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...democratic community of peoples. We disagree about the ways of achieving this aim. I proceed from the fact that the end of the age of bloc confrontation has made redundant the old logic of a military-political rivalry, where opposing nations did their best to fill a geopolitical "vacuum" and divided whole continents into zones of influence. This is particularly true of Europe. We do not think the real problems of European security can be resolved by expanding nato to the East. Such a step would lead not only to the creation of a new dividing line...
...assiduously shows how conversation during the plague years was held at a distance for fear of infection. Everyone on-stage is isolated in space. Most of the cast mills about the empty stage like nomads, their tired despair growing into apathy and hatred. Surrounded by a vacuum of open space, they look small and, conversely, their plights seem small. A few actors, most noteably Jessica Fortunato and Brad Rouse, manage to fill the ample Mainstage...
...favored-nation status. Such a move enjoys growing support in the Senate, where a resolution calling for full diplomatic ties will be introduced soon. The resolution is popular for reasons that are not only economic but strategic: the end of the cold war has created an East Asian power vacuum in which Vietnam could play a key role. Swollen by an astonishing economic boom of its own, China appears eager to muscle into that vacuum. Its recent moves to garrison disputed islands in the South China Sea have even led to arguments by top Vietnamese officials that the U.S. uphold...
This made some Japanese permanently cynical: they would never believe anything again. But the spiritual vacuum of the postwar years provided fertile ground for all kinds of new cults and creeds. Most of them were organized around a charismatic figure. It was as though the demise of the Emperor as a god produced many little emperors, all with their own worshippers...
...Russia reverts to its traditional expansionist policies, in the absence of NATO, a nationalist state will be tempted to extend its control into the power vacuum to the west. But if the U.S. extends its security guarantees to the Czechs, Slovaks, Poles and Hungarians, Russia will find Eastern Europe more than it can swallow...