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In the latter case, Trump’s hawkish advisers assured him, the restless and poverty-stricken Iranian public would reject hardliners like Suleimani and support the rise of a new leadership cadre that would bring peace and stability to the region.
Johnson and Cummings are prepared to use all the methods that were successful in the 2016 Brexit referendum campaign, when the British public were assured that there would be no question of leaving the EU without a deal.
Indeed, the logic of mutually assured survival does not allow for gray areas.
Nowadays, this access is far from assured in many countries, leading to widespread anxiety and despair.
The government’s political operatives assured me that we would not cave in under pressure.
Many of the young protesters now believe that they have so little to lose that they effectively seek “mutually assured destruction.”
But the tensions between the two powers would be better described as a “cool war,” characterized not by old-fashioned spheres of interest, proxy wars, and the threat of “mutually assured destruction,” but by an unprecedented combination of wide-ranging competition and deep interconnection.
If countries were assured that they would receive support, rather than punishment, they would be able to take a proactive approach to prevention.
Verification of weapons stockpiles would be virtually impossible, and even if it were assured, stockpiles could quickly be re-created.
In a way, the notion that co-dependence can be a deterrent was also present throughout the Cold War, underpinning the doctrine of “mutually assured destruction” (MAD).
Finally, in Argentina, assuming that the new government and the IMF already recognize that they need each other, the threat of mutual assured destruction could lead to a compromise.
Though nuclear technology has many peaceful applications (and may have a short-term role to play in addressing climate change), its most important consequence has been to inaugurate an era of mutually assured destruction.
A pest-control technician treating my house in Delhi, India, once assured me that my home would be termite-free because he was using strong chemicals, and added, for further reassurance, “Ones that are totally banned in the US.”
If they are elected in large numbers this week, rest assured that their pro-Kremlin advocacy will continue.
But that is partly because they had been assured by familiar figures like Boris Johnson and former US Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich that they were doing the right thing.
After seven decades in which both the people of Jammu and Kashmir – India’s only Muslim-majority state – and the international community had been assured that the state would maintain its special status under the Indian constitution, the government unilaterally divided it.
And, unless something goes badly wrong, the challenger’s continued rise is all but assured.
But if the GCC fired the first shots, the European Commission, the ECB, and the European Court of Justice (ECJ) are set to go nuclear, despite the potential for mutually assured destruction.
Modi is contemptuous of the previous government’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), which assured every poor rural household of a hundred days’ paid employment per year.
This scenario is credible, but realizing it is far from assured.
Because we trust each other and are assured that our fundamental rights are protected, we are able to share data extensively and implement integrated solutions.
Still, the principle of “mutually assured destruction” created its own kind of interdependence, leading to cooperation on nuclear-arms control despite the intense rivalry.
Hong Kong’s citizens were assured that they would have a high degree of local autonomy and would continue living in a free society under the rule of law.
As with nuclear deterrence, countries continue to upgrade their offensive space capabilities, until “mutually assured destruction” becomes their best hope of protecting themselves and their assets.
PHILADELPHIA – “No one will be worse off than before, but it will be much better for many,” German Chancellor Helmut Kohl assured East Germans after the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989.
The report had mysteriously disappeared when it reached Washington, DC, but Trohan assured readers it was genuine.
When he had reason to know better, on February 24, he assured the public that the coronavirus rampage “is very much under control in the USA.”
Though Chinese President Xi Jinping has long assured the world that the Pacific Ocean is big enough to accommodate both China and the United States, his actual policies have often suggested otherwise.
Kitty had not only assured him that she loved him, but had even given him, in answer to his question, the reasons why.
He assured her of his love, because he saw that that alone could pacify her now, and did not reproach her with words, though he reproached her in his heart.
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