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During China’s civil war, when the Red Army was relegated to Shaanxi’s mountains during the Yan’an period after the Long March, the party embraced its abundance of coal.—
Wesley Alexander Hill,
Forbes.com,
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Even the currency board that John Maynard Keynes installed in Archangel during Russia’s civil war (1918) worked without a glitch.—
Steve H. Hanke,
Fortune,
10 Aug. 2025
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On Thursday’s episode of The Excerpt podcast: USA TODAY National Correspondent Trevor Hughes breaks down a part of the recent tax bill that adds new ships to the Coast Guard's fleet in the Northwest Passage, and the broader context in that region amid an ongoing cold war with China.—
Taylor Wilson,
USA Today,
10 July 2025
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The Arab-Iranian cold war has been a primary factor behind Israel’s increasing diplomatic coziness with its Arab neighbors, who have largely shelved generations of anger against the Jewish state in order to check Iranian power.—
Matt Bradley,
NBC news,
24 June 2025
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In the 20th century, that meant the Great Depression and two world wars, as well as violence against people of color and all sorts of oppression.—
Michael Schneider,
Variety,
31 July 2025
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Singer pointed to the massive casualties from world wars, numbers that the world has not seen in several of the most recent conflicts combined.—
Erin Mansfield,
USA Today,
30 June 2025
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Many Russians will come to believe that Russia is fighting a holy war against the West and NATO, and that Western sanctions are designed to make ordinary Russians suffer.—
Maxim Mironov,
Foreign Affairs,
11 Mar. 2022
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In 1992, the government pressured Muslim clerics to declare a holy war against Nuba who opposed the regime.—
Nicolas Niarchos,
New Yorker,
19 May 2025
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In contrast, China has made targeted investments intended to give it an advantage in a quick, limited war, while keeping its overall defense spending relatively modest: Beijing’s defense spending has risen from five percent of U.S. levels in 1995 to 32 percent in 2017.—
Oriana Skylar Mastro,
Foreign Affairs,
20 May 2025
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And as always, there’s no guarantee that a limited war would stay limited.—
Joshua Keating,
Vox,
7 Dec. 2018
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