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They elevate players to god-like status when their team performs well, ignoring obvious weaknesses; but when it loses, as any team must, the fall is equally steep and every weakness is dissected.
As such, it is only a matter of time until weakness in one part migrates to other parts.
This, and the indirect negotiations with Israel that are now underway in Turkey – which Assad knows cannot produce major results, given Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s political weakness and Bush’s lame-duck status – have helped to open for Syria the gates of Europe, where he had also once been a pariah.
But that will not help Putin to overcome the source of Russia’s weakness, which lies in his inability or unwillingness to see the Soviet Union for the failure that it was.
As long as no distinction is made between nationalist extremists and fanatical terrorists like Al Qaeda, the latter will be able to masquerade as the defenders of Muslims who are seen as “driven” to resort to suicide bombing because of military weakness.
Mindful of this weakness, Russia has offered Syria its more modern S-300 missiles; but there is no evidence that they have arrived, let alone been deployed.
But this hesitant acceptance of a certain normality in its relations with its neighbors has always been vulnerable to a sudden eruption of Russia’s famously irrational “derzhava” – an aggressive ethos that glorifies the state and asserts its strength by pouncing on weakness.
His relentless disquisitions on Israel’s strategic environment, security requirements, red lines, and Jewish history are offset only by conciliatory talk about reopening negotiations, which are immediately reject by the Palestinians, who, like him, fear showing weakness.
Americans now see Europe as compounding its military weakness by losing its leading position in science.
Indeed, if anything, weakness in the US labor market, low capital expenditures, and slow income growth have contradicted signals in the early summer that third-quarter growth might be more robust.
It was not weakness or helplessness that induced Obama to play for high stakes.
Almost four years after the beginning of the crisis, developed economies have not managed a sustainable recovery, and even the better-off countries reveal signs of weakness.
The weakness of Vasella's position is further shown by his injunction that businesses should collaborate with the UN.
It is this internal weakness that has allowed Putin’s Russia – which, on its own, is far from attractive – to emerge as a potent rival to the EU.
Meanwhile, US weakness has opened the door to Russia’s resumption of Cold War practices in the region.
Now the roles are reversed, and it is President Chirac who finds himself in a position of weakness.
But, in a clear sign of his current weakness, Zuma was able to keep a no-confidence motion off the NEC agenda earlier this month, only by making a major concession: permitting an inquiry into state capture that he had been blocking for more than a year.
In this narrative, the Cold War was not so much won by the US and the West as lost by the Soviets, the inevitable result of Soviet economic weakness and political decay.
Additional signs of weakness, including soft data on exports and investment, emerged in the first half of 2015.
Denounce Europe for its supposed weakness and decadence all you want.
Indeed, the world will be characterized for several years by the asymmetry generated by advanced countries’ weakness and emerging economies’ strength, which calls for asymmetry in these two groups of countries’ monetary policies.
This is particularly true in the case of institutional weakness.
And, just as importantly, they now understand that it is not enough to ensure that governments can finance their debt at reasonable interest rates; they must also address the weakness of Europe’s banking system.
Arguably, Germany’s biggest economic weakness today is low private investment.
Third, the EU must strengthen its defenses to protect itself from its external enemies, who are liable to take advantage of its current weakness.
China feels stronger than ever in the Trump era, and in the eyes of Chinese cadres, not responding forcefully would be a sign of weakness.
But audacity in the quest for peace, as demonstrated by Yitzhak Rabin and Barak himself in the past – and as Dayan demonstrated as a negotiator with Egypt– is no sign of weakness.
The resulting weakness of the US economy will mean lower US import demand.
On the one hand, they can compensate for the global weakness by turbo-charging their own internal demand through aggressive fiscal stimulus.
Despite their strong fundamentals, emerging countries still feel vulnerable in the face of the West’s economic weakness, policy shortfalls, and political paralysis.
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