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For Europe’s periphery, this minimalist vision of fiscal integration means one thing: government and private debt will need to fall to levels associated with the AAA-rated economies, because external financing for persistent imbalances cannot be assured.
When Stalin offered Hitler his friendship in the spring of 1939 – formally concluded that summer in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact – Nazi aggression was assured of not being knifed in the back from the East and so was left with free hands to do as Hitler pleased in the West.
While our work in this area is ongoing, what we are essentially developing is a system of “verification with a blindfold” – whereby states and inspectors unable to observe dismantlement directly can still be assured that it is carried out according to agreed procedures.
But America’s continued technological leadership is far from assured.
And, given the stakes, any international agreement with Iran must come with an assured response to cheating, including military action.
The framework for the joint monetary policy negotiated at Maastricht focussed on medium-term price stability, which is to be assured by the European System of Central Banks – the Eurosystem – made as independent as possible from national and European political authorities.
My consultations assured me that there is broad bipartisan support within the US for strengthening American leadership of a comprehensive international response to the dangers posed by the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
There is no assured “pot of gold” at the end of the free-trade tunnel.
But it was a dazzling account of the logic of nuclear deterrence and the mechanics of mutually assured destruction, which both the US and Soviet Union applied throughout the Cold War.
The success of reform efforts can never be assured in advance.
Given Egypt’s concerns about potential water shortages arising from Ethiopia’s new upstream hydropower plants, its assent is far from assured.
Persuading Congress to approve the final pact and/or lift sanctions is anything but assured.
But during his campaign Yushchenko assured Russophones that he would uphold such rights.
Muslims need to be assured of their personal security and guaranteed full civil rights.
Like the paranoid madman in Stanley Kubrick’s classic film, he is flirting with mutually assured economic destruction.
America and China now live with a kind of mutually assured economic destruction, and both presidents know it.
Unlike the Cold War, whose logic of mutually assured nuclear destruction assumed that everybody prefers survival to death, the "war" against terrorism is much less immune to escalation.
It is why West Berlin remained free throughout the Cold War, and why Poles, Estonians, Lithuanians, and Latvians today can rest assured that their freedoms are secure.
Rest assured, this finger-pointing has been gleefully reported in Russia, where Putin has denounced the US rhetoric and called for “mutual cooperation.”
Change is possible, but not assured.
In the event, the nukes were kept in their silos, owing to the deterrent effect of “mutually assured destruction” (MAD) and the effective leadership shown during close calls like the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Although few believe that Trump’s wall is the most efficient way to keep out illegal immigrants, his mentions of it during the 2016 campaign drew wild cheers (at the time, he assured the crowds that Mexico would pay for it).
Mutually assured destruction still (one hopes) rules out a nuclear exchange or mobilization of conventional forces, and there aren’t really any colonial powers left.
Three decades after the end of the Cold War, nuclear weapons – and the terrifying doctrine of mutual assured destruction – remain a pillar of global security.
That month, the US unemployment rate dropped below 6%, and a broad range of commentators assured us that inflation would soon be on the rise, as predicted by the Phillips curve.
Today, US unemployment is 2.5 percentage points lower than it was when we were all assured that the economy had reached the “natural” rate of unemployment.
“But be assured, we will defeat it.
All of these happy outcomes are of course far from assured.
If people must choose between a 10% chance of dying if they go to work and assured starvation if they stay at home, they are bound to choose work.
And through “forward guidance” announcements that interest rates would be kept “low for long” – central bankers assured markets that the era of cheap funding would continue.
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