edit OUR data, much as we do with OUR "Credit Scores".

  • @elianiisrael414
    @elianiisrael414 Před 2 lety +3

    Thanks for sharing so important informations. I admire you!

  • @eSKAone-
    @eSKAone- Před 5 lety +6

    The best.

  • @naderqabazard318
    @naderqabazard318 Před 2 lety +1

    I love listening to this man.read his books but listening is very stimulating .

  • @chrismaupin
    @chrismaupin Před 4 lety +1

    I want this moderator to narrate my life.

  • @gunashekarmdu82
    @gunashekarmdu82 Před 3 lety +2

    A wonderful Person and it shows what he is inside is as same as outside Hats off Harari

  • @veronicabasualdo8997
    @veronicabasualdo8997 Před 5 lety +1

    La humanidad necesita un gran hermano decidido a cambiar el rumbo de nuestra historia hacia el respeto a la naturaleza y los valores humanos.

  • @ikezach5469
    @ikezach5469 Před 5 lety +2

    He present everything as a very simplistic vision. For example the fortresses, and the three global issues.

    • @ROBERTBROWN090564
      @ROBERTBROWN090564 Před 5 lety

      Ike Zach Its this very simplicity that makes what he is saying all the more important. We need international cooperation at a very deep level to find solutions to three main global problems, otherwise we die. It's as simple as that.

    • @ikezach5469
      @ikezach5469 Před 5 lety

      @@ROBERTBROWN090564 Agree, we need global cooperation to resolve many things beyond the three mentioned, e.g.; one dictator (Maduro, VE) destroys life of 25 millions. I like Yuval a lot, but I think we start to believe in him like he is the Mesaia Many of the theories he's spreading, are not based on any thorough research, and it isn't his field anyway.

    • @ROBERTBROWN090564
      @ROBERTBROWN090564 Před 5 lety

      Ike Zach As bad as VE is, it is not a global existential threat. The US media are obsessed with VE and virtually ignore climate change for example, which I think is a disgrace. I'm interested though, what theories you think Harari is spreading that are not based on research?

    • @ikezach5469
      @ikezach5469 Před 5 lety

      @@ROBERTBROWN090564 one example WRT no sufficient research, as he talk about the employment changes vis-a-vis AI effect. It is very possible that the service employment will grow many fold, as more, and more wealth is created.

    • @ROBERTBROWN090564
      @ROBERTBROWN090564 Před 5 lety

      Ike Zach If you listen he specifically refuses to make predictions for the future. He is just saying we should prepare for the possibility that AI will replace more jobs than it creates. I’ve recently read a book called Life 3.0 and creating useless class is the very least of the many potential threats AI might present us with. It might be wonderful or it might be catastrophic, but we need to start the conversation now as the future is accelerating fast. Please read Life 3.0

  • @cfcreative1
    @cfcreative1 Před 4 lety

    When can I order my Google ditch digger 2000. I heard if I order early I
    can get my repair robot X1 so I am covered when my digger 2000 goes
    down.

  • @gstrummer
    @gstrummer Před 5 lety +3

    Great interview. Bad camera work

  • @eSKAone-
    @eSKAone- Před 5 lety +2

    His last sentence is so interesting. I have to think of Charles Manson (though arguably being controversial), his mind was something else, in my eyes very clear, and he also meditated day by day in his cell.

  • @shankarsah2858
    @shankarsah2858 Před 10 měsíci

    World is leading towards peaceful and comfortable era of human life, after present turmoil and conflicting situation.

  • @4relevants
    @4relevants Před 5 lety +1

    Good to know emergency door.

  • @chufang50
    @chufang50 Před 5 lety +4

    This discussion is very timely!🧐 We need strong leader with global worldly vision!🤔 God bless earthly beings!🙏

  • @mghaderyan
    @mghaderyan Před 5 lety +3

    Even people that claim they understand global economical system made terrible mistakes for example the 2008 crisis. So, no difference :)

  • @Igor-qp9fo
    @Igor-qp9fo Před 5 lety +1

    if you can say one negative about Harari. He is either naiv, or too careful. Its obvious where we are heading to, without any doubt!

  • @starfishw7138
    @starfishw7138 Před rokem +1

    In war everyone Looses and Mom cows feel grief, crying days for days when their babies are ripped from them and murdered. As we destroyed most of life on the planet during the past I am wondering how things might change for the better.

