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  • Crimean Punishment

    There has been much speculation of late about a possible Russian intervention in Ukraine. After Russia ordered large-scale military exercises on Ukraine’s border earlier this week, for example, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry warned that “any kind of military intervention that would violate the sovereign territorial integrity of Ukraine would be a huge, a grave mistake." And NATO Secretary Gene

    Crimean Punishment
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    godmother 2014/02/28
    天然ガス輸送の新会社や中国などの介入を考慮すると、ロシアが、ウクライナへの供給停止やEU諸国を怒らせるような行動を取るとは思えない。
  • Drones Over Damascus

    For the past four years, Americans have been preoccupied with drone technology as a cheap, low-risk, and discriminate way to eliminate emerging global threats without getting entangled in protracted conflicts. The U.S. government has even dramatically changed its military force structure to make armed drones a lynchpin of U.S. power projection. Yet these weapons have been virtually useless in the

    Drones Over Damascus
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    godmother 2013/09/03
    揚陸艦に積まれているかとされた武装ドローンの運用規制は「領空への無制限なアクセス、明確な目標、および明確な目的」米政府は、この条件が何一つないと。では、運搬しているのは兵士と戦車や何?ってことになる
  • Former Japanese PM Naoto Kan on the Fukushima Disaster

    My father was an engineer, and when I was a child, he told me the story of Prometheus, a famous Greek myth in which Zeus grows angry at Prometheus for giving humans the wisdom of fire, knowledge capable of bringing on disaster. As punishment, Zeus chains Prometheus to a rock, where an eagle pecks incessantly at his liver. Today, I cannot help but remember that story when I think about the developm

    Former Japanese PM Naoto Kan on the Fukushima Disaster
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    godmother 2012/03/13
    「Taking advantage of the lessons we learned from the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident, Japan should become a model country that is able to supply all its energy needs without depending upon nuclear power or fossil fuels.」
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