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Either we make peace with the planet, or we destroy our hard-won prosperity.
In this case, interdependence has created a “balance of financial terror” analogous to the Cold War, when the US and the Soviet Union never used their potential to destroy each other in a nuclear exchange.
Unfortunately, the lack of a coordinated response is transforming a manageable problem into an acute political crisis – one that, as German Chancellor Angela Merkel has rightly warned, could destroy the EU.
Their vision, if realized, would violate European law; already, it threatens to divide and destroy the EU.
That is why terrorists want to destroy them.
If one imagines a deviant group in some society gaining access to biological or nuclear materials, it is possible terrorists could destroy millions of lives.
Yet we continue to destroy them, to the point that only half the world’s original forest cover remains.
But a long-term reoccupation of the West Bank could destroy whatever moderate elements remain in the Palestinian leadership, closing the door on further peacemaking for years to come.
It has to build a normal economy otherwise the latent radicalism of communists, tsarists and fascists will destroy all hope for a stable economy and society.
There is something criminal in the determination of some Israeli forces to destroy this opportunity, and something tragic in the helplessness of the rest of Israeli society to prevent it.
Reintroducing the national currency in order to depreciate it, but leaving the euro value of other financial instruments untouched, would destroy balance sheets and wreak financial havoc.
The same applies to a European effort to rebuild relations with Iran, or a joint initiative to invest in helping Russia to destroy its huge arsenal of antiquated nuclear and chemical munitions so as to avoid having these fall into the wrong hands.
In October, UN inspectors took initial steps to destroy Syria’s chemical-weapons stockpiles and facilities, with the government’s full cooperation.
And, in practical terms, it is bound to destroy the social cohesion on which democracy – or, indeed, any type of peaceful, contented society – ultimately rests.
As Merkel correctly foresaw, the migration crisis has the potential to destroy the EU.
Totalitarian ideologies deliberately seek to destroy the open society; laissez-faire policies endanger it, but inadvertently.
As a practical matter, efforts to verify, secure, and eventually destroy Syria’s huge supply of chemical weapons cannot be implemented without at least a lasting ceasefire.
But as the ancient Greeks used to say, those whom the gods will destroy, they grant their wishes.
One key reason is that the technological innovations that destroy some existing jobs also create new ones.
This gives rise to what may be called financial protectionism, which threatens to disrupt and perhaps destroy global financial markets.
The Kaczynskis want to destroy the “corrupt system composed of careerist politicians, post-communists, former secret service functionaries, and criminal organizations,” who, according to the twins, have ruled Poland since 1989.
Ironically, California’s progressive tax and spending policies create such volatility that they destroy the state’s ability to fund everything, even basic services from education to health for its most vulnerable citizens.
In 1886, a Wisconsin congressman declared outright his “intent to destroy the manufacture of the noxious compound by taxing it out of existence.”
Operating within this framework, US and coalition forces would clearly be entitled to disrupt, degrade, and seek to destroy the Islamic State’s capability in a way that would also serve the counter-terrorist objective.
Under his watch, the central focus of the Kremlin’s communication strategy has been to sustain the perception that the West wants to destroy Russia.
Saudi Arabia seeks the overthrow of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and believes that America’s agreement with Russia to destroy the Assad regime’s chemical weapons amounts to renunciation of that goal.
The urge to destroy can be contagious.
Given its size and importance, and regardless of its intentions, China will, perhaps inadvertently, destroy the international system if it does not either actively endorse and work to maintain it, or reframe it for the greater common good.
But if China’s leaders will neither do more to support the current international system, nor articulate an alternative, and instead continue to hark back to nineteenth-century models of inviolable sovereignty, they will destroy a global order that, warts and all, has served the world exceedingly well.
As those in power destroy the environment, launch wars on false pretexts, foment social unrest, and ignore the plight of the poor, they seem unaware that they and their children will also pay a heavy price.
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