  • @JohannesObers
    @JohannesObers Před 5 lety +7

    new video making my sunday nice :)

  • @KrishnaHarish
    @KrishnaHarish Před 5 lety +2

    👏🏼

  • @bougatses
    @bougatses Před 5 lety +1

    You don't need to know how the current financial system works. You only need to know how it doesn't work.

  • @javadhamedan
    @javadhamedan Před 2 lety +2

    All his videos he says the same thing, so that means his has specific message, that means wake up to the world you can hear what's happening but you haven't got power to change. He has no solution!

  • @h0tie
    @h0tie Před 5 lety +1

    57:50

  • @johndonovan7897
    @johndonovan7897 Před 5 lety +1

    A question I would like to ask Harari is, if algorithms will eventually know us better than we know ourselves, will algorithms make better decisions for us than we would otherwise? And would we follow the algorithm's suggestions? For example people, who vote against health care when they actually need health care.

    • @cesarrodriguez8893
      @cesarrodriguez8893 Před 5 lety

      He would answer "Yes".

    • @chewyjello1
      @chewyjello1 Před 5 lety

      If it's a question of allowing a computer to make our decisions or having to actually know and therefore face ourselves...I say most will chose the computer overlord.

  • @eSKAone-
    @eSKAone- Před 5 lety +3

    51:50 :)

  • @JH-ji6cj
    @JH-ji6cj Před 4 lety

    Here from the Stanford talk he was involved with, but had to thumb-down just from principle due to the comments being removed. To think, they are discussing the fears revolving AI and what engineering concerns are involved, and free speech discourse removal is the priority of the University.

  • @gkacademy1594
    @gkacademy1594 Před 3 lety

    Yuval Noah Harari in conversation with Bruce Willis.

  • @ikezach5469
    @ikezach5469 Před 5 lety +2

    But what do you do if one country plays the global game while it building the biggest fort ever imagine, i.e., China.

  • @skiyman
    @skiyman Před 5 lety +1

    we're at the dawn of a new era, not surprising. If humankind is indeed reduced through a deterioration of the environment, or through war, or through loss of control of our eco-systems to robotic intelligence, than we must accept the fate that we have brought upon ourselves our destruction, however let us hope than in our stead will come something better.

  • @alejandranovello3274
    @alejandranovello3274 Před 3 lety

    "It s not a law of Nature that we clash". It depends on US.

  • @naquita-jaynelloyd3334
    @naquita-jaynelloyd3334 Před 3 lety +3

    Yuval is an inspiration.

  • @humphrex
    @humphrex Před rokem

    they key to the "fortress" situation is to not allow fortresses to become big enough to build nukes and other dangerous technology, ofc this all must be build on trust, not money.

  • @turki8823
    @turki8823 Před 3 lety

    أين الترجمه

  • @PatriciaRosha
    @PatriciaRosha Před 2 lety

    I think, when Yuval is not expounding his ideas, which he does with such passion, is a very shy person. I can see how this may have caused him to bury himself in books. I don't know why, but l feel like suggesting to him to go out with his friends and have a really good night out. There has to be a balance, then come back and look at your thoughts from a fresh angle.

  • @KarmaGirlDreams
    @KarmaGirlDreams Před 2 lety

    Yuval is 🔥

  • @pauldirac4718
    @pauldirac4718 Před 5 lety +1

    There's certainly a loot of coercion in the free market, though.

  • @pbkvprasad1163
    @pbkvprasad1163 Před 4 lety

    Ray Dalio, the hedge fund Titan already uses computer along side of him in highly complex decision making like using gps to assist driver. So computer is a sidekick positively here. What yuval writing in his books, to some extent, coming true up to know positively in many apps. To take care of negative side of computing power and biotech combined, the humanity has to think hard, cooperate wonderfully on global scale. But to know yourself better, in addition to meditation all humans have to study behavioural sciences research. In behavioural research, scientists already mapped human decision making almost comprehensively. I am surprised, Yuval never mentioned about behavioural sciences research in humans knowing about themselves and good decision making. I personally felt after reading James montier book on behavioural investing and other books on this topic , my decision making became much better. It is great excitement and satisfaction reading this behavioural research. So to know yourself better , study behavioural sciences, various types of meditations and may be Buddhism also (because Buddhism is all about reducing suffering, calming mind and body to know what is peace). And moreover I would add that, we are blessed having compassionate,super thinker like Yuval Harari in this world. Thanks Yuval on behalf of whole humanity.

