"We are prepared, we're prepared militarily, we're prepared with our allies to respond militarily," Tillerson told reporters, speaking at the close of US-Japan security meetings with Defense Secretary James Mattis.
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"We are prepared, we're prepared militarily, we're prepared with our allies to respond militarily," Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told reporters, speaking at the close of US-Japan security meetings with Mattis.
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Yet the ELN might still prove harder to defeat militarily.
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For now, the rebels believe they can cling on militarily.
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And finally, you have got to go after them militarily.
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When we're weak militarily it doesn't matter what we say.
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Right now, we are prepped militarily to attack North Korea.
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Militarily, all eyes will be on how Trump interacts NATO.
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But could the US and China come to blows militarily?
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Nigeria's new president is determined to crush Boko Haram militarily.
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Israel undoubtedly could retake Gaza militarily but has other considerations.
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Such missions could expand under a more militarily unified bloc.
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"Militarily, we will be less effective," he said. Maj. Gen.
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After all, Israel can defeat Hamas militarily, but then what?
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Paul argued that the U.S. is already stretched thin militarily.
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Conquering a country doesn't just mean defeating its forces militarily.
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Throwing money at adversaries or disengaging militarily won't end wars.
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It is a delicate moment politically as well as militarily.
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Trump has previously responded militarily to reported chemical weapons use.
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But we cannot do something that militarily doesn't make sense.
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Israel has responded to this perceived threat militarily and politically.
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China may be strong militarily but it can't drop into Delhi.
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Badjie said the situation needed to be solved politically, not militarily.
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If in fact you respond militarily you create an escalatory cycle.
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That would be fine if it were stronger militarily or economically.
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Live-streaming a military operation has obvious disadvantages, not least militarily.
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How will Trump react when a foreign power tests him militarily?
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Defeating ISIS militarily is important, but it only treats the symptom.
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" But, he added, "You can stop North Korea militarily or diplomatically.
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Israel and Russia coordinate militarily in Syria to avoid accidental clashes.
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This is a guy who believes that he can militarily win.
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India is not as strong militarily as the numbers might suggest.
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" Space, he said, is "going to be important monetarily and militarily.
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Despite growing pressure in 1949 to respond militarily, Acheson steadfastly refused.
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How has the Iraqi army been doing this year, militarily speaking?
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Mr. Trump's national security advisers split about whether to respond militarily.
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He framed it as a way to checkmate the Russians militarily.
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But with the country that militarily, is not particularly a threat.
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The West almost certainly would not oppose such a move militarily.
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"I never talk about what I do militarily," Mr. Trump said.
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Norway is a NATO member, while Finland is militarily non-allied.
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Politically and militarily, the potential applications of such technology are infinite.
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Among the kingdoms, only Dorne managed to successfully resist Aegon militarily.
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" "The Islamic State is on the back foot militarily, it's losing territory.
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But it is more important politically and symbolically than it is militarily.
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They would do anything to make their country militarily ready for war.
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In Syria, Islamic State still holds some territory but has suffered militarily.
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I've done everything in my power to serve it militarily and privately.
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Then-paratrooper Chavez attempted to seize power militarily in 1992 though failed.
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But New Delhi is not about to get involved militarily, says Shukla.
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Russia could support its ally militarily, playing nuclear chicken with the Washington.
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Although Iran is militarily defeated, neither side achieves all of its objectives.
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And curiously, the Taliban, although militarily in the ascendance, also wants one.
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Under what conditions might China get involved militarily to defend North Korea?
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"Bolton pressed to attack Iran militarily at almost every turn," said Kilduff.
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Militarily speaking, the so-called Islamic State has been defeated in Syria.
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China, on the other hand, was described as economically and militarily ascendant.
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The United States should stop investing in Afghanistan both militarily and otherwise.
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France continues to keep a heavy hand in Africa, militarily and economically.
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America has been militarily involved in Afghanistan for more than 17 years.
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Militarily, it will be a significant blow to the capabilities of US forces.
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They need to be defeated militarily, and that will take overwhelming U.S. force.
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Would you be prepared to move militarily if Russia moves on Eastern Europe?
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It will take Sunni Arabs to reject them ideologically and defeat them militarily.
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The US has condemned Iran's actions but hasn't responded militarily to the provocations.
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But China is the big threat to America&aposs dominance militarily and economically.
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Why pick a fight with one of our closest allies, economically and militarily?
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One answer is that Qatar is stubbornly independent, weak militarily and incredibly rich.
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"At the time the U.S. had a lot of credibility" militarily, he said.
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But Washington has dismissed as baseless suggestions it is planning to intervene militarily.
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Because we're getting very big in space, both militarily and for other reasons.
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Although the Y.P.G. was prevailing militarily, the Obama Administration remained leery of it.
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War—for a moment, as peacekeepers, trying to save militarily what was lost
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The Sovereign must be militarily correct and yet there is this feminizing input.
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"This is not going to be won militarily," Miller told the news network.
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But the Ukrainians refused to fold, and they are looking increasingly confident militarily.
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The United States would always have the right to respond militarily if warranted.
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Analysts and US officials say it is unlikely that China would intervene militarily.
