Posted by Matt in August 19th, 2008 |
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Russia,
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Baltic States,
Elections,
Fear,
Freedom,
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Russia,
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Ukraine
The spread of freedom and the West standing up to it.
The Russian state’s open hostility, not only toward Georgia but also toward Ukraine and the Baltic states, is, in this sense, partly ideological. Genuine elections have taken place in all these countries; people who have not been preselected by the ruling oligarchy sometimes gain wealth [...]
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Posted by Matt in July 25th, 2008 |
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History,
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Anti-Americanism,
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world-war-II
In Madden’s historically linked world, the defeat of Carthage in 204 B.C. is the mirror image of the D-Day invasion of World war II. The contempt the Greeks had for Romans even after Rome saved them from civil war is a historical analog to the Europeans’ anti-Americanism and arrogance even after the American military bailed [...]
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