Regime troops were massing at the perimeter of the province.
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In the meantime, others are massing their forces against him.
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Mr. Massing writes about politics, the media, and social issues.
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Government troops are meanwhile massing, mostly in the nearby Sweida province.
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Regime troops had been massing at the edges of the province.
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General Hassan's video showed military vehicles said to be massing nearby.
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Seattle-Tacoma International Airport was in disarray, with protests massing. Gov.
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Castles let them start massing their unique unit, the throwing axeman.
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Emergency vehicles and people were massing around the edge of the complex.
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As Cappelaere spoke, coaltion forces were massing for an assault on Hodeidah.
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All around Italy, in some 350 squares, other crowds were massing too.
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Massing writes that Erasmus's influences on us today, unlike Luther's, are faint.
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Those thunderheads massing on the horizon let loose only a weak drizzle.
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Other court challenges are brewing, and senators and governors are massing against him.
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"Oh, but what about my mammoth, massing mounds of earwax!?" you might protest.
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To Turkey, though, the Kurds are a threat massing on its southern border.
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Perhaps more importantly, there are reports of Russian troops massing along nearby border regions.
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There are reports of Syrian fighters massing to join the fight on both sides.
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Rebels said on Wednesday that pro-government forces were massing on the front line.
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A group of people massing anywhere near that facility is not going to happen.
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Ms Hollingworth spotted German tanks massing on the border with Poland in late August 1939.
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Russia said on Monday that Nusra was massing around Aleppo ahead of a major offensive.
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Students around the country might be massing for a march on Washington on March 24.
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FATAL DISCORD Erasmus, Luther and the Fight for the Western Mind By Michael Massing Illustrated.
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The picture is a reverie before the sublime but also a massing of female power.
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After all, the regime responsible for the Tiananmen massacre is massing troops near the border.
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They made themselves an easy target for us, massing suicidally into a wobbly green blob.
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The men in the infantry who had been massing on Britain's coast felt the same way.
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Thousands of regime troops are massing at the gates of Idlib province, the rebels' last bastion.
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Israel says it does not want Iranian forces massing close to the nearby occupied Golan Heights.
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But some local militia members appeared to be massing for an attempt to recapture the area.
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On Wednesday, soldiers were seen massing nearby, suggesting a forcible evacuation could come at any moment.
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Crowded into departure terminals for days, they resembled the damned, massing to cross the River Styx.
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The intensified U.S. air strikes on al Shabab's massing forces and vehicles significantly complicate its operations.
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David Arendt, the manager, put a brave face on the trouble massing around his main investor.
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Last September Bashar al-Assad, Syria's dictator, began massing troops for an offensive to retake the province.
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But look closely and you'll see both momentum massing behind privacy — and regulatory writing on the wall.
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Video footage showed thousands of people massing at the Bab al-Salam crossing on the Turkish border.
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Luciano said, "I have footage of it—people and cops" massing around their fur-covered Snuggle van.
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This season has, even more than usual, been defined by unsteady play, shockingly shoddy refereeing, and massing scandal.
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Footage posted on social media showed hundreds of people massing outside the security directorate to protest the death.
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In the closing weeks, Trump tweeted madly about caravans of diseased and criminal elements massing on our borders.
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In the dialogue between Luther and Erasmus, Massing has omitted Erasmus's strongest lines, which are epistemological in nature.
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In the photograph, students exhibit their massing studies in a carnivalesque performance in front of a live audience.
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Protesters who have been massing on social media will be thrilled to give you their opinions in person.
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Many of its fighters who have retreated from other fronts are believed to be massing in Deir al-Zor.
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Late Thursday, Iraqi media outlets began reporting Kurdish statements that Iraqi troops were massing for an attack on Kirkuk.
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The rebels and political opposition said the government side was massing forces to launch a ground attack in the area.
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Television footage showed crowds and emergency vehicles massing around the smoking and flaming wreckage near Boufarik airport southwest of Algiers.
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But that did not stop Catalans from gathering before sunrise on Sunday, massing on rain-slicked streets across the region.
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"The ISIS headquarters contained a heavy concentration of ISIS fighters who appear to have been massing for movement," Maj. Gen.
