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And the US, it should be noted, is the most aggressive and best behaved of all major governments.
The EU was “showing the way” to other great actors and behaved as the “good pupil” of the world class.
He behaved, he explained later, as the early Bolsheviks would: when you disagree with an opponent, you must make your argument loud and clear – and drown theirs with noise.
It has successfully thumbed its nose at international pressure, becoming a beacon to small, vulnerable, and badly behaved states whose leaders want to believe that nuclear weapons will buy them immunity from intervention, and that Iraq’s and Libya’s biggest mistake was to fail to acquire them.
NEW YORK – It is hard to ignore how many highly visible men in recent years (indeed, months) have behaved in sexually self-destructive ways.
This is at least a more interesting proposition than the notion that art should be disqualified just because we don’t like the way the artist behaved in private.
By the same token, perfectly behaved people can break all kinds of social taboos in their art.
That is, German behavior would be a function of how France behaved toward its defeated neighbor.
Then the madness of the Cultural Revolution, when millions suffered terribly, many died, and many more behaved disgracefully as Mao sought to destroy those who had rescued China from his earlier follies.
So far, Venezuela’s elite, and much of the investment community, has assumed the worst and behaved accordingly: no blueprints for Chavez, no options, just badmouthing.
No, they will find that, on the whole, the migrants were well behaved, worked hard, paid their taxes, and were a net economic benefit to the country.
He also behaved, when talking to voters and citizens, as if he was tirelessly running for office for a fourth time.
As the working class was growing in size worldwide, even though its jobs and employment prospects were shrinking in the Anglosphere, these elites behaved as if class were passé.
So, as we recall Palme's assassination we should also remember how he behaved and what he represented.
There is no doubt that Assad has behaved cruelly, but there is also no doubt that the US-led support of the insurrection is a violation of Syria’s sovereignty, one that has contributed to an upward spiral of violence that by now has claimed more than 130,000 Syrian lives and destroyed much of the country’s cultural heritage and infrastructure.
It would be fairer to say that they realized, in spite of his mistakes - among them the way in which he hurriedly, in August 1991, behaved as if the coup in Moscow had succeeded, the links he kept with friends implicated in corruption affairs, and his collaboration with the Nazis - that they had lost one of the outstanding figures of this century, a true father figure of the nation (something needed most in this period where persisting economic gloom and the plague of unemployment extended itself even to Germany.)
There was a time, decades ago, when the US behaved more like a “banana republic” than an advanced economy, restructuring debts unilaterally and retroactively.
China behaved similarly when the five permanent members of the UN Security Council (plus Germany) met to discuss sanctions against Iran for violations of its obligations to the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Germany and Austria behaved the same way.
While climate, geography, and the colonial past share some of the blame for today’s misery, most of the responsibility belongs to those African governments that have behaved so badly.
Bo behaved more like an American politician.
Badly behaved movie stars and politicians skew ideas of the norm – or of what should be acceptable.
Berlusconi’s ministers have scarcely behaved better.
State banks, state approved public societies (trade unions, for example), large state enterprises, act little differently in Romania today than feudal guilds behaved in medieval Europe.
Expecting Abe to show the same inertia as the DPJ premiers who preceded him, they behaved in the way they always had – advancing their own interests, instead of faithfully enacting the policies of the elected government.
Yet they are also convinced that Europe has behaved improperly toward Turkey, through a combination of short-term populist reflexes and the absence of a long-term strategic vision.
The standard bearer for the second line of criticism is none other than Piketty himself – not in anything he has written, but in how he has behaved since becoming a celebrity and a public intellectual.
For two decades, Myanmar behaved likewise, until Chinese overreach, particularly the now-abandoned Myitsone dam project, revealed in full the subservient relationship that China envisioned.
If trade and financial ties always prevented war, the twentieth century would have been far less bloody, and Russia would be far better behaved today.
But there is no reason to assume that the dominant intelligences a few centuries from now will have any emotional resonance with us, even though they may have an algorithmic understanding of how we behaved.
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