Assent
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The US has either hesitated to embrace the Arab Spring revolutions (Egypt was a particularly striking case) or has given silent
assent
to their suppression, as in Bahrain.
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Authoritarian clientelist regimes depend on the silent
assent
of their populations and the loyalty of their elites.
As part of America’s continued war-making, the Pentagon announced in December that US forces would remain indefinitely in Syria, ostensibly to support anti-Assad rebel forces in areas captured from ISIS, and of course without the
assent
of the Syrian government.
These were adopted not only with America’s assent, but at its insistence, at a time (the mid-2000s) when China’s renminbi was greatly undervalued, contributing to the loss of millions of US manufacturing jobs.
Scientific disciplines are in constant
assent.
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