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The students returned and quickly set up barricades to stop the police from entering the areas where they were massing.
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Zinc is sinking again with shorter-term funds attacking a deteriorating technical picture in London and bears seemingly massing in Shanghai.
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Or news sites offering us images of adorable puppies to get our attention before telling us about the latest massing shooting?
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In "Fatal Discord," Michael Massing looks at the illuminating tensions between Erasmus and Martin Luther at the dawn of the Enlightenment.
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Videos have been released showing Chinese soldiers practising riot suppression and paramilitary police massing just across the border from Hong Kong.
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"Both Mitchell and I wanted the new bungalow to maintain the scale, massing and charm of the neighborhood," Ms. Surchin said.
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The insurgents were reportedly massing on the outskirts of the city, which they have twice overrun, in 0003 and in 2016.
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He even accused her of giving protesters a hidden signal to protesters massing in Moscow with the support of the U.S. government.
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It's fast turning into a location where Blockchain startups are actually massing, eager to stay close to the fast-moving regulatory environment.
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Now the regime's forces are massing on the edge of Yarmouk, another suburb of Damascus that is occupied by Islamic State (IS).
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Videos widely shared on social media show thousands of protesters massing on the highway as pressure continues mounting on Rosselló to resign.
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But the bugs were still there, at times deploying their own kind of teamwork by massing together and attacking as a unit.
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The state has also had trouble massing soldiers to respond to last-minute developments at sites outside of the venues, according to Ferreira.
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SYRIA CIVIL WAR War of words: Russia: Turkey's massing troops on the Syrian border and we think they're getting ready to go in.
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There were unconfirmed reports on Thursday that Syrian soldiers and pro-government militia members were massing for a ground invasion of east Aleppo.
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Defense experts have also discussed the difficulty of hiding a huge anti-ISIS force of more than 30,85033 massing to retake the city.
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The Chinese foreign ministry said India had been "massing a large number of armed personnel" in a disputed plateau area next to Bhutan.
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The high concentration of ISIS militants gathered where the strikes took place signalled that they were potentially massing for a movement, CENTCOM said.
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Now the police seem to be trying to keep protesters stationary and sap their morale by massing around them, a technique known as "kettling".
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The audio, nearly 32 minutes long, references Turkey's massing of armaments along the Iraq-Turkey border, suggesting that the recording was made very recently.
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The photos, first published by The Associated Press, come just one day after Chinese state media published videos of military police massing in Shenzhen.
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The Syrian government is massing forces near Idlib Province for what could be the last big battle in the country's long, horrific civil war.
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The command of the Kurdish security forces, known as Peshmerga, accused Iraqi troops of massing weapons and threatening force to resolve "domestic political differences".
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Turkey has been massing troops for days in preparation for an attack against Kurdish fighters in northeast Syria that Ankara considers a terrorist organization.
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Rifle-wielding marines decked in snow camouflage prepared for battle with cups of hot chocolate, the attendant unfazed by the firepower massing on her forecourt.
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Her voice is slowly stretched apart, then reinserted alongside a massing riot of snares and kicks, until it becomes its own kind of sputtering rhythm.
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Massing forces across the Atlantic Resolve area of operation "displays the US Army's readiness, cross-border military mobility and speed of assembly," the release said.
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Kurdish officials claimed Iraqi forces were massing outside the oil-rich region of Kirkuk, a region effectively controlled by Kurdish forces but disputed by Baghdad.
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Any "safe zone" in northeast Syria must be guaranteed by international forces and not by the Turkish troops and jihadist militias massing at our borders.
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On the ground, meanwhile, tens of thousands of Iraqi troops, Kurdish peshmerga, and Sunni tribal fighters are massing outside Mosul in advance of the attack.
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The fabled massing of the Wall Street skyscrapers has been given masterful urban definition by the architects' ordering of these few blocks of new construction.
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An American official said the precise identity of the pro-government militia force was unclear but that it had been massing for about a week.
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Pro-Assad forces are "massing east of the Euphrates River" in Syria, which was established as a deconfliction line by the U.S. and Russia, CNN reports.
