Leninism was simply the 20th century veneer for Russia's expansionism.
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The Metropolitan, for one, has paid dearly for such expansionism.
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He has displayed no concern for Russian expansionism in Ukraine.
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It fell to President Harry Truman to contain Soviet expansionism.
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Those were soothing words for Russia's neighbors, worried about Moscow's aggressive expansionism.
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There is a good case for standing up to creeping Chinese expansionism.
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Riyadh and Abu Dhabi also suspect Doha is complacent about Iranian expansionism.
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It would free up billions of dollars to bankroll the Ayatollah's expansionism.
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Still, many Arabs feel there is a need to counter Iranian expansionism.
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Historical Baltic and Polish fears of Russian expansionism make sense from above.
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It was that ambitious expansionism that probably got him killed, they said.
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It has given steady Israeli expansionism the international benediction of mythical reversibility.
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It is seeking bolster against Chinese territorial expansionism in the South China Sea.
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The Obama policy of following, not leading, has no answer to Russian expansionism.
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That's especially true now in the face of Russian expansionism and threatening actions.
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Strangely, however, Mr. Trump has done little to push back on Iranian expansionism.
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His reliance on evangelical Christians, who support Israeli expansionism, therefore presents an additional uncertainty.
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It&aposs a totally different -- he&aposs trying to recreate the Soviet Union expansionism.
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Four years ago, Mitt Romney made opposition to Russian expansionism a major campaign theme.
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This expansionism necessitates firm confrontation, as it significantly undermines U.S. political and security interests.
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The Saudis are concerned about Iranian expansionism in the region and Russia's regional agenda.
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The country has gained in geopolitical importance, too, thanks to its resistance to China's expansionism.
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When milquetoast establishment Republicans had moments of clarity on Putin's expansionism, they were roundly mocked.
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Riyadh and Abu Dhabi see the Houthi rise as expansionism by their Shi'ite foe, Iran.
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So the sense of a greater Israel and expansionism is really important to this community.
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But it has done little to rein in China's expansionism in the South China Sea.
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True, expansionism has won just about every time, but there is still room to fight.
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The NDS frequently refers to Taiwan's role as a target of, and bulwark against, Chinese expansionism.
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Palestinians remain mute and marginalized, caught between Israeli expansionism, unbidden Western interference and poor internal leadership.
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He has advocated a tougher line against Russian expansionism, in Ukraine and Syria, than Mr Trump has.
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The threat of Iranian expansionism and the new, more moderate regime in Riyadh has brought them back.
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Rather than joining forces to contain China's economic expansionism, the Trump administration has treated Europe with disdain.
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And he also was expected to complain about what China views as American expansionism on its doorstep.
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The Baltic states, worried about Russian expansionism, are countering the old-school spycraft of the Kremlin's agents.
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The likely beneficiaries are the Houthis, Exhibit A in the Trump Administration's case against Iran's regional expansionism.
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Though Washington has allied with Saudi Arabia against Iranian expansionism, Beijing is Tehran's most important economic lifeline.
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American investment in NATO enabled Europe to enjoy decades of freedom and growth, protected from Soviet expansionism.
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The People's Republic does not have the same approach to global expansionism as the Soviet Union either.
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Under Erdogan, Turkey is no longer the obedient NATO ally guarding the alliance's southern flank against Russian expansionism.
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China would not seek military expansionism or get into arms races no matter what happened, the newspaper said.
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Expansionism was always in America's DNA, as a country founded by the expulsion and slaughter of American Indians.
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For the United States, it promised a Europe united under Western leadership and a deterrent against Russian expansionism.
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And until recently India has shied away from working with other countries that are equally concerned by China's expansionism.
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Trump came in with this, as you put it, anti-globalist rhetoric — promising tariffs, a crackdown on Chinese expansionism.
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Reports of Saudi concern about perceived American weakness in the face of Iranian hostility and expansionism have circulated widely.
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But the reason Ukraine is important is that it's the battleground for the containment of Russian aggression and expansionism.
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A strong anti-imperialist living at a time of rampant Italian expansionism, he often cast his "native" characters as heroes.
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Saudi Arabia's campaign in Yemen marks the first time it has openly confronted what it sees as Iranian regional expansionism.
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This week, for example, ASEAN scrambled to retract a statement by its foreign ministers that implicitly criticised China's maritime expansionism.
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Shiite expansionism is limited by its minority status within Islam, but Iran has sought to project influence where it can.
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American leaders — especially the last two — tolerated the expansionism of Moscow and Beijing, allowing them to redraw borders by force.