  • @ikezach5469
    @ikezach5469 Před 5 lety +1

    Does any one dare to challenge Yuval that he isn't the new Masia?

    • @spacemonk4874
      @spacemonk4874 Před 5 lety +1

      He definitely isn't, and he would be the first to say that. He is just somebody with a clear mind and a great understanding of history and human nature.

  • @kevinfairweather3661
    @kevinfairweather3661 Před 4 lety

    Watched

  • @AndreClements
    @AndreClements Před 5 lety +1

    the answer on education seems a bit myopic, his response assuming education is almost only about conditioning kids for employment. Education via e.g. self directed education can be a lot more creative and innovative than that and clearly given all the other points desperately needs to be.

  • @generalizedpaperfold
    @generalizedpaperfold Před 5 lety +2

    No more flee will? :(

  • @arthouseexcel3360
    @arthouseexcel3360 Před 3 lety +1

    Super

  • @claudiagabriela6419
    @claudiagabriela6419 Před 5 lety +2

    It sound to far from our reality, when we belong to latinamerica under a dictatorship regime, it sound so frightening for us, when in our countries the last thing is to take care of the need of the people instead they opress them so they can not reach their potential. Becoming in a very mediocry people, because they dont get any education but the corruption that they can breathe in the environment. I don´t know if in the future we have to continue leave this countries like mine México.

    • @josephfriday2661
      @josephfriday2661 Před 3 lety +1

      Claudia Gabriela Here in the US we have many Mexican laborers. Most of them have an advantage of not being very well schooled. I ask one of them why Mexico was so corrupt and poor and he answered, “Because Mexicans live there”. I know that his answer will make many squirm in there seats, but certainly his answer should at least provoke some thought. This man has no academic commitment nor political commitment and may be able to see the obvious.

  • @ruudvanveen428
    @ruudvanveen428 Před 4 lety

    ALL War IS in LANGUAGE: Because IT IS SPIRIT. Where is the area you uttered is (relative) NO WAR?

  • @meta-alien
    @meta-alien Před 4 lety

    that's some nice water

  • @43painter
    @43painter Před 4 lety

    I think the host is a bit tipsy . . . a precaution to calm the nerves? Nevertheless a great talk.

  • @porkberries4496
    @porkberries4496 Před 3 lety

    You may have a vision but you don't have the energy.

  • @johnanderson3700
    @johnanderson3700 Před 3 lety

    Can we really even say that, in some way we don’t yet understand, that plants don’t have consciousness and emotions? May sound far fetched, but do we really know?

  • @walterbishop3668
    @walterbishop3668 Před 3 lety

    He looks like Eisenhower

  • @lukecashin
    @lukecashin Před 5 lety +1

    His ideas concern me. And the fact he keeps getting interviews with everyone from war criminals like Hague to IMF should speak volumes. Neoliberalism has literally fucked the earth and communities into submission.

  • @minhajtunu9513
    @minhajtunu9513 Před 3 lety

    I dont think that the vision is truth. If so then it would be disaster at the end. Truth prevails and the instinctions fails.

  • @meirepereira1973
    @meirepereira1973 Před 5 lety +1

    The big brother will be real ?

  • @bellow_musicalpoetry
    @bellow_musicalpoetry Před 5 lety +3

    present no new ideas. understand the essentials that we all need to survive. evaluate natural resources and share them equally. respect nature and all living beings. establish profound respect for existence and then move forward, not the other way around.

    • @bellow_musicalpoetry
      @bellow_musicalpoetry Před 5 lety +1

      @Jonathan Bowen i don't know of a time in history when the world's natural resources were shared equally with all the inhabitants on the planet. obviously such a cynical answer can only come from a mind that has not yet learned how to do any of these things. maybe i'm wrong, but the lack of respect for life has pushed us, humans, to the brink of extinction, and with us all life will perish, too. intelligence would clearly take any life threatening situation seriously and apply itself adequately, as in the case of malaria carrying mosquitos or cancers. but to destroy life for the sake of destroying it, as we are doing now? that is what is meant by 'respect' and the urgency that is required to live with it.

