Новости за 11.08.2016

Greg Grandin, The Nation
Kissinger is a unique monster. He stands not as a bulwark against Donald Trump's feared recklessness and immorality but as his progenitor. As Richard Nixon's aide-de-camp, Kissinger helped plan and execute a murderous, illegal foreign policy—in Southeast and South Asia, Southern Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America—as reckless and immoral as anything Trump now portends. Millions died as a result of his actions. Kissinger and Nixon threatened to use nuclear weapons... Читать дальше...

John McLaughlin, Ozy
Nominees typically get them, but the tradition could well end. Our senior contributor revisits the subject of intelligence briefings for Trump.

Terence Corcoran, National Post
Ontario giving its health minister the power to do anything as long as it can be said to be in the 'public interest.'

Keith Johnson & John Hudson, FP

Washington and its allies are insisting that the relationship with Turkey is as healthy as ever, despite Erdogan moving into Putin's embrace.

Hassan Isilow, Anadolu

The ANC, which had won support for nearly two decades for its role in ending white minority rule, is being forced to negotiate with opposition parties to form coalitions for the first time.

Andrew Kenny, Spectator
The 1994 election rubber-stamped liberation. This year's local elections, though, marked a real break with racial voting.

Sonia Nazario, New York Times
Smart investments in Honduras are succeeding. This offers a striking rebuke to the rising isolationists in American politics. A Pew Research Center poll in April found that most Americans think the United States should “deal with its own problems” while others deal with theirs “as best they can,” a sentiment that's at the core of Donald J. Trump's “America First” slogan and “build a wall” campaign. Many seem to have lost their faith in American power.

Konrad Yakabuski, Globe and Mail
He vowed the conflict wouldn't become a U.S.-Russia ‘proxy war,' but it is. And Putin is ahead of the game.

Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg View
Russian claims that Ukraine planned terror attacks in Crimea are a warning to Kiev's Western allies.

Nicholas Kristof, New York Times
A crazed gunman's attack on an Orlando club in June, killing 49 people, resulted in blanket news coverage and national trauma. Now imagine that such a massacre unfolds more than five times a day, seven days a week, unceasingly for five years, totaling perhaps 470,000deaths. That is Syria. Yet even as the Syrian and Russian governments commit war crimes, bombing hospitals and starving civilians, President Obama and the world seem to shrug.

David Craig, RealClearDefense
Dating back to the writings of Sun Tzu and Carl von Clausewitz, civil-military relations have long been the discourse of nation states.

George Friedman, Geopolitical Futures
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an had a meeting on Tuesday. It is not clear what precisely came of it, but it is clear what is at stake. Russia is a weakening power where the state of the economy is now the main issue, and the question of Ukraine remains at the center of its strategic concerns. Turkey is an emerging power whose current internal crisis is being managed effectively, if brutally. Both face an enormously powerful United States... Читать дальше...

Steven Cook & Michael Koplow, Wall Street Journal
The meeting this week between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin and their vow to expand bilateral relations is the latest sign of deteriorating U.S.-Turkish relations since Turkey's failed coup last month.

Robert Fisk, Independent
So the Sultan travels to see the Tsar at the royal seat of St Petersburg. And the Caliph of Damascus will watch from Syria with the conviction that Ba'ath Party policy has once again proved its worth. The policy? Wait. And wait. And wait.

Dalia Marin, Bruegel
Austrian firms invested heavily in Central and Eastern Europe. They offshored the parts of the value chain that required specialized skills and produced valuable research. This resulted in lowered growth in Austria.

Mikhail Fishman, Moscow Times
Vladimir Putin's public image is transforming into that of a warlord. That's his major political asset at home, the new pillar of his popularity, and that's how his countrymen increasingly expect him to act and react on the global scene.

Tony Brenton, Telegraph
t is good news that Theresa May has spoken to Vladimir Putin, and that they have agreed to meet at next month's G20 Summit in China. Our relations have been at a counterproductive low for far too long. A thaw is long overdue.Â

Frederic Wehrey, New Yorker
An array of forces has labored to evict the Islamic State from the coastal town of Sirte, its strongest and most strategic base.

K. DeYoung & H. Naylor, WaPo
As Russia and U.S. negotiate, fighting intensifies and civilians are caught in the middle of a humanitarian disaster.

A. Abu Amer, Al-Mon.
Egyptian-Palestinian relations are tense after the rapprochement between Egypt and Israel as questions arise about the future of Egypt's role in the Palestinian cause.

Martina Meister, Worldcrunch
Is the Islamization of Europe underway? In his dark novel "2084: The End of the World," Algerian writer Boualem Sansal explores an Islamist world dictatorship. In this extract from an interview with Die Welt, he urges Germany to wake up to the threat posed by radical Islam.