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He echoes critics who call his church a tool used by Moscow to justify Russian expansionism and support the separatists.
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They see it as a fifth column for the Kremlin, used to harbor separatist fighters, store weapons and justify Russian expansionism.
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If Washington is to curb Beijing's expansionism, it will need to make China bear the economic costs of its growing bellicosity.
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But Modi used it to make serious points about India's neighbor and arch-rival Pakistan and regional concerns about Chinese expansionism.
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Now that ISIS is virtually defeated, the Iraqi government, supported by Shia militias, is trying to push back on Kurdish expansionism.
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A resolute message of strength in disputed seas is far more likely to win cooperation than meek acceptance of Chinese expansionism.
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He is not expected to seek significant changes on policies such as improving military readiness and countering Chinese and Russian expansionism.
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First, because it is a secular Moslem nation in Europe, and second, as a bulwark to Russian expansionism in the Balkans.
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Japan cares about Chinese expansionism, North Korean intermediate-range ballistic missiles, and the return of its kidnapped persons from North Korea.
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The battle between British-led forces and the local Indian rulers occurred during a period of British military expansionism in India.
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President Trump must explain why a small American presence in Iraq can keep us in the game to inhibit Iranian expansionism.
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In his new book, Grandin takes a wide lens to US history, looking at its history of expansionism and the frontier.
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Saudi officials see the intervention as a qualified success, halting Iranian expansionism in Yemen and bringing their opponents to the negotiating table.
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Finally, they recognize that Iran's regional expansionism not only unsettles America's allies like Israel and Saudi Arabia, but spurs instability and autocracy.
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"Like most countries we are opposed to militarization or military expansionism in the area," said Bruce Linghu, deputy foreign minister of Taiwan.
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What do you do to check Russian adventurism and Chinese expansionism, or however you want to characterize those two countries' foreign policies?
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But supporting allies against "what the U.S. views as Iranian expansionism takes priority over battling AQAP and even stabilizing Yemen," Horton said.
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Both the insult of second-class status and the injury of uncertainty are the ugly legal legacies of 19th century American expansionism.
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Despite its cooperation with Russia against the Syrian Kurds, Turkey is nervous about Russian expansionism in the Black Sea and South Caucasus.
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Chinese expansionism under Xi and North Korea's unpredictability imbue East Asia with some of the tensions of Europe during the Cold War.
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"Soleimani's martyrdom will make Iran more decisive to resist America's expansionism and to defend our Islamic values," Rouhani said in a statement.
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He sees the NATO alliance (correctly!) as a major bulwark against Russian expansionism in eastern Europe, and would be thrilled if it fractured.
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He sees the NATO alliance (correctly!) as a major bulwark against Russian expansionism in Eastern Europe, and would be thrilled if it fractured.
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For the US government, it was an attempt to forestall Soviet expansionism and to garner American companies a share of Iranian oil reserves.
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There are thousands of ingenious, gleaming rifles and handguns in displays about America's gun-rich history of colonialism, immigration, expansionism and vigilante justice.
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The Arab alliance says it aims to foil what Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates regard as Iranian expansionism throughout the Middle East.
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To combat this expansionism, Washington should step up its diplomacy with OBOR–involved states and create alternative financing arrangements to address their infrastructure needs.
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China tightens party control of foreign university ventures China rejects US concerns over South China Sea militarization Mattis takes aim at China military expansionism
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Mr. Trump also aligned with Israel on the need to increase pressure on Iran in hopes of curtailing its expansionism in the Middle East.
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Administration officials said Mr. Trump wanted to mend the alliance with the Philippines as a bulwark against China's expansionism in the South China Sea.
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The rise of China's military and its expansionism in the South and East China Seas, together with North Korea's increasing belligerence, is helping Abe's push.
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When it comes to Russian expansionism in the Western Hemisphere and the Kremlin's abysmal human-rights record, the American left mostly looks the other way.
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Managing the latter and building on the former are the essence of what it will take to more effectively roll back Iranian armament and expansionism.
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The Arab states have been fighting since 2015 to unseat them, restore an exiled Saudi-backed government and halt what they see as Iranian expansionism.
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Trump administration officials have said Mr. Trump wants to improve relations with the Philippines as a bulwark against China's expansionism in the South China Sea.
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The two met during the Arctic Council ministerial in Finland, where the US secretary of state warned of Russian aggression and expansionism in the Arctic region.
