Новости за 13.10.2016

Ishaan Tharoor, WaPo
What happened long before Russia hacked the DNC's emails.

Azriel Bermant, National Interest
The Reagan administration's failure to support Peres in his peace efforts with Jordan's King Hussein increasingly looks like a costly blunder.

Liz Peek, Fox News
Hillary Clinton actually does have ties to the Kremlin – ties which, had they been reported with any honesty, would have become an issue in the presidential campaign.

John Feffer, TomDispatch
The world according to Donald Trump is very dark indeed. The American economy has tanked. Mexico has sent a horde of criminals over the border to steal jobs and rape women. The Islamic State, cofounded by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, is taking over the globe. “Our country's going to hell,” he declared during the Republican primaries. It's “like medieval times,” he suggested during the second presidential debate. “We haven't seen anything like this... Читать дальше...

Yousseff & Harris, Daily Beast
Democrats accuse WikiLeaks of working with Moscow to elect Trump by leaking embarrassing emails. Are they getting ahead of U.S. intelligence?

Bruce Blair, New York Times
As the 1973 Yom Kippur war between Israel and neighboring Arab states intensified, I was in an underground missile launch center in Montana with a crewmate when we received an emergency message to prepare for nuclear war with the Soviet Union. Only at the president's behest would we ever turn keys to fire up to 50 nuclear-armed missiles that could extinguish millions of lives in less than an hour. Once we closed our eight-ton blast door to begin alert duty, we took orders from no one else.

Walter Russell Mead, The American Interest
King Bhumibol's passing makes the task of American foreign policy in Asia more complicated than ever.

David Klion, World Politics Review
In last month's elections in Belarus, opposition members picked up seats in parliament for the first time since 1996. For most of its independence from the Soviet Union, Belarus has been under the firm control of Alexander Lukashenko, frequently described as Europe's last dictator.

Eli Lake, Bloomberg View
High expectations from the U.S.A did not lead the Kremlin to better behavior. Quite the opposite.

Sebastian Dullien, RCW
When the European heads of state and government meet at the European Council later this month and discuss the European Union's trade policy, it will be very hard to gloss over one obvious fact: European trade policy lies in shambles.

Edward Goldberg, RealClearWorld
One of the many strange things about the current U.S. election is that regarding foreign policy, the fight is over whether or not to accept the reality that the world has changed since Madeline Albright coined the term “indispensable nation” as secretary of state 18 years ago.

Alison Smale, New York Times
COPENHAGEN — As the European Union ponders a future without Britain, its No. 2 economy and strongest military power, Hamlet's state of Denmarkseems an appropriate place to pose anew his existential question: In the 21st century, is the bloc to be, or not to be?Â

Joris Luyendijk, Guardian
With European goodwill drying up and the pound plunging against the euro, promises of a pain-free departure stand exposed as delusional ravings

Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Europe
A park close to the European Parliament in Brussels has been given a face-lift, if that is the right term. Apart from being spruced up, the area now contains new sculptures in the form of twelve ostriches. And yes, the ostriches have their heads stuck in the sand. If Europe as well as the United States weren't suffering such a malaise as they are today, the symbolism of these birds wouldn't matter.

Stratfor
Uzbekistan is arguably the most strategic country in Central Asia. With 31 million people living within its borders, it is the region's most populous country and the only one that shares a border with each of the four other Central Asian nations. Uzbekistan contains the majority of the Fergana Valley, Central Asia's agricultural heartland, and is a major producer, exporter and transit state of natural gas flowing to Russia and China.

Brandon Christensen, Notes on Liberty
Check out Adam Smith complaining about the rent-seeking that the UK's North American colonies were practicing back in 1776: The expence of the ordinary peace establishment of the colonies amo…

Rachel Nolan, Harper's
In El Salvador, people are less afraid of Zika than of what everyone seems to call “the situation.” As in, we can't go there because of “the situation.” Doubling down on euphemism, “the situation” is “complicated” in that part of town. “Complicated” means that gangs are busy killing each other there—you'd better take the long way around.

Tom Corben, The Diplomat
As Wellington pursues improvement in its relations with Washington, challenges remain.

Fraser Nelson, Spectator
It's tempting for a Brit to look over the Atlantic and smugly conclude that, after 240 years, the American experiment of self government has failed — that this ingenious country could not even find two decent people to run for the White House, and has instead laid on a political freak show that's best watched from behind the sofa. British politics has its faults, we say, but we're nowhere near as bad as that.

Grant Rumley & Mor Yahalom, Foreign Affairs
The latest breakdown between Fatah and Hamas should remove any doubt about the potential for reconciliation between the two largest Palestinian political parties. Both sides viewed the municipal elections as a zero-sum contest. Abbas and his Fatah party feared the Gaza-based Hamas party winning any city councils in the West Bank, and Hamas feared the same for Fatah candidates in Gaza.

Michael Schroeder, Washington Post
Meet António Guterres.