Новости за 30.11.2016

Jacques Lafitte & Denis MacShane, Politico EU
In France, the protest vote is less attractive now that the Americans and Brits have already pulled the trigger.

Clinton Bailey, Haaretz
Lebanese Shi'ites welcomed Israel's invasion with flowers. But we dismissed any possible alliance with them, a mistake of critical proportions.

Eli Lake, Bloomberg View
The war on "violent extremism" is ending. The new targets are parties abroad and nonprofits at home.

Juan Cole, Informed Comment
Al-Assad did not disguise his glee when Trump was elected.But Russia and al-Assad are not willing to risk Trump changing his mind, what with all the hawks milling around him and on his new cabinet. For many hard line Republicans like Michael Pompeo (CIA) and Michael Flynn (NSA), Iran is the next war over the horizon, and al-Assad is seen as a strategic asset to Iran.

Geoffrey Nice & Francis Wade, Foreign Policy
The world can no longer look away from the intensifying assault on Burma's Rohingya minority.

Anna Sauerbrey, New York Times
Hillary Clinton made her campaign about defending America against the evils of populism and retrograde nationalism; Ms. Merkel will pretend there is no such war.

Richard Javad Heydarian, TNI
The United States will have to allay concerns among allies lest it risks losing the mantle of leadership to China for good.

Andrew Browne, Wall St. Journal
Post election, expect a nasty trade stand-off -- though hardly a full rupture.

Suzanne Scholte, WT

America may not want to be the world's leader, but if America does not lead, the countries who step into that role absolutely do not have the best interests of the citizens of this world, and second, we can best avoid war and achieve peace in the world when America is strong. While rebuilding America's defense will be the job of the secretary of Defense, the secretary of State must rekindle that role of American leadership. I strongly believe that John Bolton would be the best choice to do that.

Julian Pecquet, Al-Monitor
The U.S. secretary of state is on a mission to protect President Barack Obama's foreign policy legacy -- and his own.

Paul Roderick Gregory, Forbes
Putin's 'fake news' has justified the first change in national borders by force of the postwar period, for invading two sovereign nations (Ukraine and Georgia), for Russian intervention in the Middle East, and for staging nuclear missiles on NATO borders. Putin's 'another world' has brought the world dangerously close to nuclear confrontation. 'Fake news' attacks on Clinton are small fry by comparison.

A. Nardelli & C. Silverman, BuzzFeed
The Five Star Movement controls a network of official sites and supposedly independent news outlets that spread misinformation across the internet.

Kenneth Roth, New York Review of Books
All wars are frightening for those stuck in the middle, but the five-and-a-half-year conflict in Syria has proven to be especially horrific. What kind of policy might President-elect Donald Trump adopt toward it? How different would his approach be from Barack Obama's? Despite his early rhetoric about joining with the Russian and Syrian governments to fight the self-declared Islamic State, or ISIS, Trump is likely to encounter a far more complicated terrain than he seems to understand... Читать дальше...

Max Boot, Commentary
President Obama refuses to refer to a “global war on terror” as his predecessor did, or to a war on “radical Islam” as his successor does. He has nevertheless presided over a robust set of counter-terror measures that have been implemented across the world. The CIA and the military's Special Operations Command have continued what they started after 9/11, waging a covert war to kill or capture terrorist leaders belonging to groups ranging from al-Qaeda, ISIS, or al-Shabaab. Читать дальше...

Murat Yetkin, Hurriyet Daily News
The problematic relationship between Turkey and the European Union is heading toward a strategic impasse

Loris Zanatta, Worldcrunch
Not unlike a zealous Christian, Castro learned from Catholicism a dogmatism and opposition to pluralism that he imposed on his island nation for decades.

Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Atlantic
One of the saddest ironies of my own history is that the United States might have achieved its goals in Southeast Asia without ever going to war.

Tej Parikh, Asia Times
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Adam MacDonald, East Asia Forum
On 7 October 2016, President Barack Obama signed an executive order lifting most remaining economic sanctions on Myanmar. The move comes as the two states progressively normalise relations, though restrictions remain against doing business with Myanmar's military — the Tatmadaw — and its associated economic conglomerates and industries. Obama's decision was applauded by many in the US business community for allowing US companies to compete on an... Читать дальше...

Zarrar Khuhro, Dawn
The US is taking a page out of our playbook.

Daniel Davis, National Interest
No battle was more intense.