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Big business won't stand up for the oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, singled out by the Kremlin as a political enemy and imprisoned since last year.
It is hard for me to visualize NATO as an enemy.”
But no section of Ukraine is our enemy and none will be treated that way.
Unlike a “real enemy,” with which a rival can achieve a modus vivendi, an absolute enemy must in time be either destroyed or transformed – for example, through the “nation building” that Trump vociferously rejects.
In this anti-liberal view, there is no reason to view Russia as an absolute enemy.
Terrorism is nothing new, nor is it a single enemy.
To be sure, capital markets are not the enemy.
In the 1980's, this approach focused attention on abuses in conflict-ridden Central America and in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, which the Reagan Administration favored in its struggle with America's enemy, Ayatollah Khomeini's Iran.
It is still true of those who regard George Soros as the most villainous enemy of the toiling masses today.
Its most dangerous enemy typically comes from within.
He has obfuscated his actions by talking of cooperating against a common enemy, ISIS.
The main enemy of the open society is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat.
The international open society may now be its own worst enemy.
The Pakistani military may have once thought that fomenting militancy and terrorism in India was an effective strategy for hurting the enemy at little cost.
Treat China as an enemy, and you guarantee enmity.
In 1911, the leading textbook on the German financial system, by the veteran banker Jacob Riesser, warned that, “The enemy, however, may endeavor to aggravate a panic…by the sudden collection of outstanding claims, by an unlimited sale of our home securities, and by other attempts to deprive Germany of gold.
Its number-one enemy, Saddam, was dispatched by its number-two enemy, the United States, which presented Iran with a golden opportunity to extend its influence beyond its western border for the first time since 1746.
The lesson to be learned from comparing Trichet’s 2009 intervention with the European Commission’s current stance on Apple is simple: Europeans’ real enemy is free riding by the few on the backs of the many.
Instead of pushing their agenda forward among Egyptians, they focused on the wrong enemy, spending invaluable time organizing rallies against the army.
In losing its existential enemy, the West lost the foil against which it declared its own moral superiority.
And in order to do that, they need a compelling enemy.
A shared enemy did underpin America’s alliance with parts of Europe over much of the twentieth century.
That enemy, however, was also European – first Germany, then Russia.
Kennan argued that long-term peace between the capitalist West and communist Russia was impossible, owing to the mixture of traditional Russian insecurity, Stalin’s need for an external enemy, and communist messianism.
There was something insane about the whole business, and one is left with the disquieting thought that NATO prolonged the Soviet Union’s life by handing it a ready-made enemy to replace Nazi Germany.
With the exception of historical countries such as Egypt or Morocco, most Arab states are artificial constructs of European colonialism, which combined disparate tribes and ethnicities into unitary states that could be held together only by authoritarian rule and a common enemy – Zionism and its Western patrons.
Another factor may be the need for a common enemy in a country whose citizens come from so many different cultures and traditions.
Particularly the losers, often represented by young men with no future to look forward to, can be induced to take even suicidal action against the alleged enemy.
The big intellectual change has come from the International Monetary Fund, once an outright enemy of capital controls.
News reports and “analysis” by state-controlled channels in both Russia and Georgia that promote negative images of “the enemy” serve only to widen the gap between ethnic groups.
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