Новости за 18.05.2016

Kamran Bokhari, Geopolitical Futures
The United States' decision to arm anti-communist factions in Afghanistan during the 1980s inadvertently facilitated the emergence of transnational jihadism, which over the decades has spread across the Middle East. Nearly two generations later, Washington and its European allies are considering doing the same thing in Libya to fight the Islamic State. It is not clear that Western powers will follow through with the plan. Libya's problems have less to do with... Читать дальше...

K. Vanden Heuvel,  WP
As the White House announced that President Obama would visit Hiroshima, Japan, it immediately pledged that the he would not apologize for the United States' dropping atomic bombs on that city and Nagasaki during World War II.

Roger Simon, PJ Media
The courage to go after sacred cows is one of Donald Trump's more appealing, if controversial, traits.  He raised the issue of NATO, contending the USA pays far too much of the freight in the mutual defense pact.

Michael Weiss, Daily Beast
The Kremlin wants to get rid of the Magnitsky Act, which fingers some of its state-approved gangsters, and it's using desperately needy children as pawns.

Robert Shines, FP Association
Russian resurgence has planted seeds of conflict both within individual NATO members, as well as between different geographic areas of the alliance.

John Micklethwait, Bloomberg View
Exhaustion in Europe's powerhouse could pose a bigger threat to the EU than a British exit would.

Maxim Trudolyubov, Wilson Center
When it comes to the dismantling of the Russian independent media, Kremlin politicians know how to bide their time and pursue a long-term strategy, while sending distracting or misleading signals to the Russian public and foreign countries.

Leanne Wood, New Statesman
Plaid Cymru's leader, Leanne Wood, explains her deal with Welsh Labour.Â

Eliot Cohen, New York Times
Washington — Donald J. Trump can be seen as a talented demagogue, or as the manifestation of deep pathologies in the body politic, but he is also the bearer of ideas — crudely framed and sometimes incoherent, but ideas nonetheless. Nowhere is this more true than on foreign policy.

David Ignatius, Washington Post
A case study in what can happen when the government launches a toxic investigation without adequate due diligence.

Ed West, Spectator
Is Donald Trump the Leicester City of US politics, the 5,000/1 outsider who took everyone by surprise?Â

Beimeng Fu, BuzzFeed
Despite Trump's love-hate relationship with China, his Chinese fans believe he's the one who can make the U.S., and even the world, great again.

Jonathan Tobin, Commentary
Since the Times profile, there's been a lot of talk about the administration's lies about Iran, and some of those accusations are accurate. The administration did lie about its diplomatic pursuit of Iran in 2013 as well as about the premise for those talks being the nonsensical proposition that the election of a “moderate” as president of Iran. Hassan Rouhani is no moderate but, as we now know, President Obama began the initiative while the even less moderate Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was in that office... Читать дальше...

Nathan Cullen, OC
For decades, many Canadians have longed for the chance to reform our outdated and unfair first-past-the-post electoral system, under which parties with less than 40 per cent of the popular vote have achieved “false majorities” with 100 per cent of the power in Parliament.

Kaitlin Lavinder, The Cipher Brief
Argentina is throwing itself back into the international economic community, after a 2002 default that thwarted the country's access to world capital markets. The center-right Macri government, which came to power last December, is moving full speed ahead with economic reforms.

Alexander Motyl, World Affairs Journal
I can understand, intellectually, at least, dying for your family or friends, for your country or city or community, for democracy or peace or your nation.But dying for a piece of crummy land populated by 3 million inhabitants, the vast majority of whom hate Ukraine and everything it stands for? That makes no sense.

Jeff Spross, The Week
The South American country's economy is a mess. Here's how to clean it up.

Simon Cottee, Foreign Policy
Western women who join the Islamic State aren't victims who've been groomed or seduced by men. They're committed jihadis in their own right.

N. Guibert, Worldcrunch
The Islamic State (ISIS) wants us to believe that terrorists will soon be equipped with nuclear weapons. Authorites in Washington, where a recent series of four summits on nuclear security was held, have expressed concern about the Syrian-Iraqi

Petr Aven & Vladimir Nazarov & Samvel Lazaryan, National Interest
The age of oil rents is over. A political and geopolitical revolution is on its way.

Dirk Kurbjuweit, Der Spiegel
Democracy reflects the will of the people. But what if the will of the people threatens democracy?