The author Fyodor Dostoevsky had a grand vision for the country. Russia, he believed, would lead the West back to Christ and bring about “universal, spiritual reconciliation.” This it could do, he felt, because its people supposedly had a “capability for high synthesis, a gift for universal reconcilability.” The Russian, …
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After two decades and trillions of dollars dedicated to training the Afghan military to stand on its own two feet and prevail in combat against the Taliban and other Islamic insurgencies, the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, was unable to provide a straight answer …
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Magen David Adom, Israel’s emergency service, has reported that around 54 people were injured, with some becoming trapped under the rubble after the collapse. Of the dozens injured, five are in serious condition, and Fire and Rescue Services Commissioner Brig. Gen. Dedi Simchi has reported there are deaths at the …
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CCTV video shows the balcony of a waterfront house jam-packed with people. They scream in terror as the structure suddenly collapses. Nine people were injured, four of them hospitalized, according to TV channel ABC 7. Los Angeles County Fire Department Dispatch Supervisor Melanie Flores said that two people were taken …
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The number of fatalities in the rail overpass disaster has climbed to 15, Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said. The city’s civil protection agency reported that around 70 were injured. Photos from the site show the train cars hanging above the crumbled supports, as rescue teams try to evacuated any …
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The sudden liquidation of the New York-based billionaire Bill Hwang’s Archegos Capital Management ignited a fire sale of more than $20 billion in assets that has left some of the world’s biggest investment banks bearing billions of dollars of losses. According to billionaire investor Mike Novogratz, the collapse of Hwang’s …
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Most people have heard of Gordon Chang’s infamous book ‘The Coming Collapse of China’, which was authored more than 20 years ago. Say no more. The text is not so much a standalone theory as it is a representation of a broader train of thought on China that persists in …
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2020 was a year to forget, but it was also immensely geopolitically significant. The outbreak of Covid-19 was a world-changing event which will profoundly alter the globe. Not least because the political shockwaves it created have brought relations between the United States and China to their lowest ebb in modern …
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The USGS issued a preliminary alert recording the quake as a 7.0 magnitude temblor, but Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD) said it was a 6.6 quake which struck along the Aegean coast. The temblor struck shortly after 1:51pm local time near the Greek island of Samos, with the …
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