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The Haqqani network is the Taliban's most independent and militarily effective fighting force.
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Second, the United States should continue to refrain from deposing Mr. Assad militarily.
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"This new strategy means the Taliban cannot win militarily," said the commander, Gen.
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" Asked if that meant militarily, Pompeo said, "they're going to be held accountable.
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Can't North Korea already retaliate militarily and cause massive damage to U.S. interests?
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Israel and Iran have also clashed militarily over Iran&aposs military presence in Syria.
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This ban -- so broad and discriminatory in scope -- weakens us both morally and militarily.
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They&aposre aggressive geopolitically, economically, militarily with the phony islands that they&aposve built.
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After Brexit, Britain faces exclusion from the most militarily sensitive encrypted part of Galileo.
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I don't think they have done that much ultimately to end the war militarily.
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America's name is blackened enough by its unwillingness to act militarily to remove Assad.
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Well, it turns out one of our great advantages militarily is our undersea technology.
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With Assad strengthening his position militarily, relations with some countries have started to thaw.
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"The Philippines is very important to me strategically and militarily," Trump told Bloomberg News.
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But as it grew stronger, economically and militarily, it returned to its Russian roots.
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We're involved militarily but we won't help them, in fact we do the opposite.
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But militarily it's largely symbolic and not designed to take on U.S. air power.
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Failure on both fronts could drag the United States back into the region militarily.
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" He also added: "My assessment is the Taliban also realizes they cannot win militarily.
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But militarily it's largely symbolic and not designed to take on U.S. air power.
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His argument has been: Defeating the Islamic State is militarily feasible, but then what?
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Pressure is growing on the United States and its Western allies to intervene militarily.
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The North Koreans are not stupid: They know they're militarily outclassed by their enemies.
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Assad wants to recover "every inch" of Syria and is already militarily on top.
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The Ukraine conflict will not be ended militarily, at least in the foreseeable future.
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The exercises were not militarily significant, and the three nations have plenty of differences.
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All in all, America remains far ahead of China, or any other rival, militarily.
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He added the United Sates did not need to respond militarily to Iran's attack.
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In the next six months, the Islamic State will be militarily defeated in Iraq.
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Unilateral American military action against North Korea would be politically foolish and militarily disastrous.
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U.S. presence provided the infrastructure for other partners to contribute financially, diplomatically and militarily.
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We face China that is now doing more militarily than they've ever done before.
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They're not just about stepping up militarily to deter Iran's ambitions in the region.
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We cannot ask our military to keep solving problems that cannot be solved militarily.
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Militarily, China is surpassing Russia, which faces major budget cuts as the economy stagnates.
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A White House strategy review focuses on options for pressuring Pyongyang economically and militarily.
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And most important, Berlin's limited hard power makes it militarily dependent on the United States.
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It told Washington not to intervene militarily, warning outside interference was the path to bloodshed.
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Militarily speaking, expanding the fight to ISIS' Syrian stronghold before success in Mosul is unwise.
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Traditionally, China has held leverage over Taiwan in three key ways: militarily, economically and geopolitically.
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If the Iranian-backed Shia militia enter the city, Ankara says it may intervene militarily.
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Ja&aposafari said Syria reserves the right to retake Idlib militarily if reconciliation talks fail.
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Before his election, Trump repeatedly urged Obama not to intervene militarily in the Syrian conflict.
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Boko Haram has not been defeated, whether militarily or politically, and that much is apparent.
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Militarily, they were masterfully done-on target, little collateral damage, and minimal risks of escalation.
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They need to step back militarily and step up financially and work together with Europe.
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A number of less militarily active southern factions have been in talks with the government.
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The GNA is largely aligned with Misrata, the most militarily powerful city in western Libya.
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These techniques allow a weaker power to take on a nation that is militarily superior.
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In what situations would Speaker Ryan push a Trump White House to intervene militarily abroad?
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Countries are regularly compared with one another politically, financially or militarily — so why not rectangularly?
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Now Washington's adversaries are stronger militarily, and see that the old strictures no longer apply.
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Finally, a militarily stronger China worsens preexisting tensions between China and some of its neighbors.
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Saudi Arabia and the Emirates intervened militarily, funding and training Yemeni forces opposing the Houthis.
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Their assassinations and killings are not militarily significant, more acts of protest against Indian rule.
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"We have to reassert ourselves as the real Asian power: economically, militarily, culturally, politically." video
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Finally, the Trump administration loudly reiterated its resolve to crush Iran economically and, potentially, militarily.
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They were concerned Ukraine would be emboldened to act out militarily and overplay its hand.
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It is not time to react militarily, but it is past time to react effectively.
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We don't know exactly where we're at in the world militarily and what we're doing.
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We are an independent country that has chosen for 200 years to be militarily nonaligned.
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Instead, China's astounding economic development has led to a stronger and more militarily assertive power.
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His massive military exercises along NATO's border signal a willingness to be more aggressive militarily.
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Mr. Modi ratcheted up the rhetoric against Pakistan and suggested that India would retaliate militarily.
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But "victory" against ISIS in Iraq is not a simple case of eradicating the organization militarily.
