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...come to the point where it is not the lone superpower in the world and it is actually first among others," says Jay Nelson, the lead war game designer for one of the regional crisis panels. An additional complication, he adds, is that "The near peers [like China and Russia] that we have trying to discredit the legitimacy of the United States." (Check out a story about the threat of the Chinese navy...
...agencies including the U.S. State Department, Special Operations forces (which combines units from all the servies), the intelligence community and key U.S. allies around the world. In fact, military officers from a host of countries Australia, Germany, and the U.K. attended the wargames as well. (Read a story about Russia's arms build...
...various forms of Holocaust-denier legislation that exists in Austria, Germany, Belgium and France. But critics point out that the law banning denial of the Holocaust is designed to protect the memory of the Jews and other ethnic groups killed by Nazi forces and their supporters. Russia's new bill, however, would stop anyone reexamining a history fraught with half-truths and lies propagated by the Soviet government, then carried into the present on the backs of unrevised text books and a general aversion to looking too closely the country's past. (See pictures of Hitler's rise to power...
...Liberals in Russia fear the law may punish and silence new - and possibly more accurate - interpretations of the country's history and solidify the government's control of the past. But the real aim of the law may be to provide the Kremlin with another rhetorical tool with which to attack governments of former Soviet Republics and Eastern Bloc countries that have increasingly moved towards the West. The most recent example - which is still making waves in Russia - was the 2007 row in Estonia over the moving of the statue of a Red Army soldier from a central Tallinn square...
...When Russia's law "Against the Rehabilitation of Nazism" is passed, "the presidents of some countries who denied [the Soviet victory] would not be able to travel with impunity in our country. And the mayors of some cities, before demolishing sites, would think before they act," said Shoigu, according to RIA Novosti...