In his interview, he also said the United States was showing signs of “turning its back on us”, as demonstrated by Trump’s sudden decision last month to pull troops out of northeastern Syria without consulting the allies. . Once seen by some as a Cold War relic until..…
With its 2015 intervention in Syria’s civil war, Russia re-entered the fray in the Middle East for the first time since the end of the Cold War—and in a spectacular fashion. Now, with its recent departure from Syria, the United States is seemingly ceding that..…
This statement by President Erdogan reveals that the current crisis goes beyond that which began with the Turkish offensive in Syria. . In Turkey, during the Cold War, the United States deployed nuclear weapons against the Soviet Union. ..…
Clinton was hardly progressive when she supported making flag burning a felony, censoring video games, supported restricting freedom of speech to fight terrorism, defended the use of cluster bombs in civilian areas, supported parental notification laws, making abortion rare (a statement which stigmatizes..…
Worth on Syria and Iran, Hezbollah and Islamic State, France and Russia, Obama and Netanyahu, Jihad and Cold War, and the future of West.. ..…
Key to this success were the kind of residual forces that until protected Kurds Syria and were the key to the end of Cold War. ..…
In less than a week, a new front has opened in Syria’s 8-year, all-but-over war, featuring hot- and cold-running proxies from its earliest days. ..…
During Cold War Soviet Union and its ally, Syria, supported PKK, and Kurdish groups, with view to weakening Turkey and NATO.. ..…
Today’s international security environment is far more tranquil than that of the Cold War. Unlike the devastation of the wars in Syria and Yemen, along with the humanitarian crisis associated with massive displacement, U.S...…
US intervention in Syria? Not under Trump By Gareth Porter, January 22, 2017 . . Pushing for a Lucrative New Cold War By Gareth Porter, January 09, 2017 . . ..…
War Party Hates Putin – Loves al-Qaeda . . “War on terrorism” turns into cold war against Russia . In both Yemen and Syria, the War Party has found an ally that they can get behind, you know, one that really supports our values: al-Qaeda. ..…
The entire US media establishment, the Times in the lead, waged propaganda war on him and Syria since the Obama regime launched hot war on the country in early 2011 — a cold hard truth they suppress, falsely blaming him and his government for US-led high crimes against..…
He favors “a democracy promotion agenda” like other liberals did in Iraq, Syria, Ukraine, etc. He doesn’t even so much as question that the Cold War was about ideology instead of about expanding the American empire. ..…
The new Cold War is getting hotter. We need leaders with foresight to see how in Venezuela, Syria & other places, potential military conflict btwn US-Russia can quickly escalate into war—nuclear war, the greatest danger we face today. https://t.co/uwjmzilMig . — Tulsi Gabbard..…
The issue of humanitarian intervention has proven a vexing one of the political left during the post-Cold War era. In light mass violence in Rwanda, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Darfur, Libya, and Syria, many leftists abandoned their traditional opposition to militarism and argued..…
, by Thierry Meyssan, Translation Pete Kimberley, Voltaire Network, 4 June 2019. . [4] Syria and the United States. Eisenhower’s Cold War in the Middle East, David W. Lesch, Westview Press (1992) . [5] “Who is the Enemy?”..…
United States and Russia: These two countries together possess more than 90 percent of the world’s nuclear weapons and, despite President Trump’s fondness for Vladimir Putin, relations between them are at the lowest point in thirty years, since the end of the Cold War. Events in..…
It is used to justify both the curtailment of civil liberties in the United States and U.S. interventions overseas—including in countries such as Syria and Venezuela. This new Cold War predates the Trump presidential campaign. It was manufactured over a decade ago by a war..…
Others have doctrinal issues or land claims India, Pakistan and Kashmir others want to remove Syria still others have long history of antipathy resulting from the Cold War United States and Cuba, United States and Chile, Nicaragua, Honduras United States and Venezuela North and..…
Representative to Venezuela (and Cold War fanatic) Eliott Abrams. Knowing that the American people have grown weary with their forever wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Yemen, these four interventionists can’t decide whether to initiate a new war against Venezuela or..…
It's this third, neo-Cold War battle that made U.S policy makers decide to take the risk of arming Islamist rebels Syria, because Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, is Russian ally. ..…
While geopolitical events over the years have resulted in increased scrutiny against the Xinjiang province, both years of US soft war strategies and the proliferation of separatist extremism encouraged by their allies have been largely omitted from these narratives–shaped around the usual sanctions driven..…
