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Elements within Russia's political power structure have periodically waged war on the country's business elite--either to rein in the political ambitions of the oligarchs or to grab a bit of wealth for themselves--ever since the Soviet
collapse.
That threat – or at least the threat of East and West Germany both being completely destroyed – persisted until the end of Cold War and the
collapse
of the Soviet Union.
Cuba’s emergence from decades of forced isolation is a victory for the island, while North Korea’s pariah status has led it to the brink of
collapse.
As a result, the mere threat of military action may be sufficient to bring about Ukraine’s economic
collapse.
The
collapse
of Ukraine would be a tremendous loss for NATO and indirectly for the EU and the US.
Ukraine needs an immediate cash injection of, say, $20 billion, with a promise of more when needed, in order to stave off a financial
collapse.
The Lasting Damage of IraqMADRID – The folding of the American flag in Iraq amid a
collapse
of public security and a severe crisis in the country’s fragile political order seals a tragic chapter in the history of the United States.
The civil war has enabled the extremist Islamic State to build up its capacity to the point that, if the Syrian regime were to
collapse
entirely, the group would likely be able to take advantage of the power vacuum to seize control of the entire country.
But the shadow system’s failure after the
collapse
of Lehman Brothers was no less a bank run just because professional investors were involved.
Perhaps the dollar will
collapse
and there will be a burst of inflation in the US as the Federal Reserve Board decides that temporarily abandoning its price-level peg is a lesser evil than the unemployment fallout that will result from a dollar
collapse
and interest rate spike.
The volatile stock market and the renminbi’s “surprise” depreciation are signs of imminent economic collapse, according to this view, as risky investments and high levels of government debt put the brakes on decades of turbo-charged output growth.
Russia’s central national interest is primarily economic, as it reels from the combined blows of the
collapse
in oil prices, weak European growth, and Western financial sanctions.
With Bangladesh unable to pick up the slack, life-saving projects like ours will collapse; the long-term resources we have developed, from the insectarium to new diagnostic devices, will have to be abandoned; and the developing world’s poorest communities will suffer.
The
collapse
of the USSR, America’s self-inflicted wounds – particularly in Iraq – and the spectacular rise of Asia have changed European perceptions of the US.
With the exception of a small number of ideologically committed defenders of free enterprise, few were willing to take the risks inherent in letting major banks
collapse.
The consequences of HDZ's
collapse
shaped the presidential contest.
Likewise, the
collapse
of peace processes in Angola and Haiti and the various setbacks in Cambodia and Nicaragua during the 1990’s reflect a failure to demobilize and integrate.
The Tragedy of Trade BlindnessLONDON – The Doha Round of global free-trade negotiations is on the brink of
collapse
after ten years of talking.
America today presents the paradox of a rich country falling apart because of the
collapse
of its core values.
Did the Israelis really want a resurgence of Islamist violence in Gaza, the potential
collapse
of peaceful politics on the West Bank, and now the right of a recognized Palestinian state to take Israel to the International Criminal Court for war crimes?
Common sense tells us that all NATO candidate countries cannot be accepted simultaneously: that would probably cause the Alliance’s
collapse.
The answer is almost obvious: either the government will collapse, or it will seek to poach supporters from opposition parties.
Why is it that struggles far more complex than the Israel-Arab conflict – apartheid in South Africa, the partition of Germany, or the
collapse
of the Soviet Union – all seem to have been resolved, usually without bloodshed, whereas the Middle East conflict, after more than a century, claims more victims every day?
Together, they form a three-legged stool: take one, and the other two
collapse.
In the 1970s, fear of environmental degradation and societal
collapse
drove some well-intentioned people to remain childless.
On one side are those who caution that departure from the EU would cause trade to collapse, discourage investment, push the UK into recession, and trigger the demise of the City of London as a global financial center.
And the timing couldn’t have been more congenial: the Soviet empire’s
collapse
and China’s opening generated a surge of labor supply for global capitalism – a billion additional workers – that boosted profits and stifled wage growth throughout the West.
That sort of volte-face would be impossible for most of the Brexit camp, for whom the dream of sovereignty trumps the threat of economic
collapse.
Of course, the global financial crisis that had erupted a few months earlier threw the world economy into turmoil, causing output to contract, unemployment to surge, and trade to
collapse.
The Sixty-Year StormToday’s financial crisis, triggered by the
collapse
of the housing bubble in the United States, also marks the end of an era of credit expansion based on the dollar as the international reserve currency.
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