Baucus said in his state, that vacuum has mostly been filled by misinformation.

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Sending Western troops into Syria too soon could create a power vacuum and a "sudden, uncontrolled state collapse", a retired British general has warned.

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So this is not something that State Department is doing in a vacuum at all.

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Congo's war, for example, began because neighbouring countries invaded, but they were able to invade only because the Congolese state had ceased to function, leaving a vacuum.

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"When you slide that door open, all of the electronics are exposed to the near-vacuum, so we had to develop a solid-state breaker that was monitoring actual loads across that circuit, " Thompson said.

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