Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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Summary: Despite relaxed relations between Moldova and Transdniestria, Russia has recently raised the alarm the frozen conflict might turn hot. Is it a serious threat or just a manufactured crisis?
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The U.S. politician Tip O’Neill is credited with the phrase “all politics is local.” UK prime minister Neville Chamberlain, too, discovered the global reach of local politics, admitting on the eve of the Second World War that it was “horrible, fantastic, incredible . . . that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.” Most of us know nothing of the Moldova/Transdniestria conflict,
Peskovas teigia, kad 1939-ųjų pakto niekas neneigs, bet gina įstatymą, drausiantį prilyginti nacistinę Vokietiją SSRS
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LRT FAKTAI Maskva vėl nusitaikė į Lietuvą – tvirtina, kad sovietinė okupacija buvo „pasirinkimas
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LRT FAKTAI Kremlius vėl nusitaikė į Lietuvą – tvirtina, kad sovietinė okupacija buvo „pasirinkimas
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Appeasement of the CCP?
Commentary
In crucial times, we would be fortunate indeed if the leaders of the free world were as courageous, as principled, and as great communicators as Winston Churchill, Ronald Reagan, and Margaret Thatcher.
But such leaders are, unfortunately, rare.
Ordinary leaders have in the past resorted to appeasement, that is, being too ready to make significant and unnecessary concessions to the enemy.
We are living in one of those times when a general war with powers hostile to our way of life seems to be looming but is of course not inevitable. That our potential enemies are coming together is a warning sign.