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The United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, while broadly voicing support for Ukraine, have not corroborated the claim of troops massing at the border.
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American and Afghan officials said that the insurgents were massing on the outskirts of the city, which they have twice overrun, in 2015 and in 2016.
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But before he even takes office, thousands of migrants from Central America massing along the U.S. border are testing how he will live up to that.
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Shoppers shuffled along the Avenida Madero, massing around ice cream stands and taco dives, streaming in and out of discount clothing shops and the Gandhi bookstore.
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"It looked like they were massing for a movement," Dillon said noting that it was rare for ISIS fighters to gather in such a large group.
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Huge crowds of Brazilians celebrated an extended Carnival season, massing in minimal clothes for maximum distraction from the Zika virus spreading via mosquito bites through the region.
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Vapor trails in the sky, the nightly flicker of anti-aircraft fire; rumors of barges massing along the coast of Holland, Kriegsmarine minesweepers probing the Channel defenses.
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I could see it, in fact, still, the turbulent whiteness massing and gathering, the wave whose inability to stop itself rising and breaking formed its inescapable destiny.
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Chinese paramilitary forces are massing at a stadium just outside Hong Kong as Beijing expresses growing frustration with the unrest that has gripped the city for months.
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Untold millions of wights are massing North of the Wall — But they've barely moved any closer to Eastwatch than they were at the start of the season.
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The reinforcements will join Special Operations forces in recruiting, training and advising Kurdish and Arab fighters massing for an assault on the Islamic State's stronghold of Raqqa.
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Massing widens the lens wondrously, bringing in Erasmus, the great humanist foe of Luther, and showing how their rivalry set the course for much of Western civilization.
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Rebels said pro-government forces were massing on the front lines and army helicopters had dropped leaflets calling on civilians to surrender and evacuate rebel-held areas.
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Trump and Miller have become increasingly frustrated as the number of Central American migrants massing at the southwest border surges to levels not seen in a decade.
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Massing under a bright moon on a dusty ridge line about 14km north-east of Mosul, thousands of Peshmerga fighters prepared for the second phase of their advance.
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As long as China is not invading other countries or massing troops on its borders, why should we even think that we can or should manage its rise?
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - With nearly one million displaced Syrians massing near the Turkish border in the face of a Syrian government military offensive, President Tayyip Erdogan's options are narrowing.
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Syrian government forces have been massing troops ahead of a possible attack on Daraa province and the nearby Quneitra region that border Jordan and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
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Rudskoi also said about 7,000 Jabhat Fatah al-Sham militants had been massing south-west of Aleppo for the past week and were still being joined by new fighters.
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And after massing its forces between Brega and Ras Lanuf, and carrying out daily air strikes against its rivals, it took back both those terminals in a single day.
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The clearest case of preemption in modern history was the 85033 Arab-Israeli war, in which the Israelis attacked enemy forces as they were massing and preparing to move.
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And we're watching Sudan, where protesters have been massing to call for the departure of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who has wielded authoritarian power there for three decades.
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" Michael Massing is a former executive editor of the Columbia Journalism Review and the author, most recently, of "Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind.
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Mr. Ancarani's calm, fixed gaze serves as its own commentary, whether it's trained on dozens of S.U.V.s massing in the desert or on men lovingly tending to their falcons.
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MOSCOW, April 11 (Reuters) - Al-Nusra militants are massing around the Syrian city of Aleppo and are planning a large-scale offensive, the Russian military General Staff said on Monday.
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Now, Trump faces an ever-massing ball of controversy, set aflame on Sunday with the former FBI director's first interview as he launches a media blitz to promote his book.
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Africa Command officials offered no other details except to say it did not kill or injure any civilians, suggesting the militants were in a camp or massing for an attack.
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Washington (CNN)Pro-Syrian regime forces have begun massing east of the Euphrates River near where US troops are present while advising local allies, according to three US military officials.
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Perhaps one day we won't associate the ukulele with the howls of a thousand demons massing for the destruction of our souls and instead associate it with only rainbows and light.