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The blue checkmark next to the account's display name has become a major problem for former Eastern bloc countries trying to push back against Russia's expansionism.
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This week, for the first time, his government admitted sending a submarine into the South China Sea, part of a broader effort to rebuff Chinese expansionism.
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Some Vietnamese are so worried about Chinese expansionism that they are lobbying for U.S. forces to return to their war-era base at Cam Ranh Bay.
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The Arab world -- especially Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt -- now have a greater preoccupation: Iranian expansionism in Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen.
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While some administration officials attempted to transform the U.S.'s anti-ISIS intervention in Syria to one intended to stymie Iranian expansionism, Trump rebuffed such efforts.
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The 70-year military alliance among the United States, European nations, and Canada is widely credited with keeping Soviet expansionism at bay during the Cold War.
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Mr. Bolton has long promoted regime change in Iran, argued for bombing Iran and a more assertive American policy against Iranian expansionism in the Middle East.
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In fact, Putin is far from alone in his hostility to what he sees as aggressive NATO expansionism and the threat of American missile defense programs.
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Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates remain united in opposing Iranian expansionism: both support sweeping US sanctions against Tehran and their militaries co-ordinate closely.
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This week, as Bolton assumes his new role, the Iranian market fears the U.S. will pivot to more aggressive policies aimed at curbing Iran's regional expansionism.
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Around 1,300 years ago, descendants and followers of the Prophet Mohammad from Arabia poured out of the Peninsular in an orgy of conquest, expansionism and colonization.
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He views Russia's expansionism in Ukraine and its interference in Syria with alarm and doesn't share Mr Trump's conciliatory views on dealing with Vladimir Putin, Russia's president.
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Riyadh regards Iran's backing for Shi'ite militias in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen as a part of Tehran's regional expansionism and a threat to its own security.
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It is not clear what — or which client — prompted the line of questioning, which asked for views on topics ranging from Mr. Putin's popularity to Russian expansionism.
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He repeatedly compared the Soviets to Nazi Germany, and felt that both the Americans and the Western Europeans had been weak in the face of Moscow's expansionism.
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Much of "Imperfect Union" describes the era of violent expansionism during which the United States annexed both Texas and California, then had to deal with the consequences.
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Russia's goals in Europe appear to be to elect foreign leaders who are sympathetic to Russian expansionism, to weaken NATO and to fan anti-European Union forces.
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And during his four years under Mr. Carter, beginning in 21989, thwarting Soviet expansionism at any cost guided much of American foreign policy, for better or worse.
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We cannot forget it was the excuse of protecting German minorities in Central Europe which Adolf Hitler used to fuel his expansionism in the 1930s and '40s.
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The military alliance was originally formed after World War II to deter Soviet aggression, and today one of its functions is to discourage Russian expansionism in Europe.
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They are drawn from a comprehensive toolset that ranges from cyber attacks to propaganda and subversion, economic blackmail and sabotage, sponsorship of proxy forces and creeping military expansionism.
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It's certainly true that the hangover from Uber's legacy operational style of brash expansionism and thumbing its nose at regulators continues to cause the company problems in Europe.
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Critics of the Moscow Patriarchate call it a fifth column for the Kremlin, used to harbor separatist fighters, store weapons, justify Russian expansionism and spread anti-Ukrainian propaganda.
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Mr. Ryan is an internationalist who favors solidifying alliances like NATO, checking Russia's expansionism and assuming a greater role in East Asia; none of that describes Mr. Trump.
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Perhaps the clearest example appeared in the pages of the conservative Yeni Safak daily, where columnist Ibrahim Karagul made the intellectual case for a revival of Turkish expansionism.
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Strong kinship has led to agreements to better maritime cooperation and an emphasis on developing further U.S.-Japanese security ties with Australia and India to counter Chinese expansionism.
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"However, supporting the UAE and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia against what the U.S. views as Iranian expansionism takes priority over battling AQAP and even stabilizing Yemen," Horton said.
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He stressed the importance of Italy-Russia cooperation, criticized alleged NATO expansionism, called for greater Italian autonomy in foreign policy, and argued that sanctions against Russia should be eliminated.
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As it happens, some Vietnamese are so nervous about Chinese expansionism that they are lobbying for U.S. forces to return to their war-era base at Cam Ranh Bay.
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What's more, Iran's saber rattling and regional expansionism are causing concern among America's allies in the region, from Israel and Egypt to Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf States.
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Beyond that, Saudi-exported, ultra-conservative Wahhabism, which breeds intolerance around the world, is no less dangerous to Western interests than Iran's support for radicalism, regional meddling and expansionism.
