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During a visit to Belgrade in 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin went so far as to say that, “Russia, just as it was in the past, will always see Serbia as our
closest
ally.”
Far from being the Soviet Union’s
closest
ally, Tito was a founder of the Non-Aligned Movement, and excelled at playing the United States and the Soviet Union off against each other.
Economic sanctions may seem like a simple and inexpensive way to register disapproval for foreign hacking; in Russia’s case, existing sanctions against its largest banks and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s
closest
associates could be tightened.
The almost inevitable fall of Iran’s
closest
ally in the region, the Baath regime in Syria, only adds to the regime’s paranoid anxieties – and makes developing a nuclear capability seem all the more necessary for its survival.
The once-marginalized Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is now Trump’s
closest
cabinet member.
Psychologically, some of them seem to be reliving an imaginary war with our
closest
neighbors and trading partners.
Small clinics typically refer their oldest patients to the
closest
big hospital, which is often many miles away.
A Planet for All ApesMELBOURNE – Two new movies released this month – one a science-fiction blockbuster, the other a revealing documentary – raise the issue of our relations with our
closest
non-human relatives, the great apes.
In that way, our
closest
relatives could serve to bridge the moral gulf that we have dug between ourselves and other animals.
Thousands of emails had been discovered on the laptop of the estranged husband of Clinton’s
closest
assistant, Huma Abedin, during a separate inquiry into his own activities.
If the bizarre scenes now being witnessed in Kyiv continue, even Ukraine’s
closest
friends in Europe will find it very difficult to make the case for a deepening of relations.
These actions exacerbate tensions over the Trump administration’s imposition of tariffs on imports from other countries, including some of America’s
closest
allies (such as Canada), and its threats to withdraw from the World Trade Organization, which undergirds the rules-based system regulating cross-border flows of goods, services, and capital.
But, by the time of the Iraq war, conditions had changed: the US had grown so powerful relative to the rest of the world that the lack of reciprocity became an intense source of irritation even to America’s
closest
allies.
The Rights of Apes – and HumansMELBOURNE – On June 25, in a historic vote, the Spanish parliament’s Commission for the Environment, Agriculture, and Fisheries declared its support for The Great Ape Project, a proposal to grant rights to life, liberty, and protection from torture to our
closest
nonhuman relatives: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans.
Since 1992, Russia has tried to build its other main foreign-policy tool, the CSTO, as an alternative to NATO, but for years it had only six members – Russia and its
closest
allies, Belarus and Kazakhstan, plus three poor and insecure states (Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan).
It does not help that many of those press-freedom violators – including Saudi Arabia – are among America’s
closest
allies.
It is thus ironic that four of Macron’s 15 initially selected cabinet members – including one of the president’s
closest
advisers – have been forced to resign following reports of alleged misconduct or misuse of public funds, even before any judicial ruling.
US President Donald Trump is not a Nazi dictator (though some of his
closest
advisers admire some of the ideas that inspired fascism and Nazism in the past).
The classical concert that preceded the magisterial fireworks that ended the day was the
closest
thing to a French version of the Proms in London, mixing light classical and popular songs.
The
closest
Obama got to it during a debate was to talk about “energy independence,” which implies not being reliant on oil from the Middle East.
Indeed, the poll found more pessimistic views of the US among our oldest and
closest
allies than in Latin America, Japan, Turkey, and Eastern Europe.
On the contrary, beyond weakening relations with America’s
closest
allies, Trump’s tactics have increased tensions with Russia, thereby increasing what economists call the “shadow price” of national security.
Perhaps Antonis Samaras’s center-right government from 2012 to 2015 came
closest
to succeeding, but it could not survive, politically, the severe austerity that it was being forced to impose.
History and geography – measured by distance from the
closest
seaports – have isolated these countries physically, economically, and socially, and have exacerbated the difficulties of their transitions to market economies.
As a result, painful policy dilemmas arise, and they can divide even the
closest
allies.
The protagonists that pressured the regime into relinquishing the ASEAN chair were not the usual Western human rights campaigners, but Burma’s
closest
ASEAN neighbors.
If an extended period of depressed growth following a crisis isn’t the right moment to challenge them, then when is?South Korea’s Middle-Power DiplomacyBEIJING – Last week, South Korean President Park Geun-hye, despite the opposition of her country’s
closest
ally, the United States, stood together with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Tiananmen Square to watch the military parade commemorating the 70th anniversary of World War II’s end in Asia.
Likewise, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is concerned that his country’s
closest
neighbor is drifting into China’s orbit.
As former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan wrote in December, “All too frequently, leaders will concern themselves with matters that are
closest
at hand, while the most serious issues are often more distant – geographically or in time.
Now it appears that President George W. Bush’s
closest
ally in the hemisphere will not only have its FTA rejected, owing to human rights concerns in the US House and Senate.
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