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The most famous confrontation to take place behind closed doors was in 1967, when military leaders urged hesitant ministers for a pre-emptive attack against Egyptian forces massing on Israel's border.
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There were dozens of these posts, and they usually looked similar: police in pale-blue shirts, lots of shouting, crowds massing in the streets, occasionally someone on the ground being beaten.
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"Once it comes time to actually build that component, we will start a new drawing with the extents of that massing block, and then start to detail it out," Parham said.
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Among other immersive high points is Stan VanDerBeek's "Movie Mural" (1968), a floor-to-ceiling massing of slide and film projections with the scale of a walk-by drive-in movie.
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Massing American troops at another country's border, several current and former Defense Department officials said, would send a message of hostility and raise the chances of provoking an all-out conflict.
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In the wake of this attack, police, including heavily armed tactical units, were deployed all over the city, massing in great numbers at symbolic locations as well as at tunnels and airports.
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Rudskoi said the situation in the southwest of Aleppo remains difficult, with about 7,000 Jabhat Fatah al-Sham militants massing there for the past week and still being joined by new combatants.
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The siege of Marawi began in May, when Philippine troops tried to arrest Isnilon Hapilon, the Islamic State leader in Southeast Asia, and stumbled upon hundreds of militants massing for an assault.
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Images of Chinese troops massing near Hong Kong have led to fears of an impending crackdown on pro-democracy protesters — but China's next move will be dangerous, no matter what it is.
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The Iraqi army is also massing tanks and troops south of Mosul, in preparation for an offensive planned later this year to retake the largest city under the control of the militants.
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For instance, calling ISIS a "terrorist" group ignores the fact that in Iraq and Syria, ISIS also uses more conventional military tactics — massing forces, launching complex operations, and taking and holding territory.
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Gulen, once Erdogan's ally and whose followers run a network of schools in Turkey and elsewhere, over the last few years has become a sharp critic of the President's steady massing of power.
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In recent days, the U.S. military has repeatedly warned massing forces to stay away from a 'deconfliction zone' near a garrison used by American special forces and U.S.-backed fighters around At Tanf.
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An investigation found that the air force saw people massing in the area on satellite footage, assumed they were Boko Haram Islamist militants and launched the assault, the military said in a statement.
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Newly emboldened anti-abortion activists have been massing outside clinics and even creating fake ones, emulating a tactic used by American activists in which women are lured inside and harangued about their choice.
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Diaspora Puerto Ricans, struggling to make contact with kin stranded on the island, are already preparing emergency shelter in their own homes and massing donations in mainland communities from New York to Florida.
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Those same pro-regime forces had previously been massing and taking up positions east of the river, an area that is nearby where US troops are advising local Syrian Democratic Forces fighting ISIS.
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It has clawed its way back to $5,210 but with bearish funds still massing on the short side it remains to be seen whether this is anything other than a pause for collective breath.
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This isn't Westeros; no one's out here massing troops on opposite sides of a meadow, while the fat cats in the biggest tent play an oversized game of Risk and tend to their carbuncles.
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With federal agents and the best bounty hunters in the nation massing on their heels, the gang must rob, steal and fight their way across the rugged heartland of America in order to survive.
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At the time, a Western diplomat said that the Nigerian military had been informed that fighters were massing to attack a military post nearby but that the strike had hit the camp in error.
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For weeks Syrian forces have been massing around the edges of Idlib province, preparing for an offensive to retake the last major part of the country still under the control of the armed opposition.
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An opposition activist in Idlib told CNN that the regime was massing troops to the south of Idlib (in northern Hama province), to reinforce its existing military positions rather than initiate an imminent offensive.
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This presents the Imperial troops with multiple threats, drawing them out into the forest where they can be engaged from positions of relative dominance, rather than massing all of their forces at one point.
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Angered by the detention of two colleagues, they went on to brave arrest and violence by massing outside the building and chanting against state repression, a rare act of defiance against the current government.
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It has clawed its way back to $249.4,250.2 but with bearish funds still massing on the short side it remains to be seen whether this is anything other than a pause for collective breath.
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Whatever rises in its place must be approved by the preservation panel, which will consider "the design, massing, materials, and how it relates to the streetscape and the historic district," Zodet Negron, a spokeswoman, said.
