... interacting with the Permanent American Envoy to the UN, Samantha Power. She has always held relatively adversarial positions toward Russia and recently made major headlines when she accused Russia of engaging in disinformation campaigns in Syria and called ... ... opposition groups: not just the fact that they suffered from horrific internal dissension, but that there were far too many radical Islamists mixed in liberally with so-called “moderate Arabs”. Because of the torturous hell that was the Chechen ...
... evidence seems to indicate that might be the biggest mistaken assumption of all. China and Pakistan Most discussions of an immediate drone rival to the United States begin and usually end with China. At last count China supposedly had over 900 different ... ... easily be sucked into regional conflicts where its interests figure prominently. It is inconceivable to think a ‘drone war’ between Iran and Saudi Arabia or Egypt would not end up being a major national security interest for the United States....
Though Syria has somewhat fallen off the media radar in the West because of a Malaysian plane crashing into ... ... its aftermath. Russia, however, with its unique perspective on radical Islamism because of the long and bloody conflict with Chechnya,... ... to actively encourage and support its development, Russia has warily seen it as a potential ‘Great Islamist Revolution.... ... and legitimate national security objectives than they do with Cold War nostalgia or knee-jerk anti-Americanism. Russia sees its ...