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Many of these shocks constituted events that had previously been considered unthinkable.
Considered unthinkable just a short time ago, the probability that one or more euro members will drop out is now well above 50%.
In both Greece and Japan, excessive debts will be reduced by means previously regarded as unthinkable.
Until recently, that might have been unthinkable, so the new borrowers’ initial bond issue should be viewed as a sign of great investor confidence.
For many observers, populism is unthinkable without a strong, direct bond between an anti-establishment leader and citizens who feel neglected by mainstream political parties.
Naturally, politicians are reluctant to face up to choices between the unacceptable (permanent stagnation), the unthinkable (leaving the euro), and the hard-to-do (reform).
The hard-to-do is preferable to the unacceptable and the unthinkable.
A conflict that began in Europe could no longer develop into a world war – not least because much of Europe is connected through the European Union, which, despite its current unpopularity, makes war among its members unthinkable.
Much of this would have been unthinkable until a few months ago.
But such a rapport between the mercurial American reality-TV star and the austere British prime minister is almost unthinkable.
Such a statement would have been unthinkable in the years before the sub-prime mortgage meltdown.
Instead of thinking what Ahtisaari deemed unthinkable, a partition of Kosovo with a small part of the north going to Serbia and the rest linked to the Kosovars ethnic brethren in Albania or a separate state, the US plans to act without the UN’s blessing, arguing that only an independent Kosovo will bring stability to the Western Balkans.
When it comes to news media, print or broadcast, censorship is utterly unacceptable, even unthinkable.
Just as it is impossible that half a room be forever warm and the other cold, it is unthinkable that two different Europes can exist next to each other without detriment, and the stable and more prosperous half would pay the higher price.
This is not the most likely scenario, but it is not unthinkable.
The latter option, once unthinkable, is possible because Berlusconi is not running the type of inflammatory electoral campaign that he has in the past.
The Arab revolts, unthinkable a year ago, now challenge a regional order that has prevailed for more than a half-century.
As a result, Italy has started implementing labor, pension, and administrative reforms that were unthinkable in the past.
The unthinkable can happen.
In the case of Kosovo, after the Milosevic regime’s brutal behavior in the 1990’s – including repression, massive human rights violations, and large-scale expulsions of Kosovo Albanians – prompted NATO to intervene and the UN to take over the country’s administration, return to Serbian rule became unthinkable.
Only a unified EU position, combined with the knowledge that EU accession for Serbia is unthinkable as long as this conflict has not been fully resolved, may over time lead to a change of attitude on the part of both ordinary Serbs and their government.
The Middle East remains another source of serious instability, with tensions in the Gulf having intensified to the point that hostilities between Iran and Saudi Arabia and/or turmoil within Saudi Arabia are not unthinkable.
In short, what was once standard has become almost unthinkable, and the exceptional has become the norm.
And it must do so while better protecting the long-term unemployed, many of whom bear little responsibility for their current, once unthinkable, and unfortunately long-lasting predicament.
One central concern is that, unlike Europe’s bloody wars of the first half of the twentieth century, which made war there unthinkable today, the wars in Asia in the second half of the twentieth century only accentuated bitter rivalries.
Deviant individuals and groups exist in all human societies, and they are now empowered in ways that were once unthinkable.
On the contrary, it means taking care not to exclude any significant advocate or useful tool in reducing the risk of the unthinkable becoming reality.
The unthinkable has occurred: an American president defending the use of torture, using technicalities in interpreting the Geneva Conventions and ignoring the Convention on Torture, which forbids it under any circumstances.
For mainstream French politicians, renouncing the European project to buy the time required to restore competitiveness is as unthinkable as is the logical alternative: an all-out push for full European political union.
The EU played a central role in reaching the recent nuclear agreement with Iran; brokered a previously unthinkable deal between Serbia and Kosovo (principally by dangling the carrot of EU membership before both countries); and has led the way in responding to Russian aggression in Ukraine with crippling economic sanctions.
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