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With Obama unwilling – or unable, due to rising political partisanship at home – to take the lead in addressing crises like those in Egypt, Libya, and Syria, challengers to American primacy took heart in 2014, and US
allies
took fright.
Indeed, Libya is increasingly unstable, al-Qaeda is actively engaged in the Sahel (as the fighting in Mali shows), and no one can foresee what will happen in Afghanistan after the US and its NATO
allies
withdraw in 2014.
Because the tariffs are being levied under a provision of US trade law that applies to national security, rather than dumping or import surges, it will be possible to exempt imports from military
allies
in NATO, as well as Japan and South Korea, focusing the tariffs on China and avoiding the risk of a broader trade war.
Unless its international
allies
throw it a lifeline, it risks being swallowed by a sea of disorder that could imperil the entire region.
After the fall of the Iron Curtain, both countries became staunch NATO
allies
even before they joined the EU.
It is therefore vital that the United States and other NATO
allies
speak out now and insist that functioning democratic checks and balances are safeguarded.
Meanwhile, Maduro’s
allies
in Latin America will begin losing or leaving power, as the left relives the region’s centuries-old drama: commodity prices rise and fall, bringing governments with them.
In Asia, the US has been playing a similar role in pushing for multilateral resolution of dangerous bilateral disputes between China and its many neighbors over territories in the East and South China Seas, while at the same time restraining US
allies
who might otherwise provoke crises.
NATO
allies
could make a similar statement.
But in a speech to NATO leaders, he removed a line that would have explicitly reaffirmed the US’s commitment to collective defense under Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, rattling allies, and apparently even some of his top advisers.
Certainly, America’s guarantee of its NATO allies’ security will not become worthless; but it will become far more difficult to redeem it in full.
Russians are particularly outraged by Putin’s arrogant treatment of the presidency as an office that can be “loaned” to
allies
– like the current incumbent, Dmitri Medvedev – and reclaimed whenever he wishes.
Of course, stability requires agreement between the two key actors; and there are sure to be plenty of opponents and
allies
trying to stir up trouble between them.
The US found this out in 1994 – long before North Korea had a nuclear weapon – when it planned a pre-emptive strike to destroy the North’s Yongbyon plutonium reprocessing plant, only to find that its
allies
in South Korea (and Japan) were deterred by the risk of conventional retaliation.
Its continental
allies
do not enjoy such advantages (only France is a nuclear power).
As a result, painful policy dilemmas arise, and they can divide even the closest
allies.
An estimated million more were massacred in Bangladesh in 1971, and only this year have some of the perpetrators’ local
allies
been tried.
The US worries that China is driving a wedge between its strongest Asian allies, South Korea and Japan, undermining America’s capacity to offset China’s rising military power.
But such an architecture will be impossible to achieve as long as the US is pressuring its
allies
to alienate, if not antagonize, China.
The US should be encouraging
allies
like South Korea, Australia, and Thailand (but not Japan and the Philippines, given their involvement in territorial conflicts with China) to engage further with China.
In addition, because her own coalition includes parties from the far left to the center, Bachelet will need to broker compromises with her
allies.
When states preach virtues they do not practice, or set lower hurdles for allies, trading partners, or co-religionists than they do for others, irritation and non-cooperation are the least they can expect.
The current situations in Bahrain, Yemen, and Syria are on the cusp: ugly, but smaller in scale and perhaps retrievable by pressure short of military action (of which the US and its
allies
could usefully apply much more).
The US certainly wants
allies
and partners to help it stare down any overreach by China in East Asia, and Anglophone Australia, Singapore, New Zealand, and especially India are part of its thinking as it implements its “pivot” to the region.
Indeed, Russia and the United States are circling each other like boxers before the contest actually begins, supporting different factions and trying to ensure that their
allies
in the multi-sided conflict are advancing, or at least holding ground.
America’s ambiguous role in Asian security – owing to its interest in supporting its regional
allies
while not antagonizing China – contributes to the uncertainty.
It may also portend the end of Pax Americana – the international order of free exchange and shared security that the US and its
allies
built after World War II.
And he has cast doubt on existing US security guarantees by suggesting that he will force America’s
allies
to pay for more of their own defense.
And if the US no longer guarantees its Sunni allies’ security, all regional powers – including Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Egypt – might decide that they can defend themselves only by acquiring nuclear weapons, and even more deadly conflict will ensue.
If the US gives up on its Asian
allies
such as the Philippines, South Korea, and Taiwan, those countries may have no choice but to prostrate themselves before China; and other US allies, such as Japan and India, may be forced to militarize and challenge China openly.
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