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But as of now, the U.S. is far behind its rivals in organizing militarily in space.
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Syria also wants the Golan Heights, militarily useful land Israel seized during their 1967 war, back.
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Removing it would "overwhelm the Europeans politically, financially and militarily," said Michael Rühle, a NATO official.
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The U.S. benefits economically, politically, and militarily from stability in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
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The US saw this as a threat to regional security, and decided to militarily push back.
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The idea that China is getting stronger militarily, I mean, their economy is obviously doing better.
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And if peace is not forthcoming, it may prove harder to defeat militarily than the FARC.
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Russia did not intervene militarily, but was in close contact with Armenian politicians during the protests.
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Militarily, the strikes seem to be a singular action attached to no publicly announced policy objectives.
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But it had to grant the Americans the right to intervene militarily whenever they saw fit.
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And he knows the main thing: a president is to keep us safe economically and militarily.
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NATO has been active militarily in Afghanistan, trained Iraqi troops, and provided earthquake relief in Pakistan.
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He added that Trump should respond militarily, as he did following a similar report last year.
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The difficulty of making progress militarily will make a negotiated solution more attractive to the Kremlin.
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The Europe paid for, organized and defended under direct influence of America militarily, economically and culturally?
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Over the last two years, Germany has played a more active global role, diplomatically and militarily.
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If not this, then what is the threshold for Saudi Arabia to respond militarily against Iran?
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"The solution is to topple the criminal regime militarily," the group's spokesman said in a statement.
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President Trump continues to support MBS politically, and the Pentagon backs his war in Yemen militarily.
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Russia has unflinchingly protected the Assad government both militarily and at the United Nations Security Council.
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There was a time when keeping Europe together, politically, economically and militarily, was an American priority.
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"We don't know exactly where we're at in the world, militarily, and what we're doing," Sen.
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Second, that no nation be able to approach the United States militarily ... Those are the goals.
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France and Germany together equal Russia's population, enormously outweigh the country economically and outspend it militarily.
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Militarily, Germany and Europe depend on the United States, too, still ducking under its nuclear umbrella.
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Some left those meetings with the impression that the U.S. was serious about confronting China militarily.
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But the risk of further output shocks will linger while Libya remains politically and militarily divided.
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And remember, China doesn't play by the same rules as we do, economically, diplomatically, or militarily.
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Unless we could do something that changed the equation, the Israelis were going to act militarily.
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" Pence said that the United States will "continue to engage" in Syria but added, "not militarily.
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Mexicans and other Hispanics have militarily served the United States before there was a United States.
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He said, 'Woe betide anyone who militarily challenges the United States,' and that is his portfolio.
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" Goldfein added "we have to respond militarily very often to the effects globally of climate change.
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Those contributions continue even though the group has been defeated militarily in both Iraq and Syria.
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With its militarily and economically strategic location Derbent thrived, evolving into a major administrative and religious center.
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And it&aposs also not clear that he would militarily be able to unroot Iran from Syria.
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Nomura noted that investors have increasingly asked about whether Russia might become militarily aggressive in Eastern Europe.
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I haven&apost seen, so far, North Korea make a comparable gesture militarily that would match that.
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That force, also roughly the number we now field in Iraq, is sustainable both militarily and politically.
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Overseas, China threatens Japan not just in economic terms but, as it grows more assertive, militarily too.
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But on the positive side of the ledger, ISIS has been militarily defeated in Syria and Iraq.
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This would prove to be a mistaken assumption once the United States withdrew militarily from the region.
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On Thursday last week she said the EU must now strengthen militarily in response to Trump's victory.
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The list also demands that Qatar align itself militarily, politically, economically and socially with other Gulf nations.
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Russia hopes Trump will give Russia a freer hand there and cooperate militarily to fight Islamic State.
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He discusses the instinct for the foreign policy establishment to intervene militarily with all these disastrous results.
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Instead, Washington has worked to help them militarily as they battle ISIS and other factions in Syria.
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When Mr Obama claimed that America was not enfeebled militarily, many Republican congressmen emitted a scandalised gasp.
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" Trump told Bloomberg News on Monday that "the Philippines is very important to me strategically and militarily.
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Still, Clinton flashed her hawkish side in defending the Obama administration's decision to intervene militarily in Libya.
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I don't think we should forget how militarily active the US has been throughout the Obama administration.
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This approach has given "political supremacy" to the Taliban as they are gaining militarily, the message said.
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It is dangerous for America to help its competitor, a communist country, grow both economically and militarily.
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Militarily, China has developed systems and doctrines to deny U.S. carriers and troops access to East Asia.
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I THINK IT WAS BECAUSE THE TRUTH IS, YOU MUST BE STRONG ECONOMICALLY TO BE STRONG MILITARILY.
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China is likely planning to give the United States a "bloody nose" in Asia — economically and militarily.
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Victoria presided over a global empire as her nation rose to its apex economically, militarily and technologically.
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More broadly, both Cairo and Jerusalem fear Washington is disengaging from the Middle East militarily and diplomatically.
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Russia, for instance, did not retaliate militarily after Turkey shot down its jet in