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To deflect attention from potentially incendiary policies, he launches baseless accusations against his supposed
enemies
– beginning with the media.
But its
enemies
– not only Putin’s Russia, but also its own bureaucracy and financial oligarchy – are formidable, and it cannot defeat them alone.
If the West really wants to hurt Putin’s regime, giving oligarchs an incentive to take their money and leave is a lot more effective than punishing those whom Putin considers his
enemies.
Liberty, equality, and fraternity are
enemies
of the nationalist, extremist, and europhobic visions benighting Europe today.
That means that the principal bond of such an alliance is not a mere calculus of geopolitical interest, or of potential enemies, but something much deeper: solidarity.
The 1979 Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty mandated that Sinai be largely demilitarized in order to serve as a buffer zone between the two former
enemies.
And yet these movements’ immediate
enemies
tend to be domestic rather than foreign.
Third, the EU must strengthen its defenses to protect itself from its external enemies, who are liable to take advantage of its current weakness.
Given the US record since the doctrine was formulated, another criterion should be added: the main beneficiaries of military intervention are not America’s mortal
enemies.
ISIS seeks to broaden its support, especially among young Muslims, by convincing them that true Muslims are in an existential war with the West – that the infidels are their mortal
enemies.
Throughout his career, he was known to play all sides, at times threatening his resignation, only to stay on – or accusing
enemies
of assassination plots, only to stay alive.
For the first time in history, terrorism gives insurgents the ability to strike directly at their enemies’ external allies.
Indeed, for the first time in the history of its special relationship with Israel, America is not speaking to Israel’s enemies, be they Syria, Iran, Hamas, or Hezbollah.
Whatever his decision, Taiwan’s first DPP president will go down in history as a pathetic failure, because he used his office to divide the island’s citizens, as if his domestic political opponents were Taiwan’s mortal
enemies.
Lower-profile rivals and
enemies
have suffered harsher treatment.
No doubt, his regime revels in all the historic forms of populism: messianic leadership, anti-American rhetoric, disregard for constitutional forms, drunken spending, and state-orchestrated popular mobilization to fill squares and jeer at supposed
enemies.
Putin responded to those he considers political
enemies
by arresting and jailing protesters, including the all-girl rock band Pussy Riot, following “show trials” (with the Olympics approaching, there have been recent “show pardons”).
Far from attempting to defeat its enemies, the United Kingdom is attempting to preserve mutually beneficial relationships with countries from which it cannot distance itself geographically – and from which it can’t afford to distance itself otherwise.
Since 2007, many of the cartels’ victims have been decapitated – a tactic clearly aimed at intimidating their
enemies.
For starters, there was Kennedy’s vow to defend freedom for its friends and from its enemies: “Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”
Muslims, including Islamists, have a diversity of views, so we need to be wary of strategies that help our
enemies
by uniting disparate forces behind one banner.
Today’s populists, of whatever political stripe, increasingly target not just the same potential supporters, but the
enemies
as well.
That is why Meir ignored an explicit warning by “the best of Israel’s enemies,” King Hussein of Jordan, ten days before the 1973 war, that an Egyptian-Syrian offensive was imminent.
The way forward involves inculcating hatred among “the people” of their class
enemies.
The West would appear confused, its allies would be dismayed, and its
enemies
would be emboldened.
Russia is now struggling to regain its self-respect, and it is pursuing traditional foreign policy goals that are based on a historical fear of being encircled – this time by Islamist extremists to the south, a potentially expansionist China to the east, and its former Cold War
enemies
to the west.
Moreover, the market still has enemies, for the effort to eliminate markets is not the only enemy that markets have.
So the effort to eliminate markets failed, but that doesn't mean that
enemies
of the market system have disappeared.
So the
enemies
of the market do not only come from an ideological process.
Historically, phases of resurgent radicalism have lasted 5-10 years, marked by greater aggressiveness against internal and external
enemies.
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