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Congo’s Infinite WarHARARE – Some time ago, the head of the United Nations refugee agency, Antonio Guterres, said of the Democratic Republic of Congo: “Nobody in the outside world feels threatened, and so the international community is not really paying attention.”
Finally, bear in mind that the case coincided with the crises in Ukraine and elsewhere, with the major US enforcement action being financial and economic sanctions on Russia, the largest of which are still being threatened.
The emphasis should be on building coalitions among the relatively moderate states that are threatened by radical Islamist forces, and on working hard to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons – a goal that is in the interests of many in the region.
In Europe, countries have threatened to crash out of the eurozone unless the European Central Bank or other European governments underwrite their unsustainable debt; and European policymakers have threatened to cut off support to certain countries unless they implement reforms.
In this game, each side believes that its threatened action would be so damaging that the other side must swerve.
Consider the polar bear, threatened with extinction in the wild by climate change.
Iran offers official support to terrorists and its president has threatened publicly to destroy Israel.
Liberal values, however, are threatened as thoroughly by state incapacity as by despotic power.
During the campaign, Trump threatened to retaliate against China for “raping” America on trade, to impose massive tariffs on Chinese imports, and to label China a currency manipulator on “day one.”
For example, Abe threatened to rescind the official apologies issued by former leaders or officials for abuses and atrocities committed by Japan’s army during WWII, and stated his intention to visit the controversial Yasukuni Shrine, which honors not only Japan’s war dead, but also many of its war criminals.
Soon thereafter, North Korea called off planned test launches of missiles that it had threatened to aim at the waters around the US territory of Guam.
Trump’s threatened trade war with China is a case in point.
This was true even during the negotiating push, when a debate over the sanctions against Iran’s trade in conventional arms and ballistic missiles threatened to open a breach between the partners.
So they threatened to protest the film everywhere it was shown – threats that forced the Bollywood star and producer to drop the second word, renaming the film simply “Billu.”
In France, Prime Minister Manuel Valls threatened to ignore the EU’s posted-workers directive unless it was modified to prevent employers from hiring workers from other EU countries on worse terms than locals.
And while the Commission threatened Spain and Portugal with fines for their borrowing overruns, it ultimately pulled back.
It also champions an increased program of action for the poor and environmentally threatened island economies of the Pacific region.
No news story that day discussed economic fundamentals or gave a clear indication of the cause of the decline, relying instead on sensational prose – “the house that Jack built threatened to topple over” and “traders were quaking in their boots.”
The effect however, has not been a domino-like democratization; instead we are threatened with a domino effect of descent into chaos.
What’s more, it is threatened by a de-facto anti-Iranian coalition of all other regional powers, united by their fear of Iranian ascendancy.
The Scottish National Party has threatened to hold a second independence referendum if British voters decide to leave the EU.
(Japan's Finance Minister had threatened to commit hara-kiri if the revaluation rate was set at 17%.)
Maybe it is simply in their genes to behave as brutes, lashing out recklessly when wounded or threatened.
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.
When a grand coalition is threatened, its members tend to panic.
But it is precisely this reasoning that is threatened by what Hwang and his team claimed to have achieved.
In just a few 140-character messages, Swaraj denounced the company and threatened to cancel its employees’ visas and refuse visas to its executives in the future.
Those opponents, on both the right and the left, are focusing on the everyday living conditions of European citizens – those who feel threatened by migrants and those who are suffering as a result of austerity.
He has threatened to impose a 50% tariff on goods from China, Mexico, and other US trade partners, but no such measures have materialized.
But the current rules-based international system, which has been decades in the making, remains most seriously threatened by the civil war in Syria.
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