The Soviet Union was once a mighty empire, controlling large chunks of land in Europe and Asia, and giving the West a might enemy. And then it all fell apart; the individual states (many of them incorporated by force) wanted their freedom, and Boris Yeltsin wanted his own Russia to rule, and so the Soviet [...]
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The United States has this obsession a certain amount of moral purity among its politicians. They can solicit all sorts of funds from lobbyists who push for all sorts of things (including from the tobacco lobby, for people who want to spend over $200 million to build a bridge for 50 people, and other pork [...] For some time now, the United States led international force in Afghanistan has been the target of a sustained insurrection by the Taleban, no doubt aided by the Al-Qaeda network (right now, it is hard to separate the 2; although the long term aims of the 2 are different). Now, the Taleban was supposedly a [...] |
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