Новости за 27.07.2016

Ashley Parker, New York Times
“Russia, if you're listening,” Trump said, “I hope you're able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing.”

Dana Milbank, Washington Post
Finally, a conspiracy theory the Republican nominee isn't reveling in.

Shane Harris & Nancy Youssef, Daily Beast
The hacker who claimed to compromise the DNC swore he was Romanian. But new research shows he worked directly for the Vladimir Putin government in Moscow.

Angelovski et al, Guardian
Eastern European countries have approved the discreet sale of more than €1bn of weapons in the past four years to Middle Eastern countries that are known to ship arms to Syria, an investigation has found.Â

J. Wallace, TBT
Christians fleeing Middle East nations with a history of terrorism would need to produce verifiable church records to prove who they are in order to enter the United States, under a new immigration plan U.S. Senate candidate Carlos Beruff unveiled on Tuesday.

Sam Heller, The Century Foundation
Earlier this month outrage flared among Syrian rebels and opposition activists when the Nusra Front kidnapped the commander of the Liberation Army, one of the largest U.S.-backed rebel factions in Syria's north. It seemed like another instance of Syria's Al Qaeda affiliate crushing a smaller, pro-Western rival, systematically eliminating alternatives to its jihadi brand.

Vijay Joshi, Associated Press
VIENTIANE, Laos (AP) — Daring to take on China in a territorial dispute in the South China Sea, the Philippines went to an international tribunal for justice, and won big. But it turned out to be a pyrrhic victory.

Mustafa Akyol, Al-Monitor
Western observers first must understand the severity of Turkey's coup plot and the complexity of the religious group that seems to be behind it.

Pinar Tremblay, Al-Monitor
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan used state-employed imams to rally citizens to denounce the attempted coup July 15, highlighting the strength of Turkey's Religious Affairs Department.

Economist
Xi Jinping tries to contain public fury over the South China Sea

Matthew Rojansky, WP Review
A war between Russia and the United States is more likely today than at any time since the worst years of the Cold War. This may sound implausible or exaggerated to policymakers, journalists and the wider public. Yet the fact remains that increasing deployments by both sides, coupled with severely constrained direct dialogue, mean that dangerous incidents will become far more likely and will be far harder to defuse and de-escalate.

Alexander Motyl, World Affairs Journal
For the first time since Ukraine achieved independence in 1991, the country has an opportunity to break out of Russia's orbit, and transform into a genuinely self-reliant and democratic state.

Tom Rogan, Nat Rev
By all accounts, Father Jacques Hamel's 86 years were defined by honorable service to his congregants and his faith. He served the picturesque town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, perched on a forested bend of the Seine River. But earlier today, two ISIS fanatics entered Father Hamel's church and slit his throat. They also critically injured a nun before being shot dead by French SWAT officers.ISIS's war against humanity rumbles on. But although the investigation has just begun... Читать дальше...

Simon Wren-Lewis, New Statesman
George Osborne's austerity plan – now abandoned by the Tories – was the most costly macroeconomic policy mistake since the 1930s.

Andrei Lankov, NK News
With the current state of affairs the only conceivable way a unification of Korea is likely to be achieved is via the notorious ‘unification by absorption'. While it is considered “politically correct” in South Korea to pretend that unification should and will be achieved as a result of prolonged negotiations and compromises between the two Korean governments, such expectations appear to be completely unfounded pipe-dreams.

Sholto Byrnes, The National
Sholto Byrnes looks at the potential fallout from a chaotic week in Germany.

Nicholas Clairmont, The Atlantic
Why Donald Trump's recent comments on the alliance caused such an uproar.

Dominique Moisi, Project Syndicate
Relentless populist fear-mongering, fed by genuinely terrifying attacks, is making Europeans irrational. Instead of demanding a return to a time before terrorism, Europeans must become more alert to the risks they face – not just to their safety, but also to their values – and work to minimize them.

Mathieu von Rohr, Der Spiegel
Ansbach, Munich, Würzburg, Nice, Brussels -- in light of the many horrific news stories, many are asking: What's the matter with 2016?

George Friedman, Geopolitical Futures
Radical Islamism is a movement, not an organization, which makes it much harder to defeat.

Rodger Baker, Stratfor
After announcing that it would cut communications with the United States, North Korea launched three missiles (two Scuds and a No Dong) last week. In some ways, there is little unexpected in North Korea's actions. Since the early 1990s, the North Korean nuclear and missile programs have been a focus of greater and lesser international attention, and there is no reason to predict that a resolution satisfactory to the United States (or North Korea) will emerge any time soon. Читать дальше...