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During the Cold War, Republicans switched gears and supported vast military budgets, but they never relaxed their opposition to social spending.

冷战期间，共和党改变了立场，开始支持庞大的军事预算，但从来没有松懈过对社会公共支出的反对。

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War is right at the center of it, and war itself requires political and social organization.

战争是故事的主题,战争就需要社会与政治的组织

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But this list is different from the principles behind Britain's post-war social contract which embedded the idea of statutory responsibilities and individual rights.

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Old tax-and-spend habits, picked up over decades as Sweden cushioned its people with the kindest welfare state in the world, had apparently been discarded as new-look, fiscally tight Social Democrats waged war on public debt.

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