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Like most of Latin America, Brazil was born in the crucible of
conquest
and slavery.
Under Milosevic, a majority of the Serbs turned to radical nationalism based on violence and territorial
conquest.
Putin now has two choices: to suppress dissent as he did before 2012, and stake his popularity on another big
conquest
– say, the seizure of Kyiv – or to give the people what they want, revising the khrushchevki demolition plan to respect property rights.
To be sure, their violent history – which has included conquest, colonization, rebellion, and famine – has left deep-seated animosity.
It is to be hoped that Iraq's
conquest
will be swift and relatively painless.
Europe’s history is one of the concepts of salvation, freedom, progress and humanity, but also of conquest, plunder, colonization, including the export of such dubious articles as one I experienced -- communist ideology.
Furthermore, it requires a sustained commitment until the pre-determined objective is achieved, an objective that neither aims at
conquest
nor seeks to impose NATO’s preferred political order on an adversary.
In Korea, the Yi dynasty ruled from 1382 until the Japanese
conquest
of 1910.
With its
conquest
of Tibet in 1950-1951, China enlarged its landmass by more than one-third and fundamentally altered Asia’s geostrategic landscape.
When Japan emerged as a world power, imperial
conquest
followed, whereas a rising China’s expansionist impulses are, to some extent, checked by other Asian powers.
But this was also the heyday of imperialism, colonialism, violent conquest, and slavery.
Past
conquest
cannot be a legitimate basis for current rule.
And European weakness, not to mention the “treason” of its liberal scribes, paving the way to an Islamist
conquest
of Europe (“Eurabia”) is seen as a ghastly echo of the appeasement of the Nazi threat.
In his
conquest
of power, Mao Zedong used military tactics derived from Sun Tzu, who lived around 500 BC;Confucianism, dating from around the same time, remains at the heart of China’s social thinking, despite Mao’s ruthless attempts to suppress it.
When describing his
conquest
of Chanderi in 1528, Babar offers gruesome details of the gory slaughter of many “infidels” but just a few sentences later he talks at length about Chanderi’s lakes, flowing streams, and sweet water.
Wars of conquest, territorial acquisition, continental surveying, and canal and then railroad subsidies were good for voters, immigrants, and pretty much everyone else except the outnumbered and outgunned Native Americans who got in the way.
In the sixteenth century, Spain emerged as a superpower following its
conquest
of South America.
But they also have a historically ingrained sense of insecurity, owing to frequent
conquest
and domination, which is being aggravated today by the presence of American troops to their west in Iraq and to their east in Afghanistan.
Indeed, the FAO was created in 1945 to bring about a world in which there would be “freedom from want,” which, in the words of its founders, “means the
conquest
of hunger and the attainment of the ordinary needs of a decent, self-respecting life.”
Iraq’s Sectarian NightmareDENVER – With the apparent
conquest
of Iraq’s northwestern provinces – and maybe more – by the militant Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the country’s troubled history has opened a horrifying new chapter.
Many Asians still remember Japanese efforts before and during World War II to create a “Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere” – a self-sufficient bloc of countries, under Japan’s leadership – through
conquest.
Thus, Hirohito might have been seeking to express his view that Japan should avoid a war with the US, especially given that the country had been fighting a savage and unsuccessful war of
conquest
in China for more than four years.
For the Islamic State’s crude and contrived medievalism, the past is of only instrumental value, to be refashioned in the service of violent
conquest
and savage repression.
If Russia is becoming what revolutionary France was under Napoleon, or reverting to Soviet form – shorn of a totalitarian ideology but with an appetite for
conquest
and re-conquest – what is needed is not the “league of democracies” advocated by some conservatives in America.
The first has been around for centuries: the social divisions that trace their origins back to the European
conquest
over Native Americans in the sixteenth century.
More than most places, Latin America was born in violent
conquest.
The Great IllusionThe saddest of the books on my office bookshelf is an old one published nearly a century ago: Norman Angell's The Great Illusion: A Study of the Relation of Military Power in Nations to Their Economic and Social Advantage , which tried to prove that military
conquest
was obsolete.
India has traditionally favored the game of chaupad (four sides), or shatranj (chess), concentrating on contest, conquest, and subjugation.
The world today is too small for any of us to be able to afford for any corner of it to be left out of the
conquest
of Malthusianism.
“The
conquest
of inflation,” Lawson said, “should...be the objective of macroeconomic policy.
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