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Pompeo will be forced to quickly address a wide array of other international challenges, including long conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, Chinese expansionism in Asia and Russian assertiveness.
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Indeed, the cause is not really a nationalist one: even at the height of Japanese expansionism during the second world war, Japanese stuck to the convention he is now challenging.
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Critics of the Moscow Patriarchate call it a fifth column for the Kremlin, used to harbor pro-Russian separatist fighters, store weapons, justify Russian expansionism and spread anti-Ukrainian propaganda.
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While no trade bill is ever perfect in the particulars, its overarching goal was to contain Chinese expansionism by increasing the economic ties between America and other independent Asian nations.
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Mr. Trump's plan again exposes the power asymmetry between the Palestinians and the Israelis — an imbalance evidenced by the systematic denial of Palestinian rights and the enabling of Israeli expansionism.
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"The experience people remember most from this period is that of Italian fascist expansionism, which many know as a period of repression over the Slovene and Croat population," he said.
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Frustrated by Obama's nuclear deal with Iran and the U.S. pullback from the region, Riyadh launched an Arab military intervention last year to confront perceived Iranian expansionism in its southern neighbor.
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On March 21, Trump said the United States should slash its financial support for NATO, which was formed in 1949 after World War Two and became a bulwark against Soviet expansionism.
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The Houthis are yet another proxy in a campaign of violent expansionism that poses a serious threat to the peace and security of the world and must be confronted and contained.
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Such measures would satisfy pressure on the Iraqi federal government from its Arab and non-Kurdish communities to check Kurdish expansionism and also help pacify Turkish and Iranian worries about instability.
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White House officials said Mr. Trump had called Mr. Duterte in an effort to mend their countries' recently strained relationship, as a bulwark against China's expansionism in the South China Sea.
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PiS, which espouses traditional Catholic values and resistance to what it sees as Russian expansionism in Ukraine and elsewhere, won 26 of 51 seats allotted to Poland in the European Parliament.
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The Cold War–era military alliance was formed to protect Europe from the Soviet Union, and today one of its roles is serving as a bulwark against Russian influence and expansionism.
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They reprised their paean to bilateral over multi-nation trade agreements and trumpeted the abrogation of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which would help check China's economic and strategic expansionism in Asia.
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Two years later, we&aposre asked to believe that this was some secret Russian plot to revive the American economy and rebuild the U.S. military and strengthen Ukraine to resist Russian expansionism.
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"China is experiencing in just three years of expansionism the kind of pushback it took 300 years to muster against some European empires," Khanna, author of "The Future is Asian," tells Axios.
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Even if the country stayed in NATO, as is likely, it would be a passive member, reluctant to push back against Russian expansionism and hostile to the idea of a nuclear deterrent.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was established in April 1949 to serve three objectives: Deterring Soviet expansionism, preventing the revival of militarism in Europe, and encouraging European political and economic integration.
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Both our allies and our adversaries will be straining to ascertain our commitment to various defense treaties as well as our willingness to challenge the ever aggressive expansionism of Russia and China.
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With memories of defeat in the Russo-Japanese War of 21969-219, and competing with Japan for influence in Manchuria, the Soviets needed a strong China as an ally against Japanese expansionism.
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Turkey has long been of immense strategic importance to the West — as a check on Russian expansionism and Islamist fundamentalism; and as an inspiration for secularism and modernization for the Muslim world.
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Racism often drove expansionism, especially with moves against Native Americans like the Homestead Act, as well as foreign wars like the Spanish-American War (yes Jonathan Chait, Bernie would have opposed it).
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Russia should stop positioning itself as equal to the United States and stop pretending its foreign adventures, be they in Syria, Ukraine or Georgia, are part of a global fight against American expansionism.
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China needs to raise its military capabilities to protect its growing overseas interests, its foreign minister said following the launch of China's first domestically built aircraft carrier, while vowing not to pursue expansionism.
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Since she took power in 2016, Tsai has attempted to diversify the island's economy from being too dependent on its large neighbor, while pushing back against what she views as Beijing's aggressive expansionism.
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This diplomatic expansionism, however, tends to have much the same effect as the sea-filling kind: raising alarm and hackles, and driving China's neighbours closer to America—and to suppliers of heavy weaponry.
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The humanities as we know them grew out of more technical forms of language study, or philology, that were developed in European universities in the period of exploration, imperialism, and then colonial expansionism.
