Wake up call for US and European strategists as persecution of Christians increases in Turkey and Middle East.
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Peter Brookes and Owen Graham for The Reactionary
Supporters of the treaty dismiss concerns, stating that it "limits nothing" with regard to missile defense, and simply "notes the relationship between the offense and defense, a strategic reality that has been recognized for more than 40 years." Others, however, see this as a clear restriction on the development of missile defense.
The stark reality is that while Turkey and the United States are not enemies in the Middle East, they are fast becoming competitors. Whereas the United States seeks to remain the predominant power in the region and, as such, wants to maintain a political order that makes it easier for Washington to achieve its goals, Turkey clearly sees things differently. The Turks are willing to bend the regional rules of the game to serve Ankara's own interests. If the resulting policies serve U.S. goals at the same time, good. If not, so be it.
Communism was responsible for the deaths of some 150 million human beings during the twentieth century. The world remains inexplicably indifferent and uncurious about the deadliest ideology in history.
Will ours be the Chinese century? Probably not. China has just about reached high tide, and will soon begin a long painful process of falling back. In addition to its outdated economic model, China faces a number of other problems, including banks with unacknowledged bad loans on their books, trade friction arising from mercantilist policies, a pandemic of defective products and poisonous foods, a grossly underfunded and inadequate social security system, a society that is rapidly aging as a result of the brutally enforced one-child policy, a rising tide of violent crime, a monumental environmental crisis, ever-worsening corruption, and failing schools and other social services.
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Dr. Yevgeny Volkfor The Reactionary
In the absence of any significant agreements with Washington during Putin’s tenure as president, Medvedev will appear more attractive and is bound to be presented as a peacemaker in the pro-government news media.
Economic power has always been a foundation of empires’ military might and cultural influence. But today, when an economy can collapse overnight (Iceland?), the dominant position of a preeminent power is less secure than ever before. No amount of military strategizing can prevent the next property bubble.
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Joseph I. Lieberman, UNITED STATES SENATOR
History has shown time and again that when a regime tyrannizes its own citizens, ultimately it will fail and freedom will prevail. Standing in solidarity with the people of Iran is, to my mind, both a moral responsibility and a strategic imperative.
Although the fate of the Arab world is not written, the trends are increasingly apparent. The Arabs find themselves in the weakest position since the return of Arab rule to determine the outcome of events in the region. The decades have not been kind to the hopes once invested in the Arab world or to those who have suffered by their failures.
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Mullah D for The Reactionary
Translated and Edited for The Reactionary by Alexander Ackley R.A.
The Iranian regime has for many years played a treacherous cat and mouse game with the western world. It has purposely provoked the world’s democratic states and risked conflict with the West, even while facing the crushing consequences of sanctions and the possibility of an annihilating military strike on its nuclear facilities. Iran expertly plays for time and knows very well how to exploit the geopolitical power games between the established nuclear powers for its own advantage.
by Yevgeny Volk for The Reactionary
Russia is uniquely positioned to help in Afghanistan but is holding out for a better deal from NATO.
The turning point in the battle between authoritarian populism and liberal democracy in Latin America has passed -- and Chávez has lost.
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Alexenia Dimitrova for The Reactionary
When I read his secret file I could not find any clear answers – did he really escaped from Bulgaria, or he was „planted“ by the regime in the West? What could compel a man to forget his life, his children, and his homeland?
Muslim terrorists are the main threat to international and American security. They are the ones most likely to impose totalitarianism on their fellow Muslims, and the ones most likely to use weapons of mass destruction.
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Dr. William D. E. Mallinson for The Reactionary
The whole question hinges on the undermining of international law since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Here, we can draw a certain flexible parallel with the return of barbarity to western Europe following the collapse of the Roman Empire, when law went out of the window, to return only slowly and painstakingly, with the help of the Church, and of Charlemagne’s keenness to emulate the old days of Roman power.
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Peter Brookes for The Reactionary
Now into the ninth year since U.S. forces entered Afghanistan, support for the protracted fight among the American public, including members of Congress, is slipping as the Obama administration wrestles with a strategy with its trademark on it.
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Peter Brookes for The Reactionary (first appeared in Townhall Magazine)
The Kremlin doesn’t see the White House in the friendly, let’s-be-partners sort of way Washington currently looks at Moscow. Instead, Russia views the United States through a prism of raw national interest, seeing a troubling competitor—and a country that won the Cold War.
When it comes to climate change, the environmental movement has gotten itself on the wrong side of doubt. It has become the voice of the establishment, of the tenured, of the technocrats. It proposes big economic and social interventions and denies that unintended consequences and new information could vitiate the power of its recommendations. It knows what is good for us, and its knowledge is backed up by the awesome power and majesty of the peer-review process.
There is a growing argument that a nuclear Iran can be contained. Henry Kissinger has argued that U.S.willingness to engage Iran in a limited nuclear war increase the chances of credible nuclear deterrence.
Both Turkey and Brazil are now more democratic, but that democracy does not translate into pro-American or pro-globalization. In both cases, the democratization of national life means greater power for those who feel different from and alienated by the world order that the United States is trying to build.
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Mullah D. for The Reactionary
Translated and Edited for The Reactionary by Alexander Ackley R.A.
Today's Afghanistan is in many ways comparable with Germany in May, 1945. Hence, Afghanistan needs an occupying power so that a functioning society has an opportunity to grow without criminal and fanatical structures taking the dominant positions of power.
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