Новости за 24.10.2016

Doug Bandow, Japan Times
The U.S. should drop its expensive and risky commitment to go to war on behalf of a nation largely irrelevant to American security.

James Ball, BuzzFeed
WikiLeaks has never had a problem with Russia: not then, not now.

Doug Saunders, Globe and Mail
It was an eight-year struggle to hammer out a trade deal to link Canada and the 28-member European Union. Then came Wallonia.

Tim Stanley, Daily Telegraph
Sweden used to regard itself as an open, tolerant country -- and it had a fine record of integrating newcomers. But now it is closing its borders, rejecting asylum applications and sending people home. Nothing has done the country's self-image more harm than its handling of child refugees -- a sad story full of warnings for Britain.

Christoph Reuter, Der Spiegel
The battle for Mosul, a key city for Islamic State, has begun. On one side, a fragile alliance with conflicting political goals, and on the other, a ruthless enemy who might go to extreme lengths to defend the Iraqi metropolis -- incluing chemical weapons.

Ross Clark, Spectator
Assuming there was no change in what was traded across the English Channel – which obviously wouldn't be the case as consumers would start to shop around elsewhere – UK exporters would, under WTO ‘Most Favoured Nation' (MFN) rules, find themselves paying £5.2 billion in tariffs on goods they exported to the rest of the EU. EU exporters, however, would end up paying £12.9 billion worth in tariffs on goods they exported to Britain.

Luis Simon, War on the Rocks
What might Brexit mean for Britain's position in Europe, for the future of European integration and, perhaps more importantly, for Europe's evolving geopolitical architecture?