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The Return of Geopolitics to EuropeBERLIN – With Russia’s military
invasion
and annexation of Crimea, and the subsequent war in eastern Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin has made it abundantly clear that he has no intention of respecting the inviolability of borders and the primacy of international legal norms.
On June 16, 1940, Winston Churchill proposed a Franco-British political union in the aftermath of the German
invasion
of France.
In the run-up to the Iraq invasion, the Bush administration rejected containment as an obsolete Cold War hangover.
Claims that he abandoned his nuclear program in response to the US-led
invasion
of Iraq have been refuted by Flynt Leverett, director for Middle Eastern affairs at the US National Security Council from 2002 to 2003.
According to Leverett, Khadafi’s decision predated the
invasion
and was a response to an explicit quid-pro-quo to end international sanctions against Libya.
Armenia, an independent country since 1991, remains dependent on continued Russian protection, as was the case in 1920 when it joined the Soviet Union rather than suffer further Turkish
invasion.
The Chernobyl Factor in the Ukraine CrisisLOS ANGELES – Twenty-eight years after its Chernobyl nuclear plant exploded, Ukraine confronts a nuclear specter of a different kind: the possibility that the country’s reactors could become military targets in the event of a Russian
invasion.
Earlier in the month, Ihor Prokopchuk, Ukraine’s ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, circulated a letter to the organization’s board of governors warning that an
invasion
could bring a “threat of radiation contamination on the territory of Ukraine and the territory of neighboring states.”
Such risks might be one reason for Russian President Vladimir Putin to think twice about ordering a military
invasion
of Ukraine.
Moreover, the world’s democracies are themselves divided on how to deal with Islamic terrorism or genocide in Darfur: it was France, after all, which led the opposition in the UN Security Council to the US
invasion
of Iraq.
But rumors that the Maharaja was leaning towards India triggered an
invasion
from Muslim revolutionaries and Pakistani tribesmen.
Consider Russia’s
invasion
and annexation of Crimea earlier this year.
In failing to craft an adequate response to the Russian invasion, however, the international community pushed Ukraine toward a dark past.
The most critical issue facing Brown is whether he chooses to distance himself from Blair’s self-satisfied and delusional claim that the
invasion
of Iraq was “the right thing to do.”Britain has already reduced its forces in southern Iraq, and is on course to reduce them still further as they hand over “security” to the Iraqi police and military.
Asia and a Post-American Middle EastKUWAIT CITY – When the consequences of the United States-led
invasion
of Iraq ten years ago are fully assessed, the importance of the subsequent rise of political Islam there – and throughout the wider Middle East – may well pale in comparison to that of a geostrategic shift that no one foresaw at the time.
The Bush administration, predictably, is pushing for new and tougher sanctions, based on an implied warning in the earlier UN Resolution, and arguing, as it did in the run-up to the
invasion
in Iraq, that the UN’s credibility is at stake.
Though Mubarak’s opposition to the Iraqi
invasion
of Kuwait in 1991 happened to align with US policy, he was unwilling to back other American campaigns against Arab leaders.
First, there is the migrant crisis in southern Europe, a threat more diffuse but no less dangerous and challenging than Russia’s
invasion
of Ukraine.
Twenty years ago, in the weeks that preceded Iraq’s
invasion
of Kuwait, many observers saw signs of a looming crisis.
Irresponsible InterventionsGENEVA – With France launching its third “humanitarian” military operation in as many years – this time in the Central African Republic – interventionism, which seemed discredited after the US
invasion
of Iraq, seems to have returned as an accepted norm in international affairs.
They cannot quite grasp how European demonstrators can denounce Israel’s wars as “genocide” – a term that has never been applied to the Syrian hecatomb, the obliteration of Grozny by Russia, the 500,000 casualties in Iraq since the United States-led
invasion
in 2003, or US airstrikes in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
As a result, the Middle East is at risk of becoming the Balkans of the twenty-first century – a decline into regional chaos that began with, and was largely the result of, the US-led
invasion
ten years ago.
But no calamity better captures the dangers of a press corps too beholden to power than the
invasion
of Iraq, a cataclysmic blunder whose ghastly knock-on effects afflict the Middle East, as well as Europe, to this day.
In the lead-up to the invasion, George W. Bush’s administration assiduously courted journalists at mainstream liberal and conservative news outlets, who then helped it win public support by disseminating what turned out to be false claims about weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
News outlets not only allowed the administration to marshal questionable facts to justify the invasion; they also permitted officials to attach undue significance to those facts, with no questions asked.
It is worth remembering that Germany and France concurred with the Bush administration’s factual claims about Iraqi weapons, but vigorously opposed the invasion, because they believed that the consequences would pose a larger threat than Saddam Hussein ever could.
So it is noteworthy that, as the US-led
invasion
of Iraq--and with it, America's clash with the Islamic world--grows more heated, Russia's battle with Muslim Chechens may be waning into something like peace.
And Iraq’s
invasion
of Kuwait in the summer of 1990 led to the global recession of 1990-1991.
Over the last five years, it has confronted a seemingly endless series of tests, including a eurozone-wide financial crisis, Russia’s
invasion
of Ukraine, renewed fears of a Greek default, and the prospect of a British exit.
More recently, he was a guiding hand behind Russia’s
invasion
of Ukraine and annexation of Crimea, inspiring the feverish media campaigns that have delivered near-universal public support for these moves.
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