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From time to time, US public sentiment has opposed playing an active role in the world and fulfilling our commitments to
allies
– and, indeed, to the cause of freedom.
Today, nations that were members of the Soviet Union’s Warsaw Pact, as well as some of the former Soviet Republics – countries that we used to call “captive nations” – are valued members of NATO and represent some of our most stalwart
allies
in the War on Terror.
Finally, they point to the wait-and-see attitude of Egypt’s friends and
allies.
By countering global security threats that emanate from Asia, they are protecting their North Atlantic
allies.
Before the Bush administration, various American presidents worked hard to change the US relationship with Latin America from one of hegemon and dominated states to something like the relations that exist with the European
allies.
In fact, without patent protections, the firm and its
allies
claim, medical research would shudder to a halt.
Trump and his
allies
have been strenuously trying to talk the country into liking the tax cuts, which are front-loaded to help people before the 2018 midterm elections, in which the entire House of Representatives, a third of the Senate, and many governorships and state legislatures will be up for grabs.
But, despite US Secretary of State John Kerry’s admonition that Russia’s occupation of Crimea “is not twenty-first-century, G-8, major-nation behavior,” the United States and its
allies
are struggling to hold on to the postwar twentieth-century world.
China will blame the trade imbalance on America’s ban on high-tech exports to China, deny engaging in currency manipulation, call on the US and its
allies
in East Asia to negotiate with North Korea without preconditions, insist on China’s entitlement as a developing country to an exemption from emissions caps on CO2, and refute criticism of its human rights record.
One reason why the JCPOA did not cover non-nuclear issues is that several other partners and
allies
– namely, China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the European Union – were involved, and each had its own perspective and objectives.
Saudi Arabia’s solutions have often controverted the objectives of its American
allies.
No matter how many bombs the US and its
allies
drop, the Saudi-financed madrassas will continue to indoctrinate tomorrow’s jihadists.
The US needs to prepare for it, especially in shoring up partners and allies, and ensuring as best it can that Ukraine is Russia’s last victim, not its first.
In 1972, President Richard Nixon unilaterally imposed tariffs on America’s
allies
without warning, violated the framework of the International Monetary Fund, and pursued an unpopular war in Vietnam.
Questions, justified or not, about America's ability to retain its dominant position in Asia's security architecture in the medium to long term – together with the rise of isolationist sentiment within the US – have spurred its regional
allies
and partners, including stalwart friends like Australia, to hedge their strategic bets.
There is no overarching explanation for Obama’s successive Middle East failures, but there are a few factors worth considering: the increase in the number of asymmetrical conflicts, in which the traditional use of force is largely ineffective; increasingly blurred lines between difficult
allies
and intransigent adversaries; and major political differences between a centrist US president and a Congress that is dominated more than ever by extreme ideas.
Bankers and their economist
allies
may rue this, but it is as it should be.
All parties to the conflict – President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, the anti-Assad forces supported by the United States and its allies, and the Islamic State – have committed, and continue to commit, serious war crimes.
The US and its regional
allies
tried to nudge Assad from power in the spring of 2011, thinking that he would fall quickly like Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak and Tunisia’s Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
But the US did in fact act to topple Assad, albeit mostly covertly and through allies, especially Saudi Arabia and Turkey (though neither country needed much prodding to intervene).
The US and its allies, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, started the war in 2011 in order to overthrow Assad’s regime.
America’s allies, including Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, were interested in replacing Assad’s Alawite regime in Syria with a Sunni-led regime (Alawites are a branch of Shia Islam).
More important, the regime had powerful allies, notably Iran and Russia.
The US and its
allies
flooded Syria with Sunni jihadists, just as the US had flooded Afghanistan in the 1980s with Sunni jihadists (the Mujahideen) that later became Al Qaeda.
When even
allies
are treated with disrespect – recall George W. Bush’s infamous shout of “Yo, Blair,” as if then-British Prime Minister Tony Blair were some cowhand – people naturally wonder whether their country, too, is deemed subservient.
Until Byrnes’ “Speech of Hope,” the
Allies
were committed to converting “…Germany into a country primarily agricultural and pastoral in character.”
Prior to Byrnes’ speech, and for a while afterwards, America’s
allies
were not keen to restore hope to the defeated Germans.
NATO has also finally started engaging in defense planning and other forms of strategic reassurance for its
allies
in Central and Eastern Europe, which are unsettled by Russia’s new assertiveness.
Indeed, many of the region’s territorial disputes pit China against US
allies.
It got the United Nations Security Council to agree to impose increasingly onerous economic sanctions – and roped
allies
into even stronger sanctions.
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