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While it is conceivable that the European project could survive without Britain, a united Europe without France is unthinkable.
Ten-year interest rates in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany have all been hovering around the once unthinkable 1.5% mark.
This arrangement is unthinkable without an extremely robust counterpart – for example, prior scrutiny of national budgets.
When I joined the UN, it was almost unthinkable for the organization to take sides between democracy and dictatorship, or to seek to intervene in members’ internal affairs.
Economic integration has advanced so far that a return to the national rivalries that twice led the continent into suicidal warfare is unthinkable.
Even as the Holocaust passes from memory into history, it is unthinkable that a German political leader would indulge such anti-Semitism among his or her supporters.
As a result, long-term adversaries like France and Germany were reconciled within a region-wide project – first a coal and steel community, which expanded to become the European Economic Community and, ultimately, the European Union – that integrated the continent politically and economically to such an extent that violent conflict was rendered unthinkable.
South America is becoming a region where war is unthinkable – what the political scientist Karl Deutsch once called a “security community.”
True, war in Europe is now mostly unthinkable, with much wealth created.
Instead, he invented a plan for the gradual development of the institutions that evolved into the European Union, which has helped make such a war unthinkable.
You can add this to the list of previously unthinkable things that we have witnessed lately.
In Europe, once torn apart by war, armed conflict among EU member states is now almost unthinkable.
The French DisconnectionPARIS – Dire conditions can permit what was once unthinkable to push its way into public debate.
There are two reasons why, until now, the second option – leaving the monetary union – has been unthinkable.
As part of the Justice Initiative study, those who request information from Romania’s government were willingly supplied with the kind of information that would have been unthinkable to release just a few short years ago.
Today, scenes that would have been unthinkable in Hong Kong in 1997 – mass anti-China demonstrations, the election of anti-CCP radicals to the city’s legislature, open calls for independence – have become routine.
The unthinkable can happen – as it did in the United Kingdom, with the Brexit vote, and as it may in France, if the far-right Marine Le Pen wins the presidency.
Hence, war initiated by the North, while not unthinkable, seems unlikely.
Of course, such a rebalancing is unthinkable today, for both political and economic reasons.
If the European Union has done one thing, it is to make war between France and Germany unthinkable.
In the age of Donald Trump and Brexit, that outcome is far from unthinkable.
They have discovered and used freedom of expression in a way that, not so long ago, would have been deemed unthinkable.
For example, the recent ceasefire between the government and Karen rebels exemplifies progress that was simply unthinkable only one year ago.
The “PIIGS” (Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece, and Spain) greatly benefited from the euro, thanks not only to the removal of currency-related trade barriers, but also because their interest rates suddenly fell to levels unthinkable in pre-euro times.
But populist victories in 2016 – particularly the Brexit vote in the United Kingdom and the election of Donald Trump as US president – have shown that the unthinkable can happen.
The Wages of Wage FearLONDON – If all else fails, try the previously unthinkable.
Why should what worked in Northern Ireland – indeed, what was pressed on Britain by the United States – be unthinkable in the Middle East?
It is still difficult to think the unthinkable, let alone work out the details of it, but any rational player must now consider the possibility.
Those elections would have been unthinkable in Nazi Germany.
Increased interdependence would make conflict unthinkable.
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