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US Presidential Elections

12-09-2024

The presidential elections are of such importance in world politics that many of us are wondering and waiting. Since Joe Biden had the wisdom to withdraw his candidacy, his vice-president Kamala Harris became the democratice candidate,Attached article underlines the importance of the outcome for many of us around the world. The first debate between her and Trump gives some hope that she may win the elections.Another four years Trump would be a disaster!  Given the mean character of Trump, he is unlikely to accept defeat as he did four years ago, Whatever the outcome, America is in for a serious crisis. We can only hope that  US Democracy will survive candidate-Trump dictator..




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Frans A.M. Alting von Geusau

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The peaceful collapse of the Soviet totalitarian, communist system has been a watershed of historic proportions in Europe and the world. In 1989, unexpectedly, Communism and the Cold War were behind us, they were bad and should be forgotten. The immediate post-1989 world presented itself as a new era of organised forgetting, as neither East nor West were interested in examining the prolonged period of acquiescence in absurdities.

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Since 1989, we refer to the whole post-war period as the “Cold War Era”. Such was not the case in 1968. At the time, the Cold War – in our perception – was behind us. We no longer felt to be in the midst of it. Europeans on the Western side of the Iron Curtain0 felt relatively at ease with Europe’s division. The era of Détente as we called it, was0 considered to be a fairly stable and long-lasting political condition, even after Soviet tanks crushed Dubcek’s socialism with a human face in Pragu