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But the Israelis, the Gulf states, and now Trump believed the opposite—that Iran was the principal enemy in the region and that the nuclear pact showed weakness, and only fuelled Iranian expansionism.
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Ukraine's leadership accuses the Moscow-backed faction of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, widely known as the Moscow Patriarchate, of being a tool of the Kremlin to spread Russian propaganda and foster Russian expansionism.
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Otherwise, it will be left out, in effect ceding the area to China and its economic expansionism — and undermining Mr. Trump's stated resolve to adopt a tougher stance toward China on trade issues.
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And Russia's belligerence in recent years, with its meddling and territorial expansion into Ukraine and its involvement in the Syrian civil war, has its neighbors on edge about the possibility of more expansionism.
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Nonetheless, Iran and Russia do not see eye to eye on everything in a relationship shaped by mistrust, a legacy of Iranian resentment of Russia's historical expansionism and Soviet-era attempts at domination.
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It is here that this "Cherry Orchard" comes into blossom, speaking not only to the time of its creation but also to contemporary Russia, with its oligarchs and heedless expansionism, and more universally, too.
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Since his appointment last June, he has presented Saudi Arabia as a modernizing kingdom eager to do business with Wall Street and Silicon Valley while becoming the United States' chief ally against Iranian expansionism.
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They demand subordination to a program of Persian expansionism and radical Khomeinist theology that precludes the freedoms that Iraqis and Lebanese had come to enjoy and others in the region have come to demand.
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"Uniting (our) efforts is the correct path for Iran to realize the futility of its incursions and expansionism," Gargash wrote on his official Twitter account, several hours after a policy speech on Iran by Pompeo.
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In order for America to advance on these and other complicated issues like Chinese and Russian expansionism, we must have the diplomatic resources necessary to take advantage of the negotiating space which has been created.
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But before it became an artifact of Anglo expansionism, the Alamo was known as the Misión San Antonio de Valero, a mission populated mainly by Spanish priests and Indigenous people who had converted to Christianity.
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This can also curtail Chinese expansionism and divert Beijing's resources to protecting its northern and western borders, thus strengthening America's position in defending Japan and South Korea and deterring Beijing's aggression in the Far East.
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NATO is a Cold War–era military alliance that was formed to protect Europe from the Soviet Union, and one of its key roles today is serving as a bulwark against Russian influence and expansionism.
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If you view world affairs through an exclusively mercantilist lens, as Trump does, then America's closest allies (mostly rich democracies) are our biggest enemies and deterring Russian expansionism is a waste of time and money.
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The coalition intervened in Yemen's war in 2015 to try and unseat the Houthis, restore the internationally recognized Yemeni government in exile and thwart what Riyadh and Abu Dhabi see as Iran's expansionism in the region.
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A future where Russia feels less caged by its fears of a mobile democratic curtain and China, unbridled by a united alliance opposing its expansionism, loosens its own fetters and engages in increasingly footloose foreign adventures.
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In the latest example of Turkey's brazen expansionism into Kosovo, it secured the extradition of six Turkish teachers it has accused of belonging to the Gulen movement, which President Erdogan blames for the failed 2016 coup.
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America has an abiding interest in stemming Russian expansionism, and resisting any nation's efforts to remake the map of Europe by dint of military force, even as we have tens of thousands of troops stationed there.
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Third, the Israeli security establishment has a deep-rooted belief that Iranian revisionism and "expansionism" knows no limits, and that the Islamic Republic is hellbent on creating an "aggressive empire" in the Middle East and beyond.
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A report in the New Yorker that the United States will accept Assad's legitimacy until presidential elections in 2021 is troubling, as it undermines the administration's repeated assurances that it is serious about checking Iranian expansionism.
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Closer ties In 2018, the two leaders preliminarily agreed to cooperate on oil and gas exploration in the South China Sea, in a move that angered many Filipinos wary of Chinese territorial expansionism in the region.
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It was signed in 1949 in an effort to contain Soviet expansionism after World War II. The United States currently pays 13 percent of NATO's total costs, which in 2017 amounted to just under $2 billion.
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With Russian military activism in Ukraine and Syria, and a possible invite from Iraq, Turkey is compelled to act in tandem with its Western partners to neutralize Russian expansionism and its propensity to prosper in frozen conflicts.
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Supporting, or at the very least abstaining from, a Security Council resolution that condemns Israel's continuing expansionism would help lay the groundwork for future international efforts toward the larger goals of securing equality and justice for Palestinians.
