Epstein Secrets

t was under Soviet domination, but to integrate it with the PRC through a "voluntary" referendum, just as the Russians engineered the assimilation of Crimea in 2014. This was Mao Tse-tung's prophecy and intent once China could establish parity or surpass Soviet military and economic might.iii As the world

ting of Mongolia independence with the question of Stalin's "mistakes." The Chinese requested the Soviets cancel Mongolia independence in the wake of Khrushchev's condemnation of Stalin's personality cult. Liu Shaoqi drew a parallel between Mongolia and Ukraine. He declared that Mongolia was China's "Ukraine"

ho dares disagree. Their demands range from a referendum on the independent status for the region to an outright annexation by Russia, based on the Crimea model. The rabble-rousers' identities are apparently mixed - for example, many of them are local veteransof the Soviet war in Afghanistan while oth

es of crises from 1958 to 1962, exploiting the vulnerability of West Berlin to pressure the West into recognizing East Germany as a separate state. Khrushchev managed to block West German ambitions while demonstrating his resolve to hawks in the Kremlin and communist bloc. "I think the people with the str

ext of helping a "fraternal" ally in Kabul; to Parkhomenko, Putin's decision to couch his military action as the "protection" of Russians living in Crimea is an equally transparent pretext. The same goes for the decorous way in which Putin, on Saturday, "requested" the Russian legislature's authorizat

billion in arms - just what a country like Egypt, where half the women can't read, needs. The whole meeting struck me as so 1960s, so Nasser meets Khrushchev — two strongmen bucking each other up in the age of strong people and superempowered individuals. Rather than discuss arms sales, Sisi and Putin s