At first glance, the world economy looks reassuringly resilient. America has boomed even as its trade war with China has escalated. Germany has withstood the loss of Russian gas supplies without suffering an economic disaster. War in the Middle East has brought no oil shock. Missile-firing Houthi rebels have barely touched the global flow of goods
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Delivered by comrade V.M.Molotov, Chairman of Council of People's Commissars and People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs, at Sitting of the Sixth Session of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on March 29, 1940Comrades deputies
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Why mandatory military service makes sense for some countries but not othersMANDATORY MILITARY service is under discussion once more in Europe. The reasons? The possibility of Ukraine’s defeat looms large, as does the threat of a future president Donald Trump abandoning nato. Boris Pistorius, Germany’s defence minister, says that Europe must be
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