Новости за 01.08.2016

Michael Weiss, Daily Beast
In a bizarre mind-meld that could only happen today, Assange is refusing to say whether he got the hacked DNC emails from Russia, and Trump is defending Putin.

Myers & Kramer, NYT

Few political consultants have had a client fail quite as spectacularly as Paul Manafort's did in Ukraine in the winter of 2014

Louis Fishman, Observer
Istanbul, the city I once found so much happiness in, has become a sad place. This year I met with friends, both Turkish and international, who are packing up and leaving in the face of continued instability and a clampdown on freedoms. My evenings on balconies were replaced by conversations with academics worried about their future; signing a pro-peace petition has landed some of our colleagues behind bars. More and more I heard the question: so where do you think is better, Canada or the US? Читать дальше...

Jeff Barak, Jerusalem Post
The prime minister knows Israel needs a US president who is measured, consistent and credible, all qualities Trump lacks.

The Economist
More than war even, climate change is making the region uninhabitable.

Brian Groom, FT
Wooing Chinese investment was central to the former chancellor of the exchequer's plan to harness the collective strength of northern England's cities and so to rebalance the economy and devolve powers from Whitehall. If Hinkley is cancelled and a promised “golden era” of UK-China commercial relations comes to nought, the Powerhouse will look underfunded.

Fabio Rafael Fiallo, RealClearWorld
Latin America's hard-left -- the left enraptured by Fidel Castro's 57-year-old Cuban Revolution and Hugo Chavez's 21st Century Socialism -- has been losing terrain, indeed collapsing, both on efficiency and on moral grounds.

Stephen Bush, New Statesman
What does visiting Wallasey, Pontypridd and Islington North reveal about Labour's future?

Jacob Shapiro, Geopolitical Futures
A purge can be a sign of strength, a sign of weakness or both. Some purges help to clear the road toward consolidating power. Other purges can so cripple a country's institutional powers that the short-term benefits give way to disorder and chaos.

Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in power for nearly a decade and a half, has in recent years invoked the memory of Menderes as part of his own political legacy.

Moshe Arens, Haaretz
Reagan's defense secretary is gone, but the measure he was forced to accept -- the use of U.S. military aid money for procurement in Israel -- may finally be eliminated.

Shawn Snow, Nat'l Interest
Despite rhetoric emanating from the twenty-four-hour media cycle, the basic fundamentals of Afghanistan's conflict have changed little since the rise of the Taliban in 1994. After the Soviet Union's withdrawal in 1989 and the ending of financial assistance in 1992, Afghanistan descended into financial oblivion. The very foundation of Afghanistan's economic system and livelihood prior to the Soviet Union's intervention was primarily dependent on muscle labor and rural subsistence farming. Читать дальше...

Matthew Goodwin, Daily Telegraph
The resignation of Nigel Farage has thrown UKIP into a fresh crisis.

Katrin Kuntz, Spiegel
The Islamic State is holding thousands of young boys captive in Syria and Iraq, where it is teaching them the Koran and how to become deadly child soldiers.

Thomas Walkom, Toronto Star
Canadian politicians may hope Trump and Clinton are fibbing when they take anti-trade positions. But what if they are not? More to the point, what if domestic American politics around trade make a rethinking of NAFTA inevitable?

Enrico Letta, Politico EU
Our political system in Old Europe, crisis ridden though it is in other ways, has a unique and unrepeatable opportunity to regenerate itself. We must not permit ourselves to waste it.

Michael Rubin, Commentary
One of the defining characteristics of Recep Tayyip Erdo?an's Turkey is its complete obliviousness to the precedent its leadership creates. Five years ago, for example, Erdo?an visited the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and said, “It is a natural and constitutional right for Macedonia to use that name [Macedonia]…. Macedonia's decision to use its name should be respected.” On this, I happen to agree with Erdo?an, but does Erdo?an extend the same right to Kurds to call their homeland Kurdistan? Читать дальше...

Lisel Hintz, Boston Globe
Ankara has used the failed coup to crush all those who oppose Erdo?an.

Nesrine Malik, Foreign Policy
Instead of calling Sudan's Omar al-Bashir out for his abuses, the EU has hired him to police Europe-bound migrants.

Fred Hiatt, Washington Post
The dire results of President Obama's experiment in downsizing U.S. leadership are obvious overseas, but there's a damaging consequence at home that gets less attention: The mistake builds on itself. It is the opposite of self-correcting.

Konrad Yakabuski, G&M
Terrorist attacks may have the country on edge, but the GOP nominee's off-the-cuff remarks were definitely not welcome.

Eli Lake, Bloomberg
China, Iran and North Korea have all been sanctioned or indicted. The Kremlin gets a pass.

Bert Koenders, The Independent
After five years of conflict, it is hard to imagine that the war in Syria can get any worse. But it can get worse, much worse. On 14Â July, President Bashar al-Assad's forces captured the high ground overlooking Castello Road, the last major access route to what once was Syria's economic centre and largest city. Three hundred thousand people are now effectively besieged in Aleppo.Â

Roy Gutman, Daily Beast
The Russians are pursuing a strategy lifted from their playbook in Grozny during the last Chechen war, and Aleppo could soon become the new “most destroyed city on earth.”

Antony Loewenstein, The National
The global defence industry is posting record profits as Europe rushes to deal with a refugee crisis.