Новости за 18.06.2016

Emile Simpson, Foreign Policy
The pro-Brexit campaign is fudging numbers, reimagining history, and undermining the Great British tradition of common sense.

Noah Smith, Bloomberg View
Dependence on oil can get in the way of developing a diversified and resilient economy.

Jonah Goldberg, National Review
Instead of addressing the problem of terrorism after Orlando, the left implausibly blames Christians and focuses on linguistic trivia.

Sebastian Payne, Financial Times
The killing of Jo Cox, the British Labour MP, has shocked the country. It is too early to give an explanation for what has happened — but the suspension of all campaigning in the EU referendum is an appropriate response. We do know, however, that this is an attack on British representative democracy. Â

Anna Nemtsova, Daily Beast
Just minutes after Vladimir Putin gave an unusually pro-Western speech, his country's parliament members and athletes railed against their country's Olympic track and field ban, calling the charges an abuse of human rights.

Jon. Russell, Conservative Home
If you think we don't have a problem, you're not going to agree with much of what I'm about to write. At first glance, that problem might seem to be the murder of 49 gay people by Omar Mateen in Orlando, the apparent murder of Jo Coxby Tommy Mair, and the threat that we all fear from extremism and terrorism. But its not. The problem is how Mateen and Mair got to the point of committing their respective terrorist acts, and our inability to prevent this.

Ben Judah, Moscow Times
The results obtained by British political polling companies are not normally of interest to the great and the good of Washington, Brussels and Moscow.

Paulina Neuding, Project Syndicate
Debate about the influx of migrants into Europe has tended to focus on the logistics, such as how to provide enough beds for 1.1 million asylum-seekers in Germany and over 160,000 in Sweden. But, as the recent surge in sexual assaults on women and girls by asylum-seekers shows, the crisis is more a matter of culture than of numbers.

Laura Rozen, Al-Monitor
While the Obama administration is facing internal pressure to toughen its stance against Syria's Assad regime, Iran's Supreme National Security Council and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif are playing a larger role in setting Syria policy.

Timothy Lee & Zack Beauchamp, Vox
Nine questions about Brexit you were too embarrassed to ask.

Patrick Buchanan, The American Conservative
With very few resources, terrorists continue to harm the West—and change the course of history.

Jacob Shapiro, Geopolitical Futures
While the Soviets shunned religion, Putin has used the Russian Orthodox Church toward geopolitical ends.

Economist
A vote to leave the European Union would diminish both Britain and Europe.

Jamsheed & Carol Choksy, RealClearWorld
Attackers in Orlando, Brussels, San Bernardino, Paris, and Boston share a stark commonality with each other and with other terrorists: They already had come to the attention of law enforcement or intelligence agencies before they killed. In each instance, authorities decided that despite radical leanings and prior offenses the suspects would not commit acts of mass violence, and so discontinued investigations or did not share information across jurisdictions.

Ben Lowsen, The Diplomat
When East Meets West.

Robin Wright, New Yorker
The last American ambassador to serve in war-torn Syria speaks out about the letter of complaint about U.S. policy in Syria.