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He signaled no retreat on his most quintessential, and divisive, campaign pledge, saying, "walls work and walls save lives," and raising the specter of "caravans" of migrants massing for a "tremendous onslaught" on the border.
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Turkey has been massing troops for days along its border with Syria and vowed it would go ahead with the military operation and not bow to the U.S. threat over its plans against the Kurds.
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Some of the troops massing around Idlib are former rebels who surrendered to the regime in other battles, a sign of both the government's manpower shortage as well as the sense of impending defeat among rebels.
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In another grim twist in a war that has continually redefined anguish, some of the Syrian forces massing for the Idlib battle are former rebels, who laid down their arms against the government in reconciliation deals.
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Some of those people responded to desperation by attempting to cross into the US between ports of entry, which is a federal misdemeanor; a few reacted by throwing things at Border Patrol agents massing against them.
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Massing for Friday prayers in Baghdad's vast slum known as Sadr City, they castigate pro-Iranian militia leaders, whom they once cheered for repelling IS, saying they are worse than Saddam Hussein, the blood-drenched former dictator.
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Pyongyang, North Korea (CNN)At the Korean demilitarized zone, speakers are blasting propaganda and troops are massing, but in the heart of Pyongyang, talk is only of the purported success of North Korea's first hydrogen bomb test.
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The U.S. military had repeatedly warned massing forces to stay away from a so-called "de-escalation" zone near a garrison used by American special forces and U.S.-backed fighters around the southern town of At Tanf.
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Yet even as Mrs Merkel was speaking, about a thousand men, described by police as mainly migrants of north African or Arab origin, began massing between Cologne's railway station and cathedral, where fireworks were about to begin.
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In the first phase, the troops who have been massing at bases around Mosul in recent weeks will encircle the city, seeking to cut it off and prevent Islamic State fighters from fleeing, particularly west into Syria.
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Through the synchronization of direct and indirect fire, close air support, combat engineer principles, deception, psychological operations, and massing their forces at the key point in time and space, the Ewoks demonstrate their proficiency in land warfare.
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A few months before the Berlin Wall came down, Chinese students massing in Tiananmen Square posed what officials in Beijing viewed as an existential threat, a legacy that continues to color everything the government does to this day.
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Pictures of massing migrants bolster his theme, even though he rips them out of context and ignores reporters on the ground who are able to show that his claims that the column includes "Middle Easterners" are likely false.
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"There was incoming fire, and we were with the SDF, hunkered down, not provoking, and a force is massing and coming at us, so we're going to defend ourselves," the head of US Air Forces Central Command, Lt. Gen.
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For instance, calling ISIS a "terrorist" group ignores the fact that in Iraq and Syria, ISIS has used more conventional military tactics — massing forces, launching complex operations, and taking and holding territory — in addition to carrying out terror attacks.
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Senior combatants on both sides said pro-government forces were massing in several parts of Aleppo, Syria's biggest city before the war, now divided into a western zone held by the army and a smaller, besieged area held by rebels.
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MICHAEL MASSING NEW YORK To the Editor: As a footnote to Dava Sobel's review of Claire L. Evans's "Broad Band" (March 25), note that Yale University, having "unnamed" Calhoun College for the slaveholding John C. Calhoun, renamed it for Rear Adm.
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In recent days, the U.S. military has repeatedly warned massing forces to stay away from a so-called "de-confliction" zone near a garrison used by American special forces and U.S.-backed fighters around the southern town of At Tanf.
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After Nasir's eponymous "night of" in which he awoke to find his new friend stabbed to death in her bed where they had so recently had relations, we now get a sense of the forces massing both for and against him.
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On Tuesday, a senior Trump administration official said that there were rumors of Chinese police massing along the Hong Kong border, but didn't say if this was due to the protests or even whether the US government had confirmed it.
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Hundreds of thousands of protesters are massing in Washington, D.C., Saturday to voice their opposition to President Trump and his new administration — and if you're not there but want to see what's going on, you have a lot of options.
