Citing reduced tensions with the Soviet Union and the need to resuscitate East European economies, the Germans have demanded (with considerable success) that whole categories of strategically sensitive technologies be decontrolled.
In November 1978 Vietnam signed a treaty of friendship and cooperation with the Soviet Union.
This was in 1928, and the United States did not have diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union.
Finland, with its memory of war with the Soviet Union, has the largest artillery force in Europe.
The U.S. no longer finds itself in a bi-polar world with the Soviet Union as its primary enemy.
It is ironic, in retrospect, that there were certain advantages to our Cold War struggle with the Soviet Union.
Such activities have largely been ignored in the Western preoccupation with the Soviet Union's more benign overt diplomatic campaigns.
In fact those relationships go back to the early 1990s when South Korea reestablished diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union.
Finally, the United States is in the process of negotiating a series of arms control accords with the Soviet Union.
The U.S. today has far less economic leverage over Iran than it did with the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair credited Reagan with influencing U.S. politics and ending a global power struggle with the Soviet Union.
In 1979, the political cooperation between the United States and China was rooted largely in our shared rivalry with the Soviet Union.
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Indeed, no bilateral strategic arms reduction treaty with the Soviet Union or Russia has ever been ratified during a lame duck session.
Momentary, fleeting collaboration for immediate tactical advantage may make sense, as Churchill understood in joining with the Soviet Union to defeat Nazism.
It follows America's decision in June to withdraw from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, which it had signed in 1972 with the Soviet Union.
Despite Nasser's escalating ties with the Soviet Union, the Eisenhower administration opposed ejecting him from the Suez Canal for a host of reasons.
After WWII the U.S. faced unprecedented challenges--the emerging Cold War with the Soviet Union and the rebuilding and democratizing of shattered Europe and Japan.
Ms Rice can also claim credit for one distinct achievement: taking a firm line with the Soviet Union at the time of German unification.
Then there is a second faction, which is concerned less by parallels with the Soviet Union than by a perceived replay of the Japanese challenge.
It was impossible it was thought to really truly compete with the Soviet Union in science and math and other areas without a broadly educated public.
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Some argued that without it America could have agreed on a post-war settlement with the Soviet Union and thus avoided the horrors of the cold war.
With the Soviet Union clamoring for observer status or membership in these same institutions, U.S. and allied decision-makers must not fall prey to the same error once more.
He convinced Khomeini to end the Iran-Iraq war and broke Iran's international isolation by establishing trade relations with the Soviet Union, China, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
People who insisted that it was vital to look at worst-case scenarios when dealing with the Soviet Union proved remarkably averse to taking the same approach to environmental issues.
Prime Minister David Cameron was recently quoted as saying it was not right for the RAF to have planes that were ready for dogfights with the Soviet Union air force.
Nearly a hundred years later, President Charles de Gaulle repaid U.S. help in the liberation of France by cultivating close ties with the Soviet Union and expelling NATO headquarters from Paris.
Ross recalls that the U.S. was closer to nuclear war with the Soviet Union than many realize despite the fact that a dedicated hotline between Washington and Moscow was always open.
Fifty years ago today, the President of the United States grimly contemplated the possibility of global nuclear war as he entered a showdown with the Soviet Union over nuclear missiles in Cuba.
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