Posted on 08/24/2020 8:56:07 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Despite being hailed as a "peace deal," the UAE-Israel agreement will more likely prolong ongoing regional wars. It will intensify conflict in those contested zones of the Middle East where the two blocs back rival actors -- primarily Yemen, Libya, and Syria. The insurgent bloc is winning in all three conflicts.
The UAE has proved that its main strategy in these conflicts is to control the policymaking of its allies. Emirati leaders have leveraged their relationships in Riyadh and Washington over the last three years to give them or their proxies a free hand to fight in these contested zones. Yet at the moment of their great diplomatic success, the UAE is currently stumbling militarily in all three theaters.
The UAE and Israel are the United States' two biggest regional allies, and for good reason. They possess cutting-edge economies and share certain values with the West such as religious tolerance, intelligence-sharing in the global fight against terrorism, and rigorous protections of private property. Nonetheless, both have exhibited an authoritarian turn over the last decade. Unfortunately, instead of providing the Emiratis with tough love -- which might have reoriented their regional ambitions toward consensus-building -- the Trump administration has acquiesced to their dreams of regional domination.
It has taken a similar approach toward Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, abandoning the traditional U.S. role of mediator between Israel and its adversaries, and instead condoning all of Netanyahu's excesses when it comes to settlement expansion, the increasing militarization of Israeli foreign policy, and corrupt, discriminatory, and undemocratic domestic practices.
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libya
Peace is War!!
When DT is POTUS.
He could heal cripples and the ####ing headline on google would be...
TRUMP TRIES TO CUT FUNDS FOR THE DISABLED
The op-ed is full of **** and anti-Israel, Islamofascist talking points.
"FOR BEHOLD, in those days and at that time when I shall reverse the captivity and restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, I will gather all nations and will bring them down into the Valley of Jehoshaphat, and there will I deal with and execute judgment upon them for their treatment of My people and of My heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations and because they have divided My land." (Joel 3:1-2)
What war in Libya?
Does he mean the massacre the last occupant of the White House and his idiot SecState initiated for absolutely no reason at all?
It’s just muslim’s doing muslim sh*t. It’s all they know. Only reason there isn’t more of it in the region is that many of the countries have very strong and heavy handed leadership that knows how to deal with their BS. Much like Hussein, Ghadafi, Sisi and Assad. If not for that, just give them more ammunition and eventually they’ll exterminate themselves.
I haven't looked up the author's curriculum vitae, maybe he was part of the coup in Libya and/or Egypt and/or elsewhere in Obamanation's "Arab Spring".
Oh good - this means just the opposite is going to happen. Yemen and Libya are about to leave the Iran sphere of influence.
Is the author’s middle name “Fudge” ?
My feelings exactly; I know Trump got it right when the “I’m-a-very-self-assured-bloody-freaking-exepert-on-these-very-complex-matters-you-know,-you-know” people get their nipples in a knot and tell us he’s destroyed the world.
lol
Nickname :)
/bingo
I looked at the latest issue of “Foreign Policy” yesterday and saw that it was further Left and anti-American than before.
“Foreign Affairs” journal was much more balanced in its day that “FP” ever was. Now it’s openly anti-America. Like Biden, they have come out of the closet.
meh
Nonsense...
Democrats can’t do things, so all they can do is trash others
for doing them, and then make up stuff to make it look like
it was the worst deal ever.
Trump could have gotten them to sign on if only he had
delivered pallets of case in the deal, and helped the UAE
develop nuclear weapons.
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