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There were many reasons that the U.S. and its allies were defeated in Vietnam. First and foremost they were beaten by an army that was superior in tactics, morale and political will.
The global uncertainty being triggered by the US tariff wars has been motivating India to speed up its bilateral trade dealings with NZ.
Curious events are unfolding as a result of Trump’s carnivalesque approach to trade and markets. While the value of the greenback has fallen, the returns from 10-year US government bonds have risen.
It’s distressing as a paediatric nurse, to see the horrors humans create for civilians, out of thirst for power or in reaction to attacks. During ANZAC week, let’s not be seduced into ‘unseeing’ decades of manipulation of foreign policy by military industry (MIC) promoting enemy ideology, confrontation, perpetual war and ‘enhanced lethality’ - deadly for targets; profitable for weapon producers.
In marking its own report card, and giving it a credible pass, the IDF found, using the dulling terms that make murder an afterthought, that the deaths were of minor if regretful consequence.
Centre-left opposition parties that have recently been in government are struggling to find an identity.
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