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Friday, 05 November 2021

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The New Nuclear Arms Race

The American Spectator 05 Nov 2021

surrendering its nuclear superiority and enabling the Soviet Union to achieve a theoretical “first-strike” capability that if successful would confront an American president with the choice of suicide or surrender ... the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War.

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US-China ties will be tense, but not to the point of war

Asiatimes 05 Nov 2021

The Soviet Union and China were at loggerheads largely over border disputes among other issues ... The late president Richard Nixon traveled to China seeking rapprochement to counter the Soviet Union in 1972 ... The implosion of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, however, changed the US foreign-policy calculus and its national interests.

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Serge Schmemann: The mystery of ‘Havana Syndrome’

Pioneer Press 05 Nov 2021

A long time ago, soon after I arrived in the Soviet Union as a young wire-service reporter and became acutely aware that I was being followed, my eye began to twitch ... in my years in the Soviet Union to being tailed or assuming that everything I said was being recorded somewhere.

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Trudy Rubin: Top Pentagon general: ‘We are witnessing one of the largest shifts in geopolitical ...

Finger Lakes Times 05 Nov 2021

WASHINGTON — The world is changing faster than our sluggish political leaders — let alone the public — can manage ... The Soviet Union was a self-isolating country with lousy geography and a failing economy, whose power rested on a large arsenal of nuclear weapons and its energy supplies ... A tired Soviet Union was not prepared to use them ... ___. .

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Dutch top court rules on $50 billion Yukos oil row with Russia

Urdu Point 05 Nov 2021

"We look forward to the ruling, confident in the outcome," Jonathan Hill, a spokesman for the former Yukos shareholders, told AFP ... Yukos was Russia's biggest oil firm, one of a number of companies formed as the Soviet Union crumbled in the 1990s when businessmen like Khodorkovsky scooped up former Soviet assets at knock-down prices ... ....

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A nuclear-powered shower? Russia tests a climate innovationNuclear-powered residential heating is distinct from running space ...

Deccan Herald 05 Nov 2021

Still, some experts are concerned about the potential risks, pointing to the many spills and accidents on Soviet and Russian submarines and icebreakers that used similar small reactors ... The Soviet Union considered detonating atomic bombs to produce open-pit mines and dig irrigation canals.

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Would the US help us if we were invaded by aliens…or a virus?

China Daily 05 Nov 2021

Friedman cited an essay by researcher Robert Litwak who said former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was once approached by former US president Ronald Reagan at a summit meeting and asked ... In that version, Reagan did refer to an alien invasion of the US, but it was an invasion of the whole planet that united the Soviet Union and US ... .

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RPT - Russian Church Abroad Commemorates 'Law of God' Book Author Archpriest Slobodskoy

Urdu Point 05 Nov 2021

A major event is also scheduled on November 6 - the date when the Russian Orthodox Church celebrates St. Demetrius of Thessaloniki ... "That was something my father always remembered," Alexei Slobodskoy said ... "I think that my father's book had a huge impact on the preservation and re-birth of Christianity in Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union ... ....

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Three vicious cycles

Ekathimerini 05 Nov 2021

Fast forward to the present ... It is a paradoxical reaction, given our allergy to the “protector powers,” and, at the same time, a concession of weakness ... To paraphrase former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger’s assessment of the Soviet Union, Ankara’s pursuit of absolute security is creating absolute insecurity for its neighbors ... .

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Selected Articles: An Australian Horror Story

GlobalResearch 05 Nov 2021

Vaxx Passports. “When You Know Everything About Your Government, that’s Democracy ... Nazi Germany’s “Operation Barbarossa” against the Soviet Union, an Overview ... The group is made up of 19 states and the European Union (EU) representing a large majority of the world’s gross domestic product, the total sum of goods and services produced within a society.

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John Stossel: Military spending

Union Leader 05 Nov 2021

WE’RE OUT of Afghanistan. Good. We should have gotten out before. Our involvement there was America’s longest war, longer than the Civil War, World War I and World War II combined. We accomplished little good and plenty of bad ... Many Americans believe the military and our use of military force shrank after WWII and after the Soviet Union collapsed ... No.

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'We have enough land for a trillion trees'

RNZ 05 Nov 2021

Award-winning British science journalist Fred Pearce has written about the environment and climate change for 40 years but remains optimistic ... Listen to the full interview duration 25′ .34″ Add to playlistPlaylist ... “In Eastern Europe where the old collective farms disappeared after the collapse of the Soviet Union, people again just walked away ... ....

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Call of Duty: Vanguard - Single-Player Campaign Review

IGN Insider 05 Nov 2021

Note. This review covers the single-player campaign of Call of Duty. Vanguard. For our thoughts on the other two modes, check our our Call of Duty. Vanguard Multiplayer review in progress and our Call of Duty. Vanguard Zombies review in progress. Call of Duty ... Britain, the Soviet Union, Australia, and the USA ... Black Ops Cold War's Single-Player Campaign ... 7.

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Henry Kissinger warns that gulf of ignorance between China and U.S. over A.I. technology risks ...

The Daily Mail 05 Nov 2021

He compared the threat with the build-up to World War One when an apparently unrelated incident - the assassination of Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand - triggered a global conflict ... and the Soviet Union said the current level of competition between Washington and China had 'no precedent in history.' ... officials that Washington was losing ground ... .

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Four decades of Resistance against global arrogance

Press TV 05 Nov 2021

Iran-America relations were once famous. But as they turned sour over 40 years ago, the non-relations became as famous and has stuck till today ... Resistance against global arrogance ... Obama’s memoirs ... And while the Soviet Union merged nations into its ideological block, the US indirectly colonized them with the promise of sharing in economic prosperity.