I'd rather have the United States be the world's policeman than the Soviet Union be the world's jailer
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Foreign policy, considering our current situation and possibilities, is being conducted sensibly and ever more forward-thinking.
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Though it is clear that present-day Russia poses no threat to it, NATO is methodically and persistently building up its military machine - into the east of Europe and surrounding Russia from the south.
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He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.
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All this leaves no doubt that they are preparing to completely encircle Russia and deprive it of its sovereignty.
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