waging peace, the centennial edition

Mar 01, 2014 10:24

And indeed, the United States will stand with the international community in affirming that there will be costs for any military intervention in Ukraine.
-Barack Hussein Obama, 28 February 2014On the same date, June 23, 1915, he wrote to his life-long friend Owen Wister ( Read more... )

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unnecessary vsopvs March 1 2014, 18:40:27 UTC

In January 1865, Milyutin wrote to the Asiatic Department: 'It is unnecessary for us to beg the forgiveness of ministers of the English crown for each advance that we make. They do not hasten to confer with us when they conquer whole kingdoms and occupy foreign cities and islands, nor do we ask them to justify what they do.' - pg. 312, The Great Game

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