Epstein Secrets

cess to U.S. markets. The Iraq War was designed to "shock and awe" that nation's ruler and to convince other opponents of the U.S., in Damascus and Tehran, especially, that they could be next. Meanwhile, it was hoped that once a pro-Western, democratic Iraq stabilized, it would give the U.S. leverage

egion then called Outer Manchuria. The southern part of this concession would become Russia's maritime province, Primorsky Krai, where the city of Vladivostok ("Ruler of the East") was chartered in 1880. The century that followed Moscow's "Amur annexation" introduced dramatic changes to Northeast Asia's p

terness did not—as Henry Kissinger would learn during his first meeting with Deng Xiaoping in 1974, when the topic of a U.S.-Soviet arms summit in Vladivostok prompted the future Chinese leader to lecture him on Russian rapacity. Considering this background, as well as China's unresolved boundary dispute

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