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We do not have any illusions or high expectations, but a NATO that continues to expand without having the capabilities to meet the obligations to defend an enlarged treaty area runs the risk of becoming a hollow alliance.
There should be no illusions about this.
In short, the large states still have illusions, encouraged by their political elites, about what the state can do to guide economic development.
Three illusions are responsible for the German public’s growing aversion to European integration – and for many Germans’ failure to understand that Germany has the most to lose from the euro’s collapse.
Against this background, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s third government, once it is formed, must rid the country of the illusions that are preventing it from playing a proactive and constructive role in ensuring that Europe functions as a union.
They held no illusions that their country was a democracy.
European illusions about Asia will no longer be directed at Russia, which, apart from its natural resources, will simply have nothing to offer.
He, however, belongs to that half of the excluded who understand what is happening to them and who have no illusions.
But his strategy – “renegotiation” of EU membership, followed by a British referendum on the new agreement – is the product of two illusions: first, that he can ensure a positive outcome, and, second, that the EU is able and willing to give him the concessions that he wants.
Having experienced what a real socialism was all about, I could only disappoint them, shattering their illusions.
When I do, however, I only succeed (as before) in destroying illusions; ime the naive belief that a solution to the plight of women had been found in the now discarded socialist regimes.
Imprisonment completed the evolution of the March combatants and left them free of illusions.
It is important that these plans be seen as domestically devised (though voters will have no illusions about the external and market pressures that have forced their governments to act).
The economic crisis destroyed illusions of sustained energy-fueled growth through at least 2020, and the hubris that went with it.
The former remains wedded to its phantom imperial illusions about a “zone of privileged interests” extending far beyond Russia’s borders, while the latter, starting with Kadyrov, rule as independent autocrats happy to accept handouts from the Russian state budget.
It voices no illusions about its admission to NATO anytime soon.
Let us have no illusions: no “conditions” imposed from outside will bring about the “China we deserve” in the way, after World War II, we got the “Germany we deserved” through a process of integration and reconciliation.
Citizens, facing unpaid salaries, frozen bank accounts and unemployment of 20%, are suffering the consequences of two grand economic illusions.
In the endgame, the consequences of a policy based on illusions reared their ugly heads.
Now is the time to cut free of these two illusions.
But this time Argentina will not travel under the illusions fostered by economic scribblers, both dead and alive.
Peace will be won by the moderate voices around the world that demand an end to senseless violence and to the tragic illusions of those who believe in a “final victory” over their foes.
It is something that exists only in your illusions.
The commission that prepared the CER report comprised sensible British and European economic thinkers and former policymakers with no illusions about how the EU really works.
There, it fed the Churchillian illusions of many a “war president” who dreamed of going down in history as freedom’s heroic defender.
Syria’s Final CountdownTEL AVIV – A series of crucial defeats of the Syrian army has laid to rest any illusions that the government in Damascus is in control of its country.
But most participants hold few illusions about the efficacy of their protest.
And Europe must shed its illusions about the impact of soft power and the willingness of emerging powers to be house-trained as “responsible stakeholders” in a Western-designed international system.
According to Stanzel, who previously served as Germany’s ambassador in Beijing, “Merkel has no illusions about China, but she sees it as a partner on climate, trade, and the politics of order.”
The Struggle for Middle East MasteryBERLIN – The last illusions about what was called, until recently, the “Arab Spring” may have vanished.
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