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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan said on Monday China was practicing "authoritarian expansionism" in the Pacific, pointing to reports of plans for Chinese military presence in two Pacific countries that have recently switched diplomatic allegiance to Beijing from Taipei.
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He's such a staunch advocate for Israeli expansionism that he's argued that liberal American Jews who advocate for the two-state solution are "worse" than kapos — Jews who helped Nazis run concentration camps in exchange for special privileges.
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The big picture: The administration's ostensible end goal is not only to harm Iran's economy, but also to bring about a change in the country's policies — namely its ballistic missile program and regional expansionism — or to its regime.
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Regardless of who is behind the attacks, stabilizing Aden is a priority for the Saudis, not only to counter Islamist militants, but to show that Riyadh's aggressive intervention to stop what it sees as Iranian expansionism is working.
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While American forces in Japan have never been used in armed defense of the Japanese homeland, they were used as a deterrent against Russian expansionism into Asia, and are now being used against China for the same purposes.
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The fact there was a war cabinet at all reflected the reality that Churchill was right about Hitler and the Nazis all along, while Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasement had failed utterly in stopping German expansionism.
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The year saw Donald Trump's protectionism, Chinese expansionism, a reborn nationalism in India and Japan, Iranian empire-building, and Russian opportunism all combine to undermine the international cooperation that has sustained the 70-year-old postwar global order.
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In telling the lives of the husband and wife John and Jessie Frémont, it covers an era of violent expansionism during which the United States annexed both Texas and California and then had to deal with the consequences.
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Iran has invested heavily in deepening its influence in an arc from Iraq through Syria to Lebanon and will not give up its strategic gains without a fight, even as US sanctions make its expansionism difficult to afford.
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A critical proponent of Western expansionism, Roosevelt is beloved by many for his rough-riding crusade through Cuba during the Spanish-American War, a conflict that culminated in America's annexation of Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Guam, and the Philippines.
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With ISIS still capable of reconstituting itself and Iran no longer checked by U.S. forces along the Euphrates, the twin scourges of Iranian expansionism and Sunni extremism will further fuel each other in a vicious and incredibly destabilizing cycle.
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HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam's prime minister has urged a greater U.S. role in preventing militarization and island-building in the South China Sea, the government said on Tuesday, in a rare call for Washington's support to curb Beijing's maritime expansionism.
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Van Houtryve's series is something of a correction to US history textbooks, which fail to highlight the history above; instead, they often encapsulate this complicated period of land switching hands through the ideologies of manifest destiny and western expansionism.
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That (and other alleged expansionism by Iran, in Yemen, for example) has in turn prompted a much harder line toward Tehran by Saudi Arabia, whose young Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman likened Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to Adolf Hitler.
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The story is set entirely in the past, but its depiction of the stubborn delusions that fueled American expansionism — and the ways in which "proving up" comes to mean both having a home and being a virile man — feels entirely current.
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Consequently, once the Union won the war, officials in London were worried that a reunified United States, now firmly under Republican Party political control and in possession of an enormous army, would seek revenge by launching a new round of expansionism.
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The goal was to create a powerful military alliance to contain Soviet expansionism after World War II. While NATO leaders wouldn't say this publicly now, the alliance still exists mainly as a way to deter Russian aggression on the European continent.
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But the divisions among the Gulf Cooperation Council not only make that more difficult, they create a distraction from the central challenges in the region — whether it is Iranian expansionism or the danger of ISIS re-emerging in a different guise.
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The goal was to create a powerful military alliance to contain Soviet expansionism after World War II. While NATO leaders probably wouldn't say this publicly, the alliance still exists mainly as a way to deter Russian aggression on the European continent.
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Otherwise, they would have a (reasonable) suspicion that as secretary of state, he might potentially try to undermine the sanctions regime against Russia, which they see as an essential bulwark against Russian expansionism and interference in the American political process.
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Democratic and Republican Russia hawks would be sure to argue that lifting the sanctions without getting Putin to make any concessions on Ukraine would tacitly endorse Russia's expansionism and deal a huge blow to the credibility of sanctions as a diplomatic tool.
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There have been ups and downs in diplomatic relations over the years; but Russian expansionism is now bringing America's security policy closer to the Nordics, even though Sweden and Finland are not members of NATO and, at least in theory, are non-aligned.
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The United States, Israel and Saudi Arabia, the keeper of Islam's Two Holy Cities, are banding together to roll back the tide of Iranian expansionism set loose by Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaMississippi lieutenant governor survives GOP runoff for governor A 'nation of laws'?
