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Only a second victory over Yanukovych can secure a future of freedom and hope for Ukraine’s people.
The New and Not Improved NAFTACAMBRIDGE – US President Donald Trump acts as if he has pulled off a smashing victory by replacing the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) – supposedly “the worst trade deal ever” – with the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement.
Trump cannot truthfully claim a victory relative to the status quo he inherited – even to his mercantilist supporters.
His election victory relied heavily on his plans to reform the labor market and to promote work and innovation.
The conflict would likely drag on, given that the definition of victory in this scenario is ambiguous.
Is a settlement with Iran’s leaders feasible, or is regime change crucial to an American victory?
Given these precedents, perhaps Asian policymakers should consider the merits of doing away with “cohabitation” and adopting systems where electoral victory translates into real power.
Netanyahu’s apology to Turkey for the commando raid on a Gaza-bound Turkish ship in 2010 was a major diplomatic victory for Obama.
At the time of the Yugoslav war, the West not only occupied the moral high ground, but was also viewed as invincible, owing to its Cold War victory.
When Blair called for new elections, victory was taken for granted.
The Chechens hope that adopting a constitution, followed by the election of a Chechen president, will spare them the horrors of purge and arrests that would invariably have followed had either side secured a military victory.
Unwittingly, President Vladimir Putin has opted for an all-or-nothing victory over the oil oligarch.
For Trump, Putin’s likely intrusions in the 2016 presidential election may well have contributed to his victory, even as they have also done considerable damage to his presidency.
The supposed threat to Russia today was underscored for the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, with billboards springing up across Moscow to remind Russians of the sacrifices that victory required.
A common sight in Russia is a shiny German-made car with a bumper sticker recalling the glories of World War II: “On to Berlin” or “Thank you, grandfather, for the victory, and grandmother for the tough bullets.”
Aside from Donald Trump’s victory in the United States’ presidential election, some of the European Union’s weaknesses were fully revealed, with the United Kingdom’s vote to leave casting the bloc in a particularly harsh light.
Violence in Thailand’s predominantly Muslim south seemed to dent his ambitions last year, but his Thai Rak Thai (TRT) party’s landslide victory last February gave his bid for regional leadership a new lease on life.
Since its victory in the Cold War, America’s hegemony in the Middle East has been a story of frustration and unrewarded investment of blood, sweat, and treasure.
Indeed, although it is difficult to say how large an impact the launch had on the result in Japan, the Liberal Democratic Party (of which I am a member, serving as Deputy Chair of the election campaign) won a landslide victory.
Although Park Geun-hye’s victory in South Korea, where she became the country’s first-ever female president, followed a campaign mainly focused on domestic economic issues, North Korea’s missile-guided brinkmanship probably shifted many undecided voters to the security-minded Park’s camp.
And he understood that, sometimes, a compromise can be superior to trying for total victory.
Neither side achieved total victory, but neither risked total destruction, either.
Investors’ apparent optimism following the AKP’s victory recalls Einstein’s definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome.
Emmanuel Macron, the NovelPARIS – Emmanuel Macron’s victory in the French presidential election could be mistaken for the plot of a novel that no publisher would accept.
Well before the detailed history of this campaign – disastrous and magnificent, senseless and miraculous – is written, France’s new president will have to confront the challenges posed by circumstances of his victory.
And he will have to resist those of his supporters who, in the heady glow of victory, would have him be both demiurge and thaumaturge.
In the short term, the Europeans are hoping that their proposed measures will allow Trump to declare victory while remaining in the deal.
It is also likely that Putin sought to show the world a kinder, gentler face in an effort to consolidate victory in his tug of war with the European Union over Ukraine.
Traditionally, analysts assumed that victory went to the side with the better army or the larger force; in an information age, the outcome is also influenced by who has the better story.
But, according to the vote counts released by the government after a suspicious month-long delay, the MDC’s margin of victory – 48% to 43% – fell short of the 50% required to avoid a run-off election.
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