Flames
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Independent India came into being as
flames
blazed across the land, corpse-laden trains crossed the new frontier with Pakistan, and weary refugees abandoned everything to seek a new life.
Rather than take the diplomatic initiative to end the fighting and restore stability in Yemen, the Trump administration has continued to fan the
flames
of an ongoing Saudi-Iranian proxy war that is causing untold suffering and roiling the region.
As long as China fans the
flames
of nationalism and holds tight the reins of party control, its soft power will always remain limited.
By contrast, the rest of the region’s experiences – which involve a long history of autocratic governance and neglect of long-simmering grievances – have fanned the
flames
of conflict.
Moreover, while oil-export revenue is booming, the neighborhood is in revolutionary
flames.
Early efforts to privatize Iraq’s oil industry proved disastrous, confirming for many Iraqis that the occupying Americans were determined to “steal” the country’s wealth and thus fanning the
flames
of violent resistance.
Meanwhile, Poland’s right-wing media has fanned the flames, with one magazine recently depicting Tusk in handcuffs.
The real culprit is the government, which first fanned the
flames
of excessive investment, then suddenly tried to cut off the fire’s oxygen supply.
China insists that its goal is for the people of Syria to escape violence, conflict, and the
flames
of war, but its veto will do just the opposite.
It is not just the media and the government that is fanning the
flames
of this hatred.
The main strategic assessment on both sides of the Berlin Wall was that if either side made a wrong move, all of us might end up consumed in the
flames
of a nuclear holocaust.
The easiest way to compound the tragedy in Paris would be to use the deaths of Charlie Hebdo’s editor, Stéphane Charbonnier, and 11 others to fan the
flames
of religious hatred.
Worse, President Donald Trump has exploited this racism and fanned the
flames
of bigotry.
Russia continues to fan secessionist
flames
there by encouraging the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
Or were they there to applaud their business-as-usual approach to every crisis – an approach that has fanned the
flames
of xenophobic nationalism throughout the European Union?
A New Year of Global ConflictDAVOS – In today’s world, identifying and managing hotspots is not simply a matter of pulling out a map, spotting the wildfires, and empowering diplomats to douse the
flames.
Fighting Terror Among the BelieversThe
flames
of Islamic fundamentalism are not confined to the Middle East and Central Asia.
The battlefield allusion leads observers to reason that there must be more sophisticated technologies than shovels and rakes with which to suppress the
flames.
As persistently low energy prices put the Kremlin under increasing pressure, there is a growing risk that Russian President Vladimir Putin could fan the
flames
of nationalism by lashing out once again.
But while Trump has gleefully fanned the
flames
of hatred in the US, he did not kindle them, just as the Brexiteers did not do so in the UK.
When the
flames
died down, our ancestors set out to recover the knowledge that had been lost.
He worked assiduously to fan the
flames
of sectarian civil war, succeeding to the extent that now the chief reason for not intervening to stop the killing is the impossibility of doing so effectively in an environment of sectarian violence.
The government's fanning of the
flames
of xenophobic nationalism after the recent bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade is just the most recent sign of a deep sense of insecurity, which is also reflected in the suppression of dissenting voices.
In the midst of this crisis of legitimacy, Chinese leaders seek to fan the
flames
of nationalism - and its even more dangerous sibling, anti-foreignism - as a substitute for political consensus.
The arms and money flowing to self-proclaimed holy fighters over the last four years have fanned revolutionary
flames
that may yet lead to a redrawing of the map of the Middle East.
As events in Bosnia in the 1990s and in Syria and Iraq today so tragically demonstrate, the
flames
they are fanning could easily become a conflagration.
Ironically, it is the combination of increased literacy and modern technology that is fanning the
flames
of conflict between the two types of “reformers” – religious revivalists and Western-oriented modernizers.
Throwing gasoline on the
flames
of fear and frustration may have won Cameron and his party the 2015 election, but it also produced the conflagration that has gutted his party, his legacy, and his country.
The problem for the rest of Europe is that Brexit itself could serve as the accelerant for popular passions, with feckless populist figures happily fanning the
flames.
There is an almost embattled culture among many senior officials, who fear that fanning the
flames
of dissent among Europe’s voters could one day knock European unity off course.
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