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None of the Big Three can be seriously threatened without triggering direct resistance and the security guarantees of
allies.
It will also demand support from European partners and
allies
– particularly the US – which should be reminded of the geopolitical importance of avoiding such an outcome.
After discouraging all US
allies
from joining the AIIB, President Barack Obama’s administration watched as Great Britain led a raft of Western European countries, followed by Australia and South Korea, into doing just that.
President Lee’s
allies
have rallied, rightly, to his cause, but even we recognize that his restraint cannot be unending.
While the US is pivoting to the East, leaving old
allies
like Saudi Arabia and Egypt deeply resentful, China is pivoting westward.
Its annual exports to Turkey total $23 billion, and now include military supplies, such as a missile-defense system that is not compatible with those of Turkey’s NATO
allies.
If China’s penetration into the Middle East persists at the current pace, it might even be able to obstruct the flow of energy resources to America’s Asian
allies.
In other words, to the extent that Trump just wants
allies
to reduce their exports to the US, this can be accommodated by EU producers increasing prices and pocketing the higher revenues – never mind that US consumers of steel would thereby be subsidizing foreign steel producers.
From the perspective of the allies, they involve more than the dramatic fate of the expelled Kosovars and Balkan stability.
His hope is that some EU members’ interest in securing Russian gas supplies during the winter will cause them to forget their allies’ security interests – a classic divide-and-rule strategy, served chilled.
And, indeed, from Trump’s perspective, the highlights of his recent trip abroad were signing a $110 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia, berating other NATO members for their supposedly insufficient military spending, and rejecting the pleas of US
allies
to continue in the fight global warming.
Aside from threatening to withdraw the United States from the North American Free Trade Agreement and to start a trade war with China, Trump praises Russian President Vladimir Putin and suggests that America should not honor its commitment to defend its NATO
allies
unless they pay more for that protection.
Trump is right about one thing: NATO
allies
should pull their weight.
What is surprising is that, given the differences now arising between the US and its
allies
- the word schism might not be inappropriate - Mr. Bush's meetings with Europe's leaders proceeded so smoothly.
Today, when the central fear in Western countries is of international instability and terrorism, the NATO
allies
are far less united in how to respond.
The US spends far more on defense than its European allies, and as a result its military capability is different in quality as well as in quantity.
Instead the Bush administration decided to wage the war essentially on its own; for this kind of small war, it really did not need its European allies, although in the latter stages of the fighting, French Mirage jets, and British, German, Danish, and Norwegian special forces troops were active in battles in the mountains along the Afghanistan/Pakistan border.
Not all of these reasons are admirable: during the Cold War some European
allies
became accustomed to freeloading on America; some were double freeloaders by choosing neutrality.
For their part, North Korea's elite understands that they have no true
allies
at present, not even in Beijing.
Some of America’s allies, now professing outrage at disclosures of US spying, have been known to do the same thing to the US.
According to the US, when it inspects a non-American’s e-mail, it is searching for terrorist connections, and has often shared the findings with its
allies.
Meanwhile, Saudi officials have accused the US of selling out its
allies
for little security in return.
The ban treaty would prohibit so-called nuclear sharing arrangements, whereby
allies
of nuclear weapon states could store weapons on these states’ territory.
Yet America was great before Trump, and his behavior – riding roughshod over international agreements, trashing allies, and pursuing protectionist trade measures – will only undermine that greatness by, among other things, depleting the country’s formidable stock of soft power.
The center-right Christian Democrats and their
allies
still have the support of about 33% of the electorate; the center-left Social Democrats have 20% support; and the Green Party is backed by some 13%.
Potential
allies
are far too poor.
Without the participation of America’s allies, re-imposing sanctions will have little impact, beyond spurring Iran to restart and even accelerate its nuclear program.
With a couple of notable exceptions, the mediocrity of most of Leung’s appointees elicited sighs even from his political
allies.
Because they attract followers, governments must take them into account both as
allies
and adversaries.
The fight against ISIS now risks provoking further infighting among supposed US
allies
in Syria.
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