Новости за 20.12.2016

Hudson, McLeary & De Luce, FP
Meanwhile, Pentagon brass say Moscow is the No. 1 threat to the United States.

Soner Cagaptay, Washington Post
The country faces a toxic cocktail of political polarization and threats of violence that could erupt into a catastrophe.

Allan Golombek, RCM
It's easy to understand why Carrier's decision under pressure to spare about 800 of its Indianapolis workers seemed like great news. The bad news? Over the next few years many of those jobs will be...

A. Gorlach & C. Weiss, World Post
In an interview, Harvard professor Joseph Nye warns that Donald Trump's “America First” posture could undermine the liberal world order.

Emanuele Scimia, Asia Times
France's strategic interests in the Pacific are anything but ephemeral.

Kerry Brown, The Diplomat
China's system is not designed to acknowledge the reality of failure.

Yanis Varoufakis, Project Syndicate
The problem with Greece is that everyone -- the government, the European Commission, the European Central Bank, Germany, and the IMF -- is lying. To end the country's crisis once and for all requires a unilateral moratorium on all repayments until substantial debt restructuring and reasonable fiscal targets are agreed.

Leon Aron, War on the Rocks
By all indications, the Russian jihad continues to remain alive and dangerous.

Julian Borger, Guardian
Putin and Erdo?an are likely to find common ground in their desire to blame third parties for death of Andrei Karlov.

David Frum, The Atlantic
Assassinations can make good excuses for military conflict, but they don't cause it.

Peter Ricketts, Guardian
Someone has to convince the president-elect to stand by his allies and resist a bargain with Putin. That should be our top priority

Garry Kasparov, Wall Street Journal
A quarter-century ago, on Dec. 25, 1991, as the last Soviet premier, Mikhail Gorbachev, resigned after a final attempt to keep the Communist state alive, I was so optimistic for the future. That year and the years leading up to that moment were a period when anything felt possible. The ideals of freedom and democracy seemed within the reach of the people of the Soviet Union.Â

Max Fisher, New York Times
Turkey and Russia, whose up-and-down relationship has helped shape the Syrian war and its related crises, shared a new trauma on Monday after an off-duty Turkish police officer assassinated Russia's ambassador.Â

Barin Kayaoglu, Al-Monitor
Turkish media outlets are scrambling to cover the killing of Russia's ambassador to Turkey, a break from their calls to attack the Kurdistan Workers Party's bases in response to the suicide attack that killed 13 Turkish conscripts on leave in the central Anatolian town of Kayseri.

Scott Lehigh, Boston Globe
As we made our way through the Christmas market in Munich last week, we wondered: What if terrorists chose it as a target?

Josh Marshall, TPM
The shocking assassination of Russian Ambassador Andrei Karlov today in Ankara, amidst a rising tide of global violence and instability, has pitched people's thoughts to events in Sarajevo, 102 years ago, when the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the crown of Austria-Hungary, provided the trigger for World War I. Let me say, briefly, that I don't think this is that kind of event. But one key to understanding why today's assassination is not like that other... Читать дальше...

Hugh Hewitt, Washington Post
Starting with retired generals Mattis and Kelly, the president-elect has assembled an experienced team.

Ian Bremmer, National Interest
The greatest injuries tend to be self-inflicted.

Aaron David Miller, FP
The appointment of David Friedman might be seen as a honeymoon in Jerusalem, but itâ??s a bold divorce from decades of U.S.-Israel policy.

George Friedman, Geopolitical Futures
The U.S. should focus on real power and not fall for bluffs.

Adam Twardowski, Small Wars Journal
For students of European history, Germany's contemporary profile as a bastion of liberal values and globalization is nothing short of a miracle.