    • @ryosaeba3942
      @ryosaeba3942 Před 5 lety

      @Jonathan Bowen Well I certainly agree that humans need an upgrade but I don't think that touching only the brain (no matter how deep you go) will be enough. Although the brain is a key point our organism works as a whole in order to interact with the environment (it just evolved in that way). A radical modifications that probably lead to speciation could be the solution but like you said it will take time.

    • @bellow_musicalpoetry
      @bellow_musicalpoetry Před 5 lety

      @Jonathan Bowen do you eat animals, for example?

    • @bellow_musicalpoetry
      @bellow_musicalpoetry Před 5 lety

      @Jonathan Bowen
      1) i have read up to 21 lessons, which i'm just starting.
      2) i didn't say that he doesn't have any new ideas.
      3) i suggested that respect is the factor for healing the world.
      4) i am a long term meditator and i consider myself fixed, in psychological terms.
      5) do you eat animals?

    • @bellow_musicalpoetry
      @bellow_musicalpoetry Před 5 lety

      @Jonathan Bowen i think i made the mistake of not mentioning that i wasn't referring to the author in any way, shape or form.

  • @AntoCapuchin
    @AntoCapuchin Před 2 lety +1

    Yuval is one of the intelligent being of our time.

  • @CorzIlla
    @CorzIlla Před 11 měsíci

    The comments section is utterly soul destroying. How easily the laymen is bamboozled with titles, But fails to see the wolf in sheep's clothing. Your all going to pay dearly for it too.

  • @alexgoslar4057
    @alexgoslar4057 Před 3 lety

    Internalize these insights and chew on them.

  • @FerdBrowne
    @FerdBrowne Před 5 lety +3

    Go....not chess i think he means

    • @klauspeter3352
      @klauspeter3352 Před 3 lety

      i think he was talking about alpha zero (the google ai) and stockfish ... so chess

  • @edris47
    @edris47 Před 5 lety +3

    Harari is make huge assumption, by saying that human beings are intelligent and compassionate, that is absolutely not true. Human beings are smart but not intelligent, we are selfish, greedy, and so many things but not compassionate, we think words are the real thing, so when we use word compassion or love, what we means is emotion, pleasure, jealousy, and so on. He has the right diagnosis of coming self-destruction of humanity, but what he is missing is that, human irrationality desire for power, and almost complete lack of understanding oneself. And with limits of his knowledge, makes it almost impossible to solve these problems of nuclear war, environmental disaster, and Ai and bio engineering. He has excellent suggestion, which is the most important thing in life, to know oneself. But he doesn't tell us what the means are; after thousands of years of religions, analysis, philosophy, and so on have not brought about self-knowing, but in contrary it has made our problems more complex and dangerous. Solution of the problems have becomes much bigger problem, because we do not understand the problems.
    "If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem".
    “It is No Measure of Health to Be Well Adjusted to a Profoundly Sick Society”
    Jiddu Krishnamurti

  • @marcosjosedesousa7591
    @marcosjosedesousa7591 Před 2 lety

    I like you...

  • @didimiamiable
    @didimiamiable Před 2 lety +1

    Saddest outlook on what should be a natural human life cycle. The organic human development and experience seems to be not as important as technology according to Yuval. Does he think our spiritual and human growth through ……without complete exterior AI assistance … Does he think that isn’t worth fighting for? I really don’t think humans can excel that way!!!! We need to make our own decisions and come to our own - self made- conclusions!! It’s how we naturally evolve!!! This concept is absolutely contrary to nature. His ideas are a utopian delusion that is just as dangerous as the ideas that created the USSR!

  • @hamidyasah8127
    @hamidyasah8127 Před 2 lety

    Yuval is half men ,and complicated robot, when he became human, full men i may listen to his crabf

  • @hbilha
    @hbilha Před 2 lety +1

    This guy is a bullshitter. He's always insinsting that its open borders or nuclear war.
    Countries CAN coexist as "fortresses" as long as they have good dimplomatic relations.
    America is fortress, Russia is a fortress, China is a fortress, Turkey is a fortress, Israel is a fortress... and they seem to be going pretty well.