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When the Soviet Union
invaded
Hungary and Czechoslovakia during the Cold War, it undercut the soft power that it had enjoyed in Europe in the aftermath of World War II.
An incomplete list of his crimes includes:using chemical weapons against Iranian troops during the eight-year Iran-Iraq war that he started in 1980;murdering about 5,000 residents of the predominantly Kurdish town of Halabja in March 1988 through the use of chemical weapons, after using these weapons in previous months against Kurdish villages in the vicinity;murdering about 100,000 Kurds during the "Anfal" campaign between February and September 1988, mainly by transporting the victims to a desert area where they were forced into trenches, machine-gunned, and then covered with sand by bulldozers;destroying the ancient civilization of the Marsh Arabs in southeastern Iraq, followed by the forced resettlement and murder of the region's former residents;his actions in Kuwait when Iraq
invaded
in 1990, including the disappearance--still unresolved--of hundreds of Kuwaiti citizens;savage reprisals against the Shiites in southern Iraq in the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War;and persecution of any and all Iraqis suspected of dissent or disloyalty.
If these fears seem unwarranted, it is worth recalling that Siberia was once a part of China’s Middle Kingdom, and that Russia has been
invaded
twice in as many centuries – first by Napoleon, then by Hitler.
Subsequently, Ukraine was
invaded
by Russia, Iraq by the US, and Libya by the US and several of its European partners.
Adolf Hitler minted this strategy when he dismantled Czechoslovakia--supposedly in defense of the Sudeten Germans--and later when he
invaded
my homeland, Poland.
I am angry at the manic dogs of war who have
invaded
Mumbai.
The Bush administration, having proclaimed a war on terror,
invaded
and occupied countries, and yet failed to see that these events were being linked in the eyes of people in the region.
That NATO and the EU may lack the will to change is indicated by the fact that, even after Russian troops
invaded
Crimea and eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region, only part of the West was ready to admit that President Vladimir Putin was intent on restoring Russia as an aggressive global power.
When Nazi Germany
invaded
the western Soviet Union, the Germans kept the collective farms intact, rightly seeing them as the instrument that would allow them to divert Ukrainian food for their own purposes, and starve whom they wished.
Moreover, in the 1980’s, Qaddafi
invaded
Chad and became a major sponsor of international terrorism, effectively ruling out any prospect of attracting the foreign investment needed to maintain competitiveness.
In 1982, Israel
invaded
Lebanon in an attempt to crush militant Palestinians operating there.
Poles are well aware that, 75 years ago this year, France and Britain were parties to security agreements that compelled them to declare war on Germany if it
invaded
Poland.
In September 1939, when Germany invaded, both countries dutifully declared war, but neither fired a shot or helped Poland in any tangible way.
Of all the realms
invaded
by the communications revolution, none is more wide open to transformation than politics.
China’s defense ministry has threatened to teach India a “bitter lesson,” vowing that any conflict would inflict “greater losses” than the Sino-Indian War of 1962, when China
invaded
India during a Himalayan border dispute and inflicted major damage within a few weeks.
When both claims proved false, he argued that America
invaded
Iraq to liberate the Iraqi people.
In the sixteenth century, slavers
invaded
other Caribbean islands to abduct workers and sell them to gold miners on the island of Hispaniola (today’s Dominican Republic and Haiti).
But, just days earlier, the Soviet Union had
invaded
Afghanistan.
More than 16 years after the US
invaded
Afghanistan, its capital Kabul has come under siege, exemplified by the recent terrorist attack on Kabul’s Intercontinental Hotel and the suicide bombing, using an explosives-laden ambulance, in the city center.
Yet leaders in France, who expressed outrage when the US sidestepped the UN and
invaded
Iraq without the international community’s blessing, stunned the world in August when they backed down from their promise to send 2,000 peacekeepers to intervene in southern Lebanon, and instead only committed 200.
Kaiser Wilhelm II
invaded
neutral Belgium to start WWI.
Gamal Abdel Nasser, the first native-born Egyptian to rule Egypt since Alexander the Great
invaded
the country in 332 BC, built a project “by, for, and of the people,” the first truly Egyptian developmental enterprise since the fall of the pharaonic state.
Japan set its sights on Manchuria in 1931 to create a puppet state, and
invaded
China in 1937.
If this respite and refuge is gradually narrowed and
invaded
by the same kind of “products” as those that dominate the mass market, we are condemned to be perpetual captives of the same stunted universe of “practicalities,” the ordinary agglomeration of clichés packaged in advertisements.
With its regional authority apparently threatened by rising pro-European sentiment in Ukraine, Russia
invaded
and annexed Crimea and began supporting separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine, prompting the US and Europe to impose increasingly tough political and economic sanctions.
Bush
invaded
Iraq ostensibly to remove Saddam Hussein’s capacity to use weapons of mass destruction and, in the process, to change the regime.
Consider my country, Iran, which has not
invaded
any country in the past 250 years.
More recently, as more than 80 pupils in South Sudan were taking their annual exams, fighters
invaded
their school and kidnapped them at gunpoint.
KYIV – The new ceasefire agreement for Ukraine was signed in Minsk almost one year to the day after Russian troops – their faces masked, their military insignias removed –
invaded
Crimea.
Under Putin, Russia has
invaded
and occupied parts of Georgia, annexed Crimea from Ukraine, and militarily propped up two sham “republics” in Eastern Ukraine.
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