Новости за 12.11.2016

Poppy McPherson, Foreign Policy
One year after a historic election put a civilian government in charge, the country's army is using brutal methods to regain its popularity.

Ariane Tabatabai, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Throughout his campaign, Donald Trump made it clear that he opposed the nuclear deal reached in July 2015 between six world powers and Iran, which curbs Tehran's nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief. With his election as president of the United States, Iran, US negotiating partners, the broader international community, and US adversaries alike are all wondering what will become of the agreement.

Aaron D. Miller & Richard Sokolsky, CNN
All presidents, Jonathan Alter has written, are blind dates. And since there's no school for training chief executives, you never know exactly what you're going to get.

Julian Pecquet, Al-Monitor
Proponents of the nuclear pact fear the worst under a Trump administration.

William Broad, New York Times

Michael Rubin, American Enterprise Institute
President-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the so-called Iran nuclear deal, “the worst deal ever negotiated” and a “disaster.”He's right.

James Forsyth, The Sun
THERESA MAY now has a bunch of Trumps in her Brexit negotiating hand. Donald Trump's victory has put Britain in a far stronger position heading into its exit talks with the EU. Brexit's critics use…

Mohammed Nuruzzaman, Nat'l Interest
Tehran is gradually shedding its defensive posture in favor of an offensive disposition.

Elaine Grossman, The Globalist
Will new intelligence undermine Iran's nuclear pact with the West — even before Donald Trump has a chance to scrap it?

Guy Verhofstadt, Project Syndicate
Donald Trump's presidency will lead to an epic geopolitical shift: For the first time since 1941, Europe cannot rely on the US defense umbrella. Now that the EU is on its own, it must quickly build its own European Defense Community and develop an independent security strategy.

Der Spiegel
Donald Trump's election has put establishment politicians in Europe in a state of panic. In Berlin, nobody knows what the US president-elect intends to do. In Brussels, fears are growing he will put wind into the sails of the growing anti-EU populist movement. BY SPIEGEL Staff

Edward Short, Weekly Standard
"Democracy has not saved us from a distinct decline in the standard of our public men," the Liberal prime minister William Gladstone told his biographer, John Morley, towards the end of his life. And he had no doubt that "For all this deterioration one man and one man only is responsible: Disraeli. He is the Grand Corruptor."No one can have paid even cursory attention to the presidential election that just ended without hearing echoes of this same lament from every quarter... Читать дальше...

Robert Kaplan, Washington Post
Realists embrace truth. His statements reveal a basic disregard of facts.