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That is why US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has, far more explicitly than any of his predecessors, voiced frustration and more than a hint of anger at America’s NATO allies.
Meanwhile, as Gates was berating the NATO allies, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was bluntly warning African leaders that “authoritarian governments” ruled by “aging despots” were “no longer acceptable.”
But the US knows perfectly well that Al Qaeda is an enemy of convenience for Saleh and other American allies in the region, and that in many cases, terrorism has been used as a pretext to repress reform.
How would Trump – who questioned the value of NATO during the campaign – react if Putin committed aggression against one of the Baltic states, NATO allies toward which he’s already made threatening gestures?
In these fragmented political areas, the logic of integration in the past depended on areas that were dissatisfied with political outcomes appealing to new allies in larger units.
For example, while they pale in significance to, say, the World Bank, China-led institutions have proved appealing to a growing number of countries; most US allies have joined the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, despite American opposition.
To the extent that there is a tradeoff, with more resources for the south meaning fewer resources for the east, differences among the threat perceptions of the NATO allies risk producing deadlock.
If Abe and his allies were cosmopolitan in their outlook, with a deep understanding of, or concern for, other countries, the decision to revisit the 1993 apology would indeed be extraordinary.
He is upsetting allies in Asia, embarrassing the US, and making bad relations with China even worse.
After all, a Japan that is isolated in Asia will be even more dependent on the US, the wartime victor, which Abe and his nationalist allies hold responsible for the postwar order that they seek to revise.
In 2006, then-President George W. Bush’s administration announced plans to build a missile-defense shield in Eastern Europe, in order to protect the Western allies against intercontinental missiles from Iran.
Without cooperation from allies such as Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and the Philippines, the US could not retain its forward military positions in the West Pacific.
But it has lost its halo as a voice for the oppressed and downtrodden, and has exposed itself as a partisan and sectarian party that will side with Iran and its allies even at the expense of human rights and human lives in neighboring Syria.
Environmental activists have found allies among officials within China’s State Environmental Protection Administration, Meteorological Administration, and Forestry Bureau.
For starters, the US must maintain strong ties with its two regional allies – Japan and South Korea.
Still, for most of the postwar era, we understood that Japan could not send the SDF abroad even to support allies.
Merkel’s Comeuppance is Europe’s – and the World’s – MisfortuneJOHANNESBURG – One of the most common mistakes European leaders make in interpreting US President Donald Trump’s hostility toward America’s traditional allies, or the alacrity of his administration’s efforts to blow up the international order, is to assume that all of this is unprecedented.
And Obama has made his support of democratic aspirations clear, to the dismay of allies like Israel and Saudi Arabia.
Now we know that the US government and its few allies were themselves either fools or liars.
While the US now enjoys greater energy self-sufficiency, thanks to shale oil and gas, that is not true of its allies in Europe.
What this shows is that, in dealing with ASEAN, China gets to negotiate twice – first, through its closest allies within ASEAN in the formulation of common ASEAN positions, and then directly with an ASEAN team that could include one of its allies.
America’s European allies are tiring of the endless battles and mounting casualties.
America will, of course, continue to put pressure on its allies, but democracy has a way of limiting the effectiveness of such pressure.
Trump and Arpaio are longtime allies.
Moreover, a ceasefire would enable the FSA and its allies to coordinate action with units of the regular army against Al Qaeda bands, which would undoubtedly try to sustain the violence.
Responsibility for convincing Assad to stop bombing and shelling opposition-held areas would fall primarily on his international allies, Russia and Iran.
Mao’s adventures on the Korean peninsula, supporting the North against the South and its Western allies, helped to cement the Washington-Taipei axis, which, thanks to some nifty diplomatic footwork, survived President Richard Nixon’s rapprochement with China in the early 1970s.
Each of the 26 NATO allies has troops in Afghanistan, as do 11 other countries.
Several countries, including NATO allies, have imposed “national caveats” that limit where their troops can be deployed or the tasks they undertake.
All NATO allies and EU members want the US to remain committed to Europe’s future, to take the lead elsewhere in meeting security needs on which all agree, and to admit Europe into its strategic confidence.
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