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Children of FrenchmenOne puzzling and often overlooked feature of the France that elected Nicolas Sarkozy as its new president, and that is now poised to give his political
allies
a powerful parliamentary mandate, is its mix of private optimism and public pessimism.
Regional rivalries and past history mean that Ethiopia has few natural
allies
in the region.
NATO faced off against the Warsaw Pact, created by the Soviet Union and its
allies
in 1955.
First, there is the bitter legacy of Iran-France relations during Fabius’s stint as Prime Minister in 1984-1986, a period during which 96 foreigners – many of them French – were kidnapped by Iran’s
allies
in Lebanon.
An emerging economy poised to become a regional power, it has exchanged fire with its neighbor to the south, Syria, and has called on its NATO
allies
to bolster its security.
The US and its
allies
must do the same in the South China Sea.
The US certainly has an interest in gaining deeper analytical insight into its European allies’ decision-making than can be gained by simply calling, say, German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
These range from the lack of professionalism implied by allowing contractors to conduct such sensitive work to America’s hands-off approach toward certain allies, like the United Kingdom and New Zealand, while relegating many of its other
allies
– including most of the European Union – to surveillance-worthy status.
In addition, US diplomatic and military links encourage America’s
allies
to hold dollars.
Governments have reason to be confident that the reserve-currency country will make servicing debt held by its
allies
a high priority.
In return, those allies, by holding its liabilities, can help to lower the issuer’s borrowing costs.
One can imagine that the financial behavior of these and other countries would change dramatically, with adverse implications for the dollar’s exchange rate and US borrowing costs, were America’s close military alliances with its
allies
to fray.
The first, heard mostly from executives at leading global banks and their allies, is that the system is safer than it has ever been.
As a result, they will not credibly deter China or reassure US
allies.
As Admiral Harry Harris cautioned last month while departing as head of the US Indo-Pacific Command, “Without focused involvement and engagement by the US and our
allies
and partners, China will realize its dream of hegemony in Asia.”
America needs allies, and is not preoccupied by their potential independent strength.
Advocates of dialogue with the Iranians and their Syrian allies, like former United States Secretary of State James Baker, labor under the delusion that they can actually reach an understanding that can enable a graceful US exit from Iraq and help stabilize that wounded country.
America cannot realistically expect its
allies
– let alone countries like Iran and Venezuela, with which its relations are strained – to adopt principled foreign policies when Middle East Realpolitik distorts its own foreign policy.
In the longer term, were shale gas and oil to satisfy US demand, Canadian oil could wean America’s
allies
from their Middle East oil addiction, giving them new foreign-policy options, too.
Preparing for President TrumpLONDON – As America’s friends and
allies
look on in astonishment at the all-but-certain prospect of a contest between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in November’s US presidential election, they need to do more than just wring their hands.
In every US presidential election in modern times, America’s friends and
allies
have had their private preferences.
Allies
will have to pay more for their defense.
So how can friends and
allies
prepare for a President Trump?
There are two sorts of things that friends and
allies
can and should do to prepare for the worst.
America’s friends and
allies
need to start preparing for a less friendly America.
The nuclear agreement with Iran remains intact, and the other countries involved – including US
allies
– seem to want to keep it that way.
Even US
allies
have been bracing for a trade war.
Iran pursued mass prosecutions of government critics following President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s controversial reelection in 2009, and it now appears that some of Ahmadinejad’s
allies
may themselves become collateral damage in his conflict with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei, facing politically motivated criminal trials.
Even if the West and its local
allies
(the Kurds, the Syrian opposition, Jordan, and other Sunni Arab countries) could agree about who would provide the bulk of ground troops, ISIS has already reshaped its strategy.
That means a constant and resolute effort to stop the caliphate’s expansion, cut off its sources of finance, deepen and expand intelligence cooperation among credible allies, end the oil-rich monarchies’ collusion with terrorist groups, and encourage reform (without engaging in grand state-building projects).
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