Syria dispute may mark greatest threat of US-Russia conflict since Cold War . ..…
Almost on schedule, around a decade after America’s intervention in Afghanistan Washington policymakers found another distant civil war requiring their attention: Syria. ... Indeed, throughout the Cold War Damascus had been allied with the Soviet Union, without any..…
In the Middle East, Iran has funded, trained, equipped, and directed military forces outside the control of the local government in Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen. At best, these revisionist ambitions portend Cold War–like political and military competition in the three regions. ..…
For all intents and purposes, Israel is waging secret war on Syria in New Cold War that's somewhat similar to the one that the US waged on Laos in Old Cold War, seeing as how the world knew about both and did not say anything for their own reasons. ... Both target..…
In Syria Washington chose to enter a civil war of minimal security concern to America. Syria was allied with the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Washington’s previous forays in similarly imploding Middle Eastern nations—Lebanon and Libya—turned out badly. ..…
And a hot conflict in the South or East China Sea will affect the world financial system much more than the collapse of Iraq, Syria, Libya, or Yemen. . What kept the Cold War from going hot was the fear of hydrogen bombs. ..…
Russia-US relations are currently at post-Cold War lows over Ukraine, Syria, and allegations of Russian meddling in the 2016 US election. ..…
And a hot conflict in the South or East China Sea will affect the world financial system much more than the collapse of Iraq, Syria, Libya, or Yemen. . What kept the Cold War from going hot was the fear of hydrogen bombs. ..…
The militarization of the new Cold War intensified, with direct or proxy US-Russian military confrontations in the Baltic region, Ukraine, and Syria; the onset of another nuclear arms race with both sides in quest of more “usable” weapons; mounting, but entirely unsubstantiated,..…
He repeatedly tweeted his virulent opposition to continuing the war in Afghanistan and regularly urged President Obama to stay out of Syria. And to the horror of newly minted Cold War liberals, he even suggested a détente with Russia. . ..…
The militarization of the new Cold War intensified, with direct or proxy US-Russian military confrontations in the Baltic region, Ukraine, and Syria; the onset of another nuclear arms race with both sides in quest of more “usable” weapons; mounting, but entirely unsubstantiated,..…
Considering the possibility of “crushing” sanctions proposed recently by a bipartisan group of US senators, this would be nothing less than a declaration of permanent war against Russia: economic war, but war nonetheless. . - Meanwhile, other new Cold War fronts were..…
Considering the possibility of “crushing” sanctions proposed recently by a bipartisan group of US senators, this would be nothing less than a declaration of permanent war against Russia: economic war, but war nonetheless. . § Meanwhile, other new Cold War fronts were..…
This is not surprising as the ANG supports Syria’s Baath Party, which was locked into a long cold war with its Iraqi counterpart, several of whose leaders joined ISIS to fight against Iran and the Shia. . ..…
Leonid Brezhnev meets with Syria's Hafez al-Assad, 1974. . Vladimir Musaelyan/TASS . . Of course, we are talking about the old, pre-war Syria. Back in the Cold War era, when Hafez al-Assad, the father of current president Bashar al-Assad, ruled the country, it was..…
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Mattis comments are likely to worsen relations between Moscow and West, already at post- Cold War over Russia's 2014 seizure of Crimea, its bombing Syria and accusations of meddling Western elections.. ..…
Steinmeier noted that Syria and Ukraine and cooperation between Cold War era enemies were fueling animosity between the two countries.. ..…
On John Bolton’s first day as national security adviser, Trump is being pushed to embrace a policy of Cold War confrontation with Russia and a U.S. war with Syria. ..…
Moreover, Smith—dredging up the Shachtmanite anti-Marxist smears of the Cold War era—portrays opposition to the CIA’s war in Syria as a form of neo-Stalinism. . ..…
Next Cold War Roundup 9/16/16 . The ceasefire in Syria is shaky but producing a reduction in violence and may allow humanitarian aid soon. ... Batchelor – Cohen Podcast on the “New Cold War” . _ On Tuesday’s Batchelor Show segment with Stephen Cohen..…
Relations between the US and Russia have slipped to their lowest level since Cold War over Ukraine and Syria.. ..…
Once seen as a model of the enlightened ruler who blended his Islamic faith with a secular state, seeking friendship with all of his neighbors, Erdogan has declared cold war on Israel, aided the Islamic State in Syria and seems to be reigniting the war with the Kurds, distancing..…
[“Cold War and Covert Action: The United States and Syria, 1945-1958,” Middle East Journal, Winter 1990, p. 55] . . ... The efforts of the US to subvert Syria did not end with the Cold War. ..…