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These achievements offer some advantages to the United States: prestige in the peacetime competition for influence, improved military access and basing in the region, and a minor augmentation to the United States’ capabilities in the event of a conflict with China.
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Susannah Patton, Foreign Affairs, 13 Sep. 2024
Once the fifth-largest economy in Latin America, Venezuela has experienced the worst economic collapse of a peacetime country in recent history.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN, 30 July 2024
Shriver and local Jeffersonians cheered with the first peacetime transfer of power from one political party to another, when Jefferson won the presidential election of 1800.
—Samuel M. Riley, Baltimore Sun, 27 July 2024
The Ukrainians wanted a peacetime army of 250,000 people; the Russians insisted on a maximum of 85,000, considerably smaller than the standing army Ukraine had before the invasion in 2022.
—Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2024
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Susannah Patton, Foreign Affairs, 13 Sep. 2024
Once the fifth-largest economy in Latin America, Venezuela has experienced the worst economic collapse of a peacetime country in recent history.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN, 30 July 2024
Shriver and local Jeffersonians cheered with the first peacetime transfer of power from one political party to another, when Jefferson won the presidential election of 1800.
—Samuel M. Riley, Baltimore Sun, 27 July 2024
The Ukrainians wanted a peacetime army of 250,000 people; the Russians insisted on a maximum of 85,000, considerably smaller than the standing army Ukraine had before the invasion in 2022.
—Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2024
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“Peacetime.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peacetime. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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