Word: capitulationism
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This atavistic trend is a direct result of the Soviet capitulation in the cold war. The core of communism was a strong center: it was from there that the orders and the troops came. A single ruler could intimidate or punish the farthest corner of his domain. The Yugoslavs used...
Pawar's unexpected capitulation forestalled a looming power struggle, but the Congress Party's problems are far from over. Incomplete returns from the interrupted parliamentary election indicate that while the party will return to power after a 19-month hiatus, its hold on the lower house's 545 seats will...
The POWs' rapid capitulation only heightened concern about their treatment. These men, after all, have been schooled in the art of surviving in captivity. Since the early 1970s, each of the armed forces has been running men and women through a program called SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape). The...
If clarity has been assured, only tragedy remains. Both sides, it seems, are ready for war because neither is willing to suffer a supposedly worse fate -- the humiliation that capitulation, or its perception, implies.
They run from total capitulation to bloody carnage. No one knows what course he will choose.