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tions. Although confidence in America has waned significantly, it is still looked to for leadership in thwarting the designs of thugs like Russia's Vladimir Putin, Syria's Bashar Assad and Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei. Yet President Obama has followed a deliberate policy of disengagement from the world's quarre
cy of disengagement from the world's quarrels. He failed to bluff Assad with his "red line" threat and then turned the Syrian bloodbath over to Mr. Putin, showing a weakness that no doubt emboldened the Russian president to launch his aggression against Ukraine. The errant Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri
in thwarting the designs of thugs like Russia's Vladimir Putin, Syria's Bashar Assad and Iran's Ayatollah
significantly, it is still looked to for leadership in thwarting the designs of thugs like Russia's Vladimir Putin, Syria's Bashar Assad and Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei. Yet President Obama has followed a deliberate policy of disengagement from the world's quarrels. He failed to bluff Assad with his "red line" thre
agreement was signed, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping issued a joint
the gas agreement was signed, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping issued a
S. hegemony into a more genuinely multipolar order. At the Asian security summit in Shanghai where the gas agreement was signed, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping issued a joint statement calling on all nations to "give up the language of unilateral sanctions" and stop aiding
_R1_00024220 EFTA01737590 Iran's nuclear debate is technically the domain of the Supreme National Security Council, which advises Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei. He will have the last word. But there is a smaller committee—including Iran's new President, Hassan Rouhani—that has worked out specific terms for
Portugal, elections in 2015 will be worth watching as they will dramaticall= shape up the future of Europe in the making. 5. =ussia's future all in Putin's hands: One of the safest predictions for 2015 is that Ru=sians will have a tough year. Besides the sliding oil price, high interest rates =o defen
sanctions (sla=ped on Moscow by the United States and Europe because of Ukraine) are a toxic combination. The unanswerable question is how President Vladimir Putin will respond. Will he double down, seeking closer ties with 19 EFTA_R1_02158013 EFTA02716864 China, India and the rest of Asia and causing misch
tion. The unanswerable question is how President Vladimir Putin will respond. Will he double down, seeking
calls on its supporters overseas to launch attacks, as it did th=s past September. 3. =o nuclear agreement will be struck between the US and Iran: Ayatollah Khamenei won't go all the way on a deal, while the P5+1, which will drop its demands on the disclosure of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps role in the
nalists, it was socialist, anti-Israel and anti-Western alliance—everything the Soviets could desire. The relationship with Syria has thrived under Putin—but at a cost to Russia. Moscow has forgiven almost three-quarters of Damascus's massive debt in order to lure lucrative weapons orders. Not long a
ong-un bowed before his Western master? None capitulated even to the American superpower. Thus, it's hard to believe that you truly calculate that Ayatollah Khamenei will cry "uncle." And if it is to be war, it won't be only Israel's war. Yes, Israel will bear the greatest risks in a war now or a war if Iran has
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Barack Obama
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George W. Bush
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Prince Andrew
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Bill Clinton
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United States
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Marc Rich
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Hillary Clinton
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Samantha Power
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Tehran
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Lebanon
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Bashar al-Assad
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Abraham Lincoln
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Condoleezza Rice
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Damascus
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Terje Rod-Larsen
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Saddam Hussein
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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