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LobeLog
April 1, 2018
Certainly, there can be no objection to the United States letting its adversaries know that it will return fire with withering fire. That is the essence of deterrence. But Bolton's threats against North Korea go beyond deterrence. Bolton has threatened “pre-emptive war” (as though a war that would claim,Ãâà...
Buffalo News
April 1, 2018
When the Cold War was heating up with fear of a nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union, many Americans had constructed backyard bomb shelters in the hopes of surviving. Bob M. Manke, who grew up in Kenmore, shared those same worries of possible nuclear annihilation, but fromÃâà...
War on the Rocks
April 1, 2018
Not since the end of the Cold War have we faced a more complex and daunting set of foreign policy challenges — including the resurgence of great power ... Alarmingly, the United States today fundamentally lacks a comprehensive strategy to deal with the transformative forces surging across the globe.
Politico
March 31, 2018
"How can we learn the lesson of World War I? You look at Ukraine and you look at Syria and you wonder how those regional conflicts might escalate," Fountain said of two current wars where major rivals, including the United States and Russia, are on opposing sides. "You can see how a conflict betweenÃâà...
New York Times
March 31, 2018
European politicians like Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Hungary or Czech President Milos Zeman are open admirers of Mr. Putin, and President Trump's relations with the Kremlin are a major question mark. Though the United States expelled 60 Russian diplomats and closed the Russian consulate inÃâà...
CW39
March 25, 2018
Trump complained that day that the United States never beats China in a trade deal. “They kill us,” he said, echoing comments he's made since at least the 1980s. Yet Wall Street chose to ignore this trade risk — until now. After Trump's election, euphoric investors focused exclusively on the pro-growthÃâà...
Jacobin magazine
March 25, 2018
Elevating John Bolton to national security advisor suggests that Trump is preparing for the very wars he promised to avoid. ... nuke Iran, urged the United States to bomb Iran and North Korea, abused a female US Agency for International Development (USAID) employee, advocated on behalf of the NationalÃâà...
Charleston Post Courier
March 25, 2018
The 76 years between the United States' signature military conflicts — the Civil War and World War II — proved vital as far as resurrecting The Citadel and its coming of age as the institution people would recognize today. And it almost didn't happen, given the headwinds of political antagonism, dire poverty,Ãâà...
Sputnik International
March 25, 2018
'Plenty of Blame to Go Around' Among Democrats, Republicans in US Wars Abroad ... My whole point was to say that yes, if we look at some of the major wars that have occurred in the United States' history – World War I, World War II, the Vietnam War, they took place, or at least were initiated, underÃâà...
CNBC
March 25, 2018
Asian markets were set to trade lower on Monday, following a global sell-off late last week amid fears that rising tensions between the United States and China could lead to a full-blown trade war. In Australia, the benchmark ASX 200 opened lower, trading down 0.75 percent at 5,777.1 in early trade.
New York Times
March 25, 2018
BENGHAZI, Libya — The United States military carried out its first ever drone strike against Qaeda militants in southern Libya this weekend, signaling a ... armed drone missions from Niger's capital, Niamey, a step that diplomats and analysts say could further widen the Pentagon's shadow war in this part ofÃâà...
CNN
March 23, 2018
Years later, after leaving his post as ambassador to the UN, he pushed to expand the Iraq War into Iran. ... The lesson we want Russia (or anyone else) to learn is that the costs to them from future cyberattacks against the United States will be so high that they will simply consign all their cyberwarfare plansÃâà...
The Denver Post
March 23, 2018
Since World War II, the United States has labored to prevent nuclear weapons from spreading. But once a country has them, Washington ultimately accommodates it, opting to develop some kind of diplomatic influence, if not control, over other nuclear powers, instead of going to war. This pattern reflects theÃâà...
NPR
March 23, 2018
The United States is defending Saudi Arabia's role in Yemen. Defense Secretary James Mattis called the Saudis part of the solution in a brutal civil war. And Mattis vowed, we are going to end this war on positive terms for the people of Yemen. Mattis said all this as he met in Washington with Saudi Arabia'sÃâà...
New York Magazine
March 23, 2018
Just this month, the former U.N. ambassador told Fox News that Trump's upcoming summit with Kim Jong-un was a positive development — because moving right to high-level talks would accelerate the inevitable failure of diplomacy, thereby clearing the way for war between the United States and aÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 23, 2018
Yet these were regarded as aberrations, and, from time to time, the US has prosecuted Americans for War Crimes. There was a degree of ... These would be wars in which the United States lost over 400,000 people, but Americans did not decide that they had to embrace torture. Instead of abandoning suchÃâà...
