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In 2009, the “approach by stages of adaptation” launched by Obama seemed to ease bilateral tensions and prepared the way for the 2010 New START arms-reduction treaty, in which Russia and the US took a strategic leap to cut the number of nuclear-missile launchers by half.

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We're constantly creating tensions and conflicts.

Tensions between these two families date back to 1913 when there was a dispute over local political power.

Will there be tensions over immigration, or conflicts over competition for limited resources?

By increasing the political attractiveness of the state, especially in our ethnically fragmented societies in Africa, aid tends to accentuate ethnic tensions as every single ethnic group now begins struggling to enter the state in order to get access to the foreign aid pie.

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