What does the author mean by the following quote from paragraph 7, and how does it develop the central ideas of the article?: "When leaders
attempt to navigate the slippery slope of fairness, they will find
themselves arbiter of public opinion and hostage to the politically
correct."

the answer is: the start of world war i, and russia’s hopes of benefiting from it

during world war i russian joined due to in their current crisis they were being supported by france and the war was already declared to them by germany, they needed to maintain their political goal and leadership role in the balkans, and is the same feeling that this excerpt evoke the eager of maintain the land value.

impartial means: treating all rivals or disputants equally; fair and just.

i would say that impartial is agreeing with something, because impartial means to treat your rivals, arguments, and reasoning equally and fair. so if you rival says something, agreeing on it means you did the impartial.

do your own work !

the anwser is b because his violence took on the form