Imagining Workable Solutions Why don’t you meet Osama bin Laden, invite him to Brussels or to the White House and engage in talks, ask him what he wants and give it to him so he leaves you in peace? You find it possible to set some limitations in your dealings with these bastards, so why […]
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The Unforeseen Consequences of War “’Are you okay, man?’ ‘Yeah, I’m good.’ It’s a lie. I wonder if I will ever be good again.” –David Bellavia Multiple consequences stem from Russia’s appointment of an autonomous Chechen leader. This, coupled with Moscow’s lack of recognition of the Chechen people’s only true representative, indirectly led to the
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Chechnya’s Geopolitical Landscape We’ll follow terrorists everywhere. We will corner the bandits in the toilet and wipe them out. –Vladimir Putin In November of 1991, soon after the dissipation of the Soviet Union, Chechnya declared their independence from Russia. Consequently, in 1994, Boris Yeltsin sent troops into Chechnya, attempting to maintain access to oil pipelines
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The white door with peeling paint closed in my face as my mother and aunt retreated into the room. I was caught off guard by my banishment. As an only child, visiting my aunts and uncles, who had dozens of children, was always fun for me. Lots of playmates and lots of people to blame
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Early in the morning of February 28th, 2015 Moscow time, unknown assailants gunned down Boris Nemtsov – physicist and strong supporter of liberal democratic reforms – on a popular bridge just down the hill from the Kremlin and Red Square. This is the same bridge where, in 1993, Boris Yeltsin positioned tanks in an attempt
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What else do we have to understand about Ferguson, the NYPD, and Trevon Martin? Look at it this way. There’s a commercial that consists of videos of different species of animals frolicking together. These are an Internet staple. Cats with birds, dogs with fish, lions with gazelles, and countless other unusual pairings from YouTube fill
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