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Ramirez's past few seasons have been a difficult but necessary correction, a period of massing proof that the superstar is gone and that all anyone should expect from him now is sporadic excellence that might result, if used correctly, in season-long competence.
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Luis Fernando Camacho, a civic leader from the eastern city of Santa Cruz, was whisked away in a convoy from the city's main airport in nearby El Alto in the midst of a huge security presence and with rival protest groups massing outside.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Yemeni government forces and their Arab allies are massing north and south of the Houthi-held Red Sea port of Hodeidah despite United Nations and aid groups warnings that a military operation there would put millions of civilians at risk.
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For Lithuania and other Baltic republics, which won their independence from Moscow in 1991 but remain home to ethnic Russian minorities, any massing of Russian troops near their borders spreads concern, especially since the 2014 annexation of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula by Moscow.
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This time, the government is largely deferring to power companies, which under mutual aid pacts that allow them to draw help from utilities in nearby states are already massing thousands of workers in the region to begin repairs once Hurricane Florence has passed.
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At Chuan Tian Xia, a Sichuan restaurant that opened a year and a half ago in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, this is a dish of excess, a great massing of eggplants, long trunks with skins caramelized at the edges, flesh surrendered to sauce.
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While Americans are distracted by an increasingly chaotic presidential campaign, half a world away, Russian troops are massing along the border of Ukraine again suggesting the possibility of a new escalation of the violence that has raged there since Moscow's invasion of Crimea in 2014.
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In 1992, only 5 percent of geography students at Ohio's Bowling Green State University could find Kuwait on an unmarked map, even as 500,000 American soldiers were massing to make war there and in Iraq, another country these students couldn't find on a map.
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While the court reversed the most disputed parts of its ruling on Saturday, that did not stop crowds from massing in a large middle-class Caracas district to accuse President Nicolás Maduro of trying to eviscerate Venezuela's democratic institutions and establish one-man rule.
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MANAMA, Bahrain — The United States is sending 200 additional troops to Syria, nearly doubling the Pentagon's presence there, to help thousands of Kurdish and Arab fighters massing for an assault on the Islamic State's stronghold of Raqqa, Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter said here on Saturday.
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By definition, tax overhaul creates winners and losers on tax day, and with billions of dollars at stake, the prospect of revamping the system has already created fierce infighting among Republicans and a massing of lobbyist forces underwritten by a divided but well-heeled business community.
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"It has already been more than a month since the incident, and India is still not only illegally remaining on Chinese territory, it is also repairing roads in the rear, stocking up supplies, massing a large number of armed personnel," the foreign ministry said in a statement.
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Achieving comparable freedom of movement for military vehicles among NATO countries has become the US Army's top priority in Europe after Russia caught the world off guard by massing tens of thousands of soldiers on Ukraine's borders and then occupying and annexing Crimea two years ago.
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By the start of the millennium, its newest incarnation, a border war over a patch of seemingly worthless ground just 19983 square miles in size, devolved into a tense standoff, with the two nations each massing along the border thousands of troops from both official and unofficial armies.
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Moreover, it would be impossible to hide a force of about 30,000 Iraqi and Kurdish troops that have been massing for weeks on the outskirts of Mosul, gradually encircling the city while conducting artillery fire and airstrikes to soften up enemy defenses in advance of the main ground offensive.
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It's an inspired approach, and Massing, a journalist, has produced a sprawling narrative around the rift between the two men, laying out the sociological, political and economic factors that shaped both them and Europe's responses to them, and tracing their theological disputes back to the earliest days of Christianity.
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The right has gun clubs and circles of home-schooling Christian moms; if the Left mainly builds systems for massing people just for the moments when they are most needed, it will miss a critical opportunity to revive a democracy centered on real people in relationships with one another.
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This style, often seen by historians as a combination of the emerging Arts and Crafts movement and 19th-century eclecticism, is known for its extensive use of shingles as a building material and its multi-massed (massing is a fancy word for a building's three-dimensional forms) architectural complexity.
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The implications of American global retreat will encourage Vladimir Putin, already massing forces to invade Ukraine again if he so chooses, to expand his efforts to destroy the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Union, regain control of the former Soviet states, and marginalize the United States around the world.
