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Pursued and harried by their enemies, they crossed high mountains, turbulent rivers, and impassable grassland, with Mao steering the course from victory to victory.
Indeed, some of the recent political tumult – including Brexit and Trump’s victory – has been driven partly by excessive inequality.
And yet we already know that Emmanuel Macron’s victory is symbolically significant not just for France, but for Europe generally.
For starters, Macron’s victory represents a break from the populist wave that has swept across Europe.
And while Macron’s victory does not mean that the populist threat has been eliminated, it does show that such forces can be contained.
Yet each side in these conflicts harbors the tragic illusion of achieving an ultimate victory without the need to compromise, if only the US (or some other major power) will fight the war on its behalf.
Your willingness to undergo punishment merely expedites their victory.
Yanukovych’s victory notwithstanding, Ukraine is a country that is becoming more European and gradually moving out of Russia’s orbit in its own chaotic way.
To some extent, that is what Emmanuel Macron has done in France – and it has brought him victory in the first round of the country’s presidential election.
Historians studying the twenty-first century may one day conclude that the “American Century” ended – and the “Asian Century” began – on November 8, 2016, with Trump’s election victory.
“The credit belongs to the man in the arena,” Roosevelt continued, “who spends himself in a worthy cause, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
On the contrary, she has unflinchingly steered the CDU towards the left, because she learned three things from the CDU’s election defeat in 2002 and its narrow victory in 2005: Germans don’t want to go to war, don’t think much of economic reform, and are mostly to the left of the CDU/CSU.
In other words, the secret of Merkel’s election victory was to secure a majority for the center-right in order to pursue, more or less, a center-left policy agenda.
The victory of black and yellow has, moreover, defined the alternative: red, dark red, and green.
But Bush rejected this, and persists in speaking of victory in Iraq – though it is unclear what that now means.
The system created by Generalissimo Francisco Franco following his victory offered workers job security and strong collective-bargaining rights, which helped to maintain social stability in the absence of democracy.
What is stopping them is the belief that the US or some other outside power (such as Russia) will deliver a decisive victory on their behalf.
But Russians who believe that Yanukovych’s retreat from Europe represents a great victory should think again.
Francis Fukuyama famously argued that in the grand global struggle over the future of human political and economic organization, the forces of democracy and liberal capitalism had won a definitive victory.
The victory of Gutierrez, who participated in the failed coup against President Jamil Mahuad in 2000, is a serious blow to speedy approval of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA)--the Bush administration's effort to create a hemispheric trade bloc rivaling the European Union.
But unlike Chavez, who leads one of the world's top oil producers, the need to stabilize an economy closely monitored by international financial markets forced Gutierrez to abandon campaign promises that helped secure his victory.
The roots of the current unrest extend back more than a decade, to former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s first electoral victory in 2001.
Instead, his victory heralded the political rise of the country’s poor, long-silenced rural majority.
Some of Mitt Romney’s advisers seemed taken aback by Obama’s victory: Wasn’t the election supposed to be about economics?
Choosing the right general in that war will not assure victory, but choosing the wrong one surely enhances the chances of failure.
Alternatively, with neither of the larger parties able to declare real victory, they could decide as a compromise to indicate preference for one of the other leaders who had campaigned – perhaps Verhofstadt, the liberal centrist.
Pointing out their violations of the constitution and protesting make sense only to the extent that they bring the opposition closer to electoral victory.
The populist backlash against globalization in the West will not be stilled by Macron’s victory, and could still lead to protectionism, trade wars, and sharp restrictions to migration.
Regardless of Jamie Dimon’s victory in retaining his dual role as CEO and chairman of the board, the more important failure on display was that of the board of directors itself – a problem that affects almost all of the world’s megabanks.
His victory marks a step forward in Latin America’s overall democratization, with positive long-term significance for economic and social development in the region.
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