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The thousands of acres of new land built by China in the form of artificial islands or expanded reefs in the Spratly Islands off the coast of the Philippines — an extraordinary act of lawless territorial expansionism — will also be part of the discussions.
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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said his death will make Iran "more decisive" in its resistance against the U.S. "Soleimani's martyrdom will make Iran more decisive to resist America's expansionism and to defend our Islamic values," Rouhani said on state television, Reuters reported.
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Many members of Congress, including several of Trump's fellow Republicans, are concerned the president will not take a hard enough line in dealings with Russia to combat Russian expansionism in eastern Europe or its support for Syria's government in that country's civil war.
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BERLIN – The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, known as NATO, grew largely out of Cold War fears of Soviet aggression and expansionism, prompted by a Moscow-backed communist coup in Czechoslovakia, the Soviet blockade of Berlin that led to the Berlin Airlift, and other incidents.
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In the new reality of the late 1920s, as Turkey was grappling with the violence of the nation-state and a still-disputed series of genocides, massacres, displacements, and population transfers, one might assume there would have been little time to rethink old-school expansionism.
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This is the old Williamsburg, back in the day, before it was synonymous with white expansionism and became grist for trend stories about beards, brew pubs and organic toys for pets, specifically the Williamsburg known in Spanish as Los Sures — the Souths or Southside.
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Although Trump has frequently assailed Iran's aggressive behavior beyond its borders, he offhandedly announced last Thursday that he would "very soon" pull out the 2,000 American troops in Syria — where, by opposing Bashar al-Assad, they are also holding the line against expansionism by Iran.
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All three peoples share common enemies: the bloody expansionism of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the ominous build-up of Iran's rocketry and bomb-making operations, and the menacing spread of Islamic extremism that is claiming lives from San Bernardino to Paris.
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Yes, American foreign policy interests would be advanced if there is resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but not at the expense of endangering the security interests of its indispensable ally Israel — security interests that are vital to combating Iranian, Turkish and Russian expansionism.
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Trump wants to encourage Russian expansionism, which directly threatens the norm against wars for territory that helped keep the peace after World War II. Trump's wishy-washy stance on NATO and Russia is even scarier — the uncertainty it creates could quite literally cause World War III.
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Donald Trump's abiding affection for Russia and his ambiguous, confusing threats to withdraw from NATO or weaken it unless member states start spending more on defense has raised doubts about the sturdiness of the military alliance, originally formed after World War II to counter Soviet expansionism.
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"Perhaps because we're able to keep this multilateral framework (nuclear deal), avoid the worst and act as a mediator, while the U.S. sanctions create pressure and reduce the amount of money available for Iran's expansionism, that can accelerate the process we want," French President Emmanuel Macron told reporters.
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Iran, home to the only constitution in the world with expansionism as a founding tenet, maintains vassal states or proxy militias in four Arab countries and Gaza; terror cells in the Gulf and reservoirs of recruitment in central Asia; and a web of lethal alliances across the African continent.
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It allows Zakaria to escape the myth that America was ever isolationist, to demonstrate a certain continuity in American expansionism whether triumphant or thwarted and to identify the second Cleveland Administration not as a last hurrah for an old diplomacy but as the first hurrah for a new.
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"Netanyahu seeks votes to stay in power through accusations against Iran and later he announces a malicious intent to annex yet another part of Palestine so he can stay in power and carry on with expansionism and aggression," Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi was quoted as saying by Tasnim.
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In Iraq working with moderate Sunni elements, preventing the creation of Iranian-sponsored Shia militia, and pressuring Baghdad to keep its distance from Tehran might well have led not simply to the defeat of ISIS but the establishment of a stable, independent government thereafter and countered Iranian expansionism.
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In addition, the Trump administration should take firm stands against China on its malign policies, from mercantilist measures to military expansionism, but should avoid overreacting to hard-line actions by President Xi Jinping and the Communist Party while searching for areas of cooperation with Beijing, the report said.
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Still, it's a pretty sad state of affairs when the smartest move Trump could make was canceling meetings -- with Putin, for instance, when a direct, face-to-face confrontation might even have helped put a brake on Russian expansionism in the Black Sea and reclaiming of power in eastern Ukraine.
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The fear of Russian expansionism—of a West one misstep away from losing its prominence on the global stage—is both a 20 th and 21 st century fear, one which Singularity explores in its limited way by making a late night sci-fi movie out of an enduring cultural anxiety.
