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NATO is developing a ballistic-missile defense capability to protect our European populations and territory against a grave and growing threat.
Colombia has called for negotiations to determine a fair and mutually acceptable solution to the grave disputes between Venezuela’s government and the opposition.
The changes, however, are notably weaker and more complex in countries like Palestine and Iraq, owing to the grave conflicts they have been undergoing.
Europe’s Ukrainian TestWASHINGTON, DC – The recent start of the trial in Kyiv of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, one of the leaders of Ukraine’s Orange Revolution, on charges of abuse of power raises grave concerns about President Viktor Yankovych’s commitment to democracy and the rule of law.
Yet another grave danger is to the US itself.
But if we do not stand up to them we all run a grave risk of repeating some of history’s great mistakes.
The alternatives pose grave risks for both countries: an ever-escalating trade war, a cold war, or even a hot war.
The Bretton Woods system institutionalized America’s geopolitical supremacy, leaving the old imperial power, the UK, to step aside – a step that it took graciously, if a little desperately, given its grave postwar economic situation.
These are grave violations of civil liberties, and tech companies should beware of blindly acceding to government demands that might facilitate them.
Even if Trump loses next month’s election, the Arctic – and the entire planet – will be in grave danger unless the new administration radically strengthens efforts to cut emissions of both CO2 and short-lived climate pollutants.
Given grave doubts about whether existing measures, such as the 2015 Paris climate agreement, are likely to do more than slightly slow down global warming, pragmatists are right to see preparing for the worst as a grim necessity.
But the neoliberal model has had grave unintended consequences, such as environmental degradation, rising inequality, and the emergence of monopolies (especially in the tech sector).
Iraq’s grave institutional deficiencies go hand in hand with a widespread feeling of humiliation brought on by the country’s subjugation to the will of foreign powers.
As this example shows – and as John Stuart Mill argued in his classic On Liberty – once we allow, as a ground for restricting someone’s freedom of speech or action, the claim that someone else has been offended by it, freedom is in grave danger of disappearing entirely.
After all, German, French, and other European companies have invested heavily in the project; in any case, it would be a grave political mistake to intervene in the private European gas market.
Governments and monetary authorities are correctly using every policy lever at their disposal to prevent a grave public-health emergency from becoming an even deeper economic, political, and social crisis.
But European governments say that Iran’s latest step constitutes a grave violation of the deal.
It is also a grave error.
The vitriol of politicians such as Trump or the Brexit avatar Nigel Farage poses a grave danger to long-standing institutions.
After all, police in the US enjoy “qualified immunity,” which is why they have long faced little or no accountability for grave injustices committed against African-Americans like Floyd.
First, the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), the signature progressive accomplishment of the last 20 years, has been placed in grave danger.
Moreover, by entrenching a volatile long-term rivalry, it would pose a grave threat to peace.
Following a unanimous decision by Britain’s Supreme Court that Johnson had acted unlawfully in proroguing (suspending) Parliament earlier this month, Johnson’s tenure as Britain’s leader is in grave peril.
The US stated that it would “consider any effort to determine the future of Taiwan by other than peaceful means of grave concern to the United States.”
Taiwan’s leaders appear to understand that such a decision would be a grave mistake.
The incoherence of Trump’s trade and economic policies, with all their potentially grave consequences for the global economy, is a destabilizing byproduct of this disconnect.
Just as a strong and stable democracy in Africa’s most populous country can serve as a powerful example for the region, a political crisis there would have grave consequences that extend well beyond its borders.
In Nigeria, grave internal security challenges are arising from a resurgence of the militant Islamist group Boko Haram, an upsurge in kidnappings throughout the country, and escalating violence in the Middle Belt, as farmers and herders fight over limited resources.
If these countries descend into political crisis, the security, humanitarian, and economic consequences for the entire region will be grave.
Hong Kong’s future as an international financial center is now in grave peril, while resistance by residents determined to defend their freedom will make the city even less stable.
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