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Yet, with all of these exciting technologies, it is extremely difficult to strike a balance between managing “tail risk” – a very small risk of a very large disaster – and supporting innovation.
But Africa would starve if we went on strike.”
What they were attempting was no mere strike, however, but amounted to nothing less than a failed coup.
The blogger, Zhao Jing, had been reporting on a strike by journalists at The Beijing News that followed the dismissal of the newspaper’s independent-minded editor.
The relevant local laws would therefore seem to be those of the US, and Zhao Jing’s discussion of the Beijing journalists’ strike does not violate any of them.
TheNew York Times, for example, is free to publish its report on the strike, even though it operates a Web site that anyone with unfettered Internet access can read.
America’s allies, in turn, must be prepared to close ranks with it on both the outlines of a deal and the willingness to strike militarily.
The West’s choices attempted to strike a balance between too much and too little.
But, in order to preserve investors’ confidence, some eurozone countries must strike a difficult balance between austerity and overkill, which would have been facilitated had the European Council issued a clear statement that letting automatic stabilizers work, while remaining on track with structural budget targets, fully complies with European Union obligations.
As many experts warn, the first time a drone strike kills a woman or child, a video of the scene and the funeral will be posted for the Muslim world to see.
According to Goldberg, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton privately complained that “if you say that you are going to strike, you have to strike.”
In Australia, where freedom of expression is not given explicit constitutional protection, courts are much more likely to respect the right of democratically elected governments to strike the proper balance.
But Ukraine's born-again democracy obliges us to assume a more exposed role in a complex world: to wonder where and in what sort of Europe Ukraine fits; what balance it should strike between Russia and Europe; and how it should find the self-assurance needed to play its full part in world affairs.
They assert that after “Brexit”, the UK could quickly negotiate a bespoke agreement with the EU that offers all the benefits of free trade without the costs of EU membership; strike better trade deals with other countries; and reap huge benefits from scrapping burdensome EU regulations.
Brexit supporters claim that Britain could strike its own special deal, cherry picking the provisions it likes.
During the first Gulf War in 1991, when Iraq fired 39 Scud missiles at Israeli civilian targets and US forces failed to stop the Iraqi attacks, Israel was set to strike Iraqi targets, which would have split the US-Arab anti-Iraq coalition.
And storm surges now ride on these elevated sea levels, amplifying flooding losses where they strike.
Likewise, the government has reduced subsidies on diesel and cooking gas in the face of vociferous opposition, including a one-day strike that shut down the country.
More importantly, India has a decisive edge with 390 high performance modern (1980-90s acquisitions) all-weather combat aircraft (40 Sukhoi-30, 50 Mirage-2000 multi-role combat aircraft, 70 air superiority MiG-29, and 110 Jaguars and 120 MiG-27 strike aircraft) compared to Pakistan's 30-odd F-16 multi-role combat aircraft.
Some of Kennedy’s advisers urged an air strike and invasion to destroy the missiles.
And yet the US did not preemptively attack Soviet missile sites, which were relatively vulnerable, because the risk that even one or two of the Soviet missiles would be fired at an American city was enough to deter a first strike.
Obama’s effort to strike a Faustian bargain with the Afghan Taliban, whose top leaders enjoy sanctuary in Pakistan, indicates that he is more interested in confining terrorism to the Middle East than defeating it – even if it means leaving India to bear the brunt of terrorist activity.
Thus, the “axis of evil” and the “pre-emptive strike.”
Doing so could strike a symbolic blow against the underlying malaise of post-crisis economic life.
The danger is that such a strike might not achieve all of its objectives and trigger either a conventional military attack on South Korea (where nearly 30,000 US troops are based) or even a nuclear attack from the North.
This would be a classic pre-emptive strike.
Ellsberg, who was advising the US government on its secret nuclear-war plans, had discovered a document that contained an official estimate of the death toll in a preemptive “first strike” on China and the Soviet Union: approximately 300 million in those countries, and double that globally.
Turkey is also actively involved in NATO’s ongoing deterrence review, which aims to strike a balance between the Alliance’s nuclear and conventional capacities, and is also set to clarify the role of missile defense in this context.
Even if the objective was to strike a Ukrainian transport aircraft, the act likely constitutes a war crime.
If, as seems likely, these basic steps were not taken, even an accidental strike on MH17 would constitute a war crime.
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