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First, by embodying the French republic in retreat from the Germans; then by seizing power, in a republican mode, to end the Algerian crisis; and, finally, when he ended the potential chaos of the May revolt by massing almost a million people on the Champs-Élysées in a counter-demonstration.
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Just prior to the announcement that Russia would resume talks with Ankara on the issue, wire services and social media widely published photos of what appeared to be Turkish special forces and infantry massing along side newly equipped Syrian rebel allies and heavy armor for a counter attack on the Syrian lines.
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Again, this massing of hard, nerve-fraying fact makes clear that this monument is meant to perturb, not console, in contrast, say, to Montgomery's official Civil Rights Memorial, a 1989 Maya Lin design located near the Southern Poverty Law Center, which soothes the visitor with resonant words and interactive contact with flowing water.
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In its quest for quick passage of fundamental tax reform — the better to defeat opponents of the elimination of sundry loopholes, whose forces are even now massing on the border — the House will forego a conference to reconcile differences with the Senate, and will instead vote Thursday on the Senate-passed budget resolution, as is.
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But at the same time, the report calls for an acceleration of the American strategy of persistent engagement, in which Cyber Command and the National Security Agency go deep inside Russian, Chinese, Iranian and North Korean networks, among others, to see attacks massing or to take pre-emptive action to deter an adversary's operations.
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And it followed a monthslong tit for tat between Mr. Rasmussen and Mr. Putin, with the Russian president taking the NATO chief to task for secretly recording their private conversation, and Mr. Rasmussen accusing Mr. Putin of playing a "double game" in Ukraine by issuing conciliatory statements while massing troops on the border and shipping weapons to the separatists.
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Reviewing the book, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein applauds this "inspired approach": "Massing, a journalist, has produced a sprawling narrative around the rift between the two men, laying out the sociological, political and economic factors that shaped both them and Europe's responses to them, and tracing their theological disputes back to the earliest days of Christianity," she writes.
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These are just a few of the ideas that were floating around last week in Trumpworld, a place that felt wilder than usual — as turbulent as the stock market, as heated as the 2020 presidential race and as ominous as the talk of recession and the Chinese tanks and trucks massing on the border with Hong Kong.
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On the other side, in spite of some chest thumping on the part of Canadian nationalists calling themselves "Canada Firsters" — some of whom hoped for a "rattling good war with the United States" to prove their macho credentials — and the massing of troops along the border during the Trent Affair, Canada never mounted a credible threat to annex or invade the United States.
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Here are the books discussed in this week's "What We're Reading": "Heavy" by Kiese Laymon "An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good" by Helene Tursten "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion" by Yukio Mishima "Fatal Discord" by Michael Massing "The Hazel Wood" by Melissa Albert We would love to hear your thoughts about this episode, and about the Book Review's podcast in general.
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As Michael Massing reported in The New York Review of Books last year, Columbia University's Teachers College accepted a multimillion-dollar grant to produce a high school curriculum on "the fiscal challenges that face the nation"—code for "why we need to cut entitlements"—while the financial services company BB&T has donated to dozens of colleges to promote the "moral foundations of capitalism" and the thought of Ayn Rand.
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Although Iceland crashed out in its subsequent match, humbled by France — "We kind of had a flat tire," Hallgrimsson said of the 5-2 defeat — the team returned to Iceland to find 100,000 people, nearly a third of the national population, massing at Keflavik International Airport, lining up along the (two-lane) highway and gathering in central Reykjavik, where they performed the intimidating but wordless Viking thunderclap chant that the fans had rolled out at the tournament.
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Here are some of the other books the editors discuss: "Friday Black" by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah "Into the Raging Sea" by Rachel Slade "My Year of Rest and Relaxation" by Ottessa Moshfegh "Rise and Kill First" by Ronen Bergman "The Friend" by Sigrid Nunez "Fatal Discord" by Michael Massing "Heavy" by Kiese Laymon "The Overstory" by Richard Powers "The Witch Elm" by Tana French "Calypso" by David Sedaris We would love to hear your thoughts about this episode, and about the Book Review's podcast in general.
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