... to the Black Sea, which would have "interfered with plans to extend NATO," strategic analyst and former NATO planner Michael MccGwire observes. Rejecting these possibilities, the US took a triumphalist stand that threatened Russian security and also played a major role in driving Russia to severe economic and social collapse, with millions of deaths. The process was sharply escalated by ...

... to Moscow since the early 1990s, which resulted from a revised US view of how the cold war ended [see Cohen, "The New American Cold War," July 10, 2006]. In that new triumphalist narrative, America "won" the forty-year conflict and post-Soviet Russia was a defeated nation analogous to post-World War II Germany and Japan--a nation without full sovereignty at home or autonomous national ...

Carbon sinks' lose ability to soak up emissions Why sound so happy and triumphalist then? Do you have somewhere else you can go?

...to the Gody one. Sorry. It's ok. Your error gave me a chance to introduce myself a little. Gouge is a religious nutcase. His purpose on these forums is merely to declare to all his triumphalistic notions regarding Objectivism and Ayn Rand. Thus every discussion he engages in he believes he has won. Each one is a "victory" for him and his religion. His purpose is not to debate, but to ...

... high bars). The truth-shattering piece appeared yesterday on the front page of the Washington Post Outlook section. It is entitled "Why Bush Will Be A Winner." I had a preview of this deluded triumphalist drivel a couple of days earlier -- on Thursday afternoon specifically. Even more specifically, I was on the 4:00 pm Amtrak Acela from New York to Washington. Kristol was sitting a row ...

... is presumably titanium-coloured (shiny grey) metal, in the broad shape of a maple leaf. Lovely bit of design, managing to look both modern and strangely military, without being in any way triumphalist. See here: http://www.junobeach.org/ It's certainly a modern museum; the opening event is a re-creation, using modern AV, of being in a landing craft approaching the shore. I did ...

...coming from the terrible brass band at Engerland games. To my mind they're encouraging the triumphalist and xenophobic idea of "Britishness" displayed by some of their support. Funny how enjoying your Britishness is seen as triumphalist and xenophobic, yet celebrating your Irishness is only the craic. johnf ...

...coming from the terrible brass band at Engerland games. To my mind they're encouraging the triumphalist and xenophobic idea of "Britishness" displayed by some of their support. Funny how enjoying your Britishness is seen as triumphalist and xenophobic, yet celebrating your Irishness is only the craic. johnf ...

... sentence: "displayed by some of their support." I didn't say that "britishness" as a concept was triumphalist and xenophobic. I meant that some people's idea of what "britishness" means is triumphalist and xenophobic. You can disagree with that all you want. It's pretty obvious what you meant,...

... coming from the terrible brass band at Engerland games. To my mind they're encouraging the triumphalist and xenophobic idea of "Britishness" displayed by some of their support. Funny how enjoying your Britishness is seen as triumphalist and xenophobic, yet celebrating your Irishness is only the craic. johnf define "... celebrating...