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Would a crazed Russian dictator in 2020 really believe that he could roll tanks into Germany with impunity because NATO had failed to wrest a Yugoslavian province from Belgrade's domination in 1999?
In conversations, Eurocrats are frank about their maneuvering for more money and empire: to wrest "competence," or jurisdiction, away from national governments and vest it in Brussels is the open objective.
Most worrying were the Seljuk Turks, who came out of the east in the 11th century to wrest large parts of Asia Minor from Constantinople’s control.
Republicans are right that campaign finance reform is "class warfare": It would wrest from the hands of the moneyed elite the disproportionate political power it now wields.
Analysts agreed that NATO is increasingly provoking the Serbs by helping Bosnian Serb President Biljana Plavsic wrest power from her predecessor, Radovan Karadzic, who remains the Serbs' de facto leader.