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Her portfolio will be one of the most important as the country begins rebuilding after nearly 14 years of civil war.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
1 June 2025 -
The civil war that began in 2011 also displaced half the country’s pre-war population of 23 million people.—
Ghaith Alsayed,
Christian Science Monitor,
30 May 2025
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Orson Welles’s 1955 cold war thriller Mr. Arkadin is the key to Wes Anderson’s psychological puzzle The Phoenician Scheme.—
Armond White,
National Review,
30 May 2025
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The outcome of the Geneva talks was a temporary de-escalation of a wide-ranging cold war that is in fact much bigger than trade.—
John Feng,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 May 2025
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That term was popularized between the two world wars and served as the name of the powerful populist movement to preserve U.S. isolationism and promote our diplomatic distance from the rest of the world.—
Arthur I. Cyr,
Chicago Tribune,
20 May 2025
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This principle has remained intact through two world wars, civil rights struggles, and modern immigration waves.—
Andy J. Semotiuk,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2025
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In 1992, the government pressured Muslim clerics to declare a holy war against Nuba who opposed the regime.—
Nicolas Niarchos,
New Yorker,
19 May 2025
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While Tedesco calls for a holy war in response to the attack, Benitez takes a different approach, declaring that violence should not be met with more violence.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
22 Apr. 2025
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In contrast, China has made targeted investments intended to give it an advantage in a quick, limited war, while keeping its overall defense spending relatively modest: Beijing’s defense spending has risen from five percent of U.S. levels in 1995 to 32 percent in 2017.—
Oriana Skylar Mastro,
Foreign Affairs,
20 May 2025
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And as always, there’s no guarantee that a limited war would stay limited.—
Joshua Keating,
Vox,
7 Dec. 2018
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