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The armed groups supported by the US and
allies
since 2011 were assembled under the banner of the Free Syrian Army.
While the US vehemently complains about Russian and Iranian influence in Syria, America and its
allies
have repeatedly violated Syrian sovereignty.
The US and its
allies
should face reality and accept the persistence of Assad’s regime, despicable as it may be.
But the US official delusion that America can call the shots in Syria by choosing who rules, and with which allies, would end.
With Trump’s withdrawal implying that the US and its
allies
have lost the war, Assad already feels emboldened to forge ahead – with Russian and Iranian support – with his plan to recapture the remaining rebel-held territories at all costs.
After establishing “facts on the ground,” Assad and his
allies
would be able to present the world with a fait accompli: Assad remains in power, without making any real concessions to the opposition.
The US and its
allies
successfully navigated the challenge of Europe in the twentieth century without war.
America and its
allies
had four possible solutions to this novel and dangerous problem: preemption, defense, proliferation, and deterrence.
So the West opted to reinforce the status quo, with the US seeking to enhance the credibility of its policy of deterrence in Europe by stating, publicly and frequently, that it would indeed defend its allies, despite the risk that this would lead to an attack on its own territory.
The US and its Asian
allies
have the same four options as the Atlantic Alliance had 60 years ago.
America must withdraw, but the price – for the US, its
allies
in the region, and for the West – remains an open question.
Via their Afghan allies, Pakistan in particular but also Saudi Arabia, Iran, India, and Central Asian countries are embroiled in a fight for influence.
Twelve years later, after the terrorist attacks of 2001, the US and its Western
allies
had to return to fight Al Qaeda and the Taliban, which had turned Afghanistan into a breeding ground of Islamist terrorism.
Syria also has
allies
– most importantly Russia, with its veto-wielding seat on the United Nations Security Council.
For more than a decade, Pakistan and the US were close
allies.
Military action to enforce the international norm against the use of chemical weapons is legitimate and welcome, as was the decision to coordinate the response with
allies
and to threaten additional strikes if chemical weapons were used again.
Smiles on the RhineOn February 23, a day after addressing America’s
allies
in Brussels, President George W. Bush will meet German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in the old city of Mainz on the Rhine.
But it would make an immense difference for Germany’s chances if the US actively supported what is, after all, a reasonable objective of one of its most important
allies.
Kerry speaks of friends and allies, while Bush alienates many of them.
The US characterizes China’s policy as “anti-access area denial”: an effort to keep the US Navy far from the Chinese mainland and therefore from the coasts of America’s
allies
in the region.
But, looking to the future, the challenge for the US and its
allies
will be to deter future generations of Chinese leaders from adopting policies that threaten the West.
British voters could – as our closest friends and allies, from the US to Japan, have advised – choose to remain citizens of the real world.
What is wrong is his approach: instead of recruiting
allies
like Japan and the European Union to put pressure on China, he has angered friend and foe alike with unilateral tariffs and other ill-advised barriers, risking a trade war that would hurt everyone.
That means bolstering allies, rebalancing the energy relationship with Russia, defending the rules of international institutions, and renewing efforts to tackle “unresolved conflicts,” not only in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, but also in Transdniestria and Nagorno Karabakh.
It is a grave mistake to think of Russia, like the Ottoman Empire of a century ago, as a "sick man of Europe," incapable of maintaining its strategic and commercial interests, and to regard its traditional
allies
in the region as available for anyone to poach.
Sir Archibald Wavell, one of Britain’s greatest World War II generals and the penultimate Viceroy of India, wrote in his biography of the WWI Field-Marshal Edmund Allenby, who led the
Allies
in the Levant: “The greatest exploit in the history of horsed cavalry, and possibly their last success on a large scale, had ended within a short distance of the battlefield of Issus, where Alexander the Great first showed how battles could be won.”
To arm the rebel groups is, perhaps inevitably, also to arm their terrorist and mercenary
allies.
One of the EU’s main architects, Jean Monnet, a French diplomat and economist, spent much of World War II in Washington, DC, as a negotiator for the European
allies.
The West should not sacrifice these objectives for others; if
allies
ultimately lose power in popular revolts, such a tradeoff would not have furthered the West’s interests, to say the least.
So any sustained cooperation with the US and its regional
allies
– Japan and South Korea – would only help America to shackle China.
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