building permanent military control, changing the geography on the ground, and trying to rule through local proxy forces, and why that approach is now failing.
(Foreign Affairs) Asli Aydintasbas - When the Gaza ceasefire deal was signed on Oct ... Or so Erdogan would want the Turks to believe ... For ordinary Turks who are struggling to make ends meet, imperial grandeur feels distant from daily hardship ... ....
Snowfall has turned the ShenyangImperialPalace into a living painting ... Built in 1625, the 400-year-old palace stands as one of China's two best-preserved ancient imperial palace complexes.■.
... instead pursued what can only be described as selective interventionism wrapped in the rhetoric of restraint—a curious amalgam of realpolitik, transactional dealmaking and occasional imperial hubris.
The travel industry has a problem with words. Walk through any luxury hotel conference, and you’ll hear the same ones lobbed around like currency ... They’re right ... Imperial splendor meets modern comfort ... Imperial splendor meets modern comfort ... .