The common belief about the end of the Cold War was very strong in American political circles. ... The last European country being included before 90s to NATO was Spain and it was in 1982. ... Valid arguments can be made against NATO enlargement, but this particular argument is spurious.7 To sum up this part of essay, NATO is a key part of American military domination in Europe. ... Americans started preparation to take their part in the war in Near East with almost full support of most western countries including (at least formally) Russia. ... Obama's administration would avoid to nam...

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A number of miscalculations, however, along with the strain of continuing the war with Germany, paved the way for a Bolshevik coup in November of 1917. ... After the war, the Bolsheviks renamed themselves the Communist Party, and declared Russia the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. ... Meanwhile, World War II was fast approaching. ... But he wanted to avoid war at all costs, and in 1939 he signed the Nazi- Soviet Pact, which pledged that the two dictatorships would not attack one another, and granted Stalin permission to take over the Baltic States and eastern Poland, and prosecute a war i...

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By creating this smooth governmental machine lead to maturity and progress, even while dealing with the Napoleonic wars. ... Napoleon defeats Alexander again at the Battle of Friedland, fooling his officer Bennigsen into a trap; bringing an end to the war of the 4th coalition. ... Russia and France are now allies, which puts an end to the opposition and war. ...

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But in typical Yeltsin contradictory manner, the war in Chechnya has demonstrated the worst of the Yeltsin regime. ... The war was connected more with the struggle for power in Moscow than with either economic or ethnic factors. ... Lilia Shevtsova considers the Chechnyan war a byproduct of the Yeltsin regime's reliance on personal politics. She writes "Yeltsin saw the war as a chance to flex his muscles...neutralize the conflicts within his own regime; expand his political base...and appear before the world...as a strong leader- (Shevtsova 67). ... These include questions of i...

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