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America took almost 15 years to carry out its first drone strike in Pakistan’s sprawling Balochistan province, even though the Afghan Taliban leadership established its command-and-control structure there almost immediately after the US military intervention ousted it from Afghanistan.
A successful national strike last December convinced many that the president no longer commanded a majority among voters.
Smelling blood, business and labor leaders called for a national strike to support the company.
Such anonymity also holds for those who are left untreated in “triage” – the sorting of casualties when natural or man-made disasters strike.
This raises another risk: with major law-enforcement assets deployed in or near Sochi, terrorists might try to strike elsewhere during the Olympics.
She would certainly stoke many enemies who will look to their own brands of fundamentalism to strike back at the US.
Moreover, as was true in Poland, Burma’s opposition leaders must strike a delicate balance: satisfy their impatient supporters (many of whom have suffered mightily under the old regime), while offering those still in power the prospect of a worthwhile future.
Public debt in China is still relatively low; but, as any citizen of Ireland can tell you, it can balloon when banking crises strike.
To give up on diplomacy is to leave the international community with two ugly options: living with a nuclear Iran or carrying out a preventive military strike against Iran’s nuclear installations.
A military strike would likely have worse consequences.
Even if a strike was an operational success, it would only set back Iran’s nuclear program by several years – while giving the regime a new incentive to acquire a nuclear deterrent and build better hidden and defended nuclear facilities.
But his mercurial ways make it plausible that he may find it politically advantageous to strike a serious bargain on the nuclear issue.
Even if May can strike an exit deal, it is impossible to negotiate and ratify a sector-by-sector trade agreement in under two years.
May claims that Brexit will enable Britain to strike better trade deals with non-EU countries, and she is pinning her hopes on a quick deal with Trump’s America.
Thus, China is diversifying its missiles in terms of their strike capabilities and mobility, and formulating innovative anti-access/area-denial asymmetric warfare concepts to close the gap with technologically more advanced adversaries and near competitors – principally the United States, Russia, and Japan.
Now the terrorists strike at Turkey.
In a far-fetched but not implausible scenario, Trump may even strike a deal with China over its territorial claims, disregarding the interests of US allies, from Japan to the Philippines.
We obviously need to strike at the root of the problem, which requires us to redefine the basic principles of the system.
This could invite a devastating preemptive strike from the US.
But, if the US refrains from military action, the results could also be catastrophic, if the North actually does strike.
Even just the threat of such a strike could be destabilizing, if it drives concerned US allies such as South Korea and Japan to increase their military spending and reconsider their non-nuclear postures.
At the same time, having a fully automated section allows production to continue if workers go on strike.
Which balance should European leaders strike?
But this time, the threat is real: during Trump’s watch, North Korea could very well obtain the means to strike the United States with a weapon of mass destruction.
On April 6, the government faced its first nationwide general strike.
Its opponent, the Democratic Progressive Party, wants to strike a more autonomous posture, though whether it would ever really go for anything more substantial than tweaking China’s nose is doubtful.
Moreover, as long as the summit is in play, North Korea need not fear a US military strike.
Moreover, while a preventive strike would delay Iran’s nuclear efforts, it would not stop the regime from rebuilding, and it might also create conditions that cause problems for the regime’s domestic opponents.
The call to strike out for independence is a mirage in the modern world.
Strauss-Kahn’s nomination was also an effective strike in terms of French domestic politics, as it promised to weaken the Socialists’ opposition.
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