Brookings Institution (blog)
March 23, 2018
The conflict includes a wide array of actors, each of which have different and often conflicting incentives and priorities in the region. As it becomes increasingly clear that the Bashar Assad regime will stay in power and that ISIS is on its way to complete military defeat, the United States must clearly define itsÃâà...
New York Times
March 23, 2018
A cold war is being waged across the world's most advanced industries. And it just got a lot chillier. Recent tit-for-tat trade actions could deepen what has become a global contest for technological dominance between the United States and China, home to the planet's largest population of internet users andÃâà...
New York Times
March 23, 2018
Stocks on Wall Street closed lower on Friday, ending the worst week for the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index in two years, as investors weighed a brewing trade war between China and the United States that could hobble an otherwise healthy global economy. Markets in New York tumbled through theÃâà...
The Hill
March 17, 2018
The dynamics of the war in Afghanistan must clearly be noted. The United States is fighting an irregular war in Afghanistan, where tactical-level victories do not account for much, and a decisive strategic-level victory is what the counter-insurgents need to look for. This is why the United States often findsÃâà...
HuffPost
March 17, 2018
Overseas, the United States is engaged in real wars in which bombs are dropped, missiles are launched, and people (generally not Americans) are killed, wounded, uprooted, and displaced. Yet here at home, there's nothing real about those wars. Here, it's phony war all the way. In the last 17 years ofÃâà...
HuffPost
March 17, 2018
Whereas history classes covering conflicts such as the Revolutionary War or Vietnam tend to focus on key turning points, battles and leading figures, teachers say that's far more difficult with Iraq. The United States' continued presence in Iraq, with thousands of troops still stationed in the country, provides noÃâà...
New York Times
March 17, 2018
WASHINGTON — Foreign smugglers are trying to ship advanced American technologies — which can be used for weapons and spy equipment — to China, Russia and other adversaries at rates that outpace shadowy and illegal exports during the Cold War, according to United States officials and experts.
AOL
March 7, 2018
LUXEMBOURG/GENEVA, March 7 (Reuters) - Europe and the IMF urged Donald Trump on Wednesday to step back from the brink of a trade war, after the .... In his first tweet on Wednesday, Trump showed no sign of backing down, saying the United States had lost more than 55,000 factories and 6 millionÃâà...
HuffPost
March 7, 2018
U.S. Army Vows Reform After Mishandling Retired Bomb-Sniffing War Dogs ... General said that canine heroes, which saved the lives of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan while working with brigade combat teams to sniff out roadside bombs, were mistreated by the Army after they returned to the United States.
ANSA
March 7, 2018
(ANSA) - Geneva, March 7 - Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) CEO Sergio Marchionne warned the EU against retaliating to the United States' announcement it is imposing new tariffs on steel and aluminium, saying America would win a trade war. "Threatening tariffs against tariffs resolves absolutely nothingÃâà...
History
March 6, 2018
Other countries responded to the United States' tariffs by putting up their restrictions on international trade, which just made it harder for the United States to pull itself out of its depression. In effect, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act “prolonged [the depression] and possibly deepened it around the world, not just inÃâà...
Newsweek
March 6, 2018
"The United States' continued policy aimed at achieving political goals under the guise of the struggle for democracy has been creating chaos in the past 20 years, causing wars and destroying a number of countries," Ryabkov said, according to the state-run Tass Russian News Agency. "Yugoslavia is noÃâà...
The Japan Times
March 3, 2018
MEXICO CITY – U.S. President Donald Trump's threats to unleash a trade war over steel crushed hopes of substantial progress in the latest talks to rework NAFTA, pitching negotiators into ... However, he said Mexico and Canada should be exempted from the measures as NAFTA allies of the United States.
RT
March 3, 2018
“If there's going to be a war to stop [Kim Jong-un], it will be over there. If thousands die, they're going to die over there. They're not going to die here,” he added. “And [Trump] told me that to my face. That may be provocative, but not really. When you're president of the United States, where does yourÃâà...
Express.co.uk
March 3, 2018
North Korea warns of 'dark clouds of WAR' if USA carry out post-Olympics drills with South. NORTH Korea has warned US President Donald Trump of a "dark cloud of war" and it will "counter" the United States plans for joint military drills with South Korea as the hermit state steps up fears of World War 3.
Vox
March 1, 2018
More importantly, he claims that our current conflict with Russia isn't an extension of the Cold War or even a second Cold War; rather, it's the result of decisions made by the United States and Europe after the Cold War ended. I asked Westad what we get wrong about the Cold War, and what that can shedÃâà...
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