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"Unlike the apology politics between Japan and other Asian countries, most Japanese understand that it's a very high hurdle for an American leader to apologize," Mr. Watanabe said, referring to disputes over wartime history between Japan and the victims of its early 20th-century imperial expansionism, notably China and South Korea.
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Instead, working with a hardened force of about 30,000 local fighters, together with U.S. air and artillery support, the White House has set out to accomplish the limited, yet still strategically significant, goal of initially containing, rather than confronting, Iran's expansionism — not the least by preventing its takeover of new territory.
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Yet in Europe, where disintegration is, as both Macron and Soros tell us, a stark possibility, a geopolitical catastrophe looms – breaking links of cooperation and joint projects, fragmenting NATO and thus encouraging Russian and Chinese expansionism and subversion, ruining economies forced to return to previous national currencies, causing investment, wages and pensions to plunge.
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But though the constitution issue has been a driving priority for Abe and the right-wing of the LDP, most other parties in parliament are fiercely opposed to changing the current document, which was formulated in reaction to Japanese expansionism and militarism before and during the war and has long been a point of pride for the country.
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"There are a lot of voices in Washington that are either sharply or harshly critical of China's actions in trade, in their military expansionism, in their actions in the South China Sea — fill in the blank," Senator Chris Coons, a Democrat senator from Delaware, said in an interview in Beijing late last month after meeting Chinese officials.
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And while largely rejecting the footprint-in-every-city expansionism of its peers — it set up a permanent space in Paris in 1999 and just added a new space there, after opening a London gallery only two years ago — it has still been able to attract sought-after young artists like Julie Mehretu and Adrián Villar Rojas.
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It is not far-fetched to think that if a progressive Democrat becomes president, the U.S. might follow the European Union in supporting Palestinian expansionism into Area C of the West Bank, against the Oslo Accords, to help facilitate a Palestinian state, vote against Israel at the United Nations and cut U.S. military aid and security cooperation.
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Julian Barnes and Helene Cooper at the New York Times reported on Tuesday that in 2018, Trump said several times that he wanted to remove the US from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a military alliance between the US, Canada, and multiple European countries signed in 1949 to contain Soviet expansionism after World War II. Go behind the scenes.
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Trump administration officials have scolded China for not doing enough to pressure North Korea over its nuclear program; criticized what they call Chinese military expansionism in the Pacific and Indian Oceans; and are weighing sanctions against Chinese officials for the repression of ethnic Uighurs in the region of Xinjiang, where up to one million Uighurs are being detained in re-education camps.
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And those same problems -- US backing of Syria's Kurds over ally Turkey's objections, Iran's use of Syria's civil war to advance its own hegemonic regional interests, Israel's pent-up frustrations at Iran's expansionism, Turkey's battle with the Kurds, Assad's continued bloodletting even in the suburbs of his own capital, and Russia's intent to impose an unworkable peace -- are all coming to a head.
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Russia, he writes, has "regained its innate status of a great power: it is growing in size and assembling land inhabited by people linked by a common heritage… This starring role... was assigned to our country by world history" In other words, as Surkov and his boss see it, Russian expansionism and imperial activity — previously seen in parts of the "post-Soviet space" — is a matter of historical destiny.
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But even if the Republican Congress refuses to ratify the treaty, it's not unreasonable to think that Trump - who met with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in New York on Thursday - might be swayed by those like distinguished Japanese political scientist, Yoichi Funabashi, who argues that the United States would be ceding the Asia-Pacific region to China's economic expansionism if Washington doesn't participate in multilateral trade agreements.
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Democrats failing to identify strong foreign policy issues could be a missed opportunity to attract a base of not only Ukrainian Americans, but a wider swath of American immigrants from Eastern Europe equally concerned with Russian expansionism and Putin's threats to the U.S.Dobriansky of the UCCA says that foreign policy has barely registered in most of the Democratic debates and Republicans may abandon mentioning Ukraine to avoid talks of the impeachment.
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As Kun poignantly sums up in the catalogue: To speak of the contemporary border is to speak of nineteenth-century US expansionism and twentieth-century economic imperialism, decades of labor recruitment and labor deterrence, post-WWII industrialization and post-9/11 terror wars, pro-trade policies and anti-drug policies, Mexican drug supply and U.S. drug consumption, the pursuit of human rights and the violation of human rights, U.S. golf courses with their ninth holes in Mexico and two-bedroom American homes with the Border Wall in their backyard, and the open frontier of the Old West and the carceral frontier of the New West, where campfires become klieg lights and young mothers carry their infants across live gunnery ranges because, somehow, they're safer than the open desert.
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