Threat
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Its senior leadership has said nothing about the serious
threat
posed by the actions of the US or of other major players.
China’s reprisals were not launched against the US, which deployed the system to defend against North Korea’s emerging missile
threat
and has the heft to hit back hard.
After all, at first blush, such flows do not seem to be as powerful or as urgent a
threat
to people’s wellbeing as, say, not having enough food to survive.
The sanctions imposed on Iran are starting to weigh heavily on its economy, and a settlement to the dispute is a prerequisite for any effort by the two countries to cooperate on a peace deal in Syria or to address the
threat
posed by the Islamic State.
The result is the emergence of the Islamic State, carrying with it the
threat
of extermination of the country’s minorities, including Christians and Alawites.
And the greatest existential
threat
humanity faces would be realized.
Exports are yet to begin, but the
threat
of the resource curse is already present.
Each time, radical improvements in technology made the
threat
evaporate.
At the same time, the nuclear
threat
is not the most immediate danger.
The bigger
threat
today is actual combat, for, the day after North Korea’s nuclear test, South Korea announced its full participation in the US-led Proliferation Strategic Initiative, which seeks to intercept ships that may be involved in illegally transporting nuclear technology.
Trump promises that Kim “will truly regret it” and “regret it fast” if he follows through on that threat, or issues another.
But HIV/AIDS remains a daily
threat
to millions, stunts development, and destroys far too many lives.
The
threat
of Salafi extremism in Gaza is far from over.
And only cooperation can enable humanity to face up to urgent planetary challenges, including the destruction of biodiversity, the poisoning of the oceans, and the
threat
posed by global warming to the world’s food supply, vast drylands, and heavily populated coastal regions.
Suddenly, open trade, long championed by the US, looks like a dire
threat
to its continued dominance.
Doing so would unite the world against US arrogance and the new US military
threat.
The rise of many regional powers is not a
threat
to the US, but an opportunity for a new era of prosperity and constructive problem solving.
Outright deflation would be an even more dangerous
threat.
The possibility that non-state actors could acquire nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction poses an especially grave new
threat.
And Turkey views the PKK as an existential threat, and regards the PYD as its Syrian lethal appendage.
And we understood that we faced the
threat
of a jobless recovery, owing to cyclical factors, rather than to structural changes.
Yet we latter-day Easter Islanders seem unaware of this existential threat, preferring to build statues rather than sustainable systems for survival.
The greatest
threat
to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.
That is why trade unionists were the first through the gates of Dachau, and why Poland’s Solidarity movement posed an existential
threat
to Communist power throughout the former Soviet bloc.
There is no clearer example of this than the TPP, which almost certainly constitutes the single biggest
threat
to the preservation – or creation – of any signatory country’s middle class.
After all, NATO expansion was essentially a political and strategic act, not a military one, given the absence of any significant
threat
against the countries of Western and Central Europe.
In the absence of the Soviet threat, American power is essentially untrammeled.
And, to Europe’s immediate south, across the Mediterranean, new risks are emerging in the vastness of North Africa and the Sahara, including the
threat
of an Al Qaeda state in northern Mali.
Still, a majority of French citizens remain deeply concerned about the
threat
of terrorism not just from abroad, but from people living in France, often with French citizenship.
In the two years since the ISIS attacks in Paris, France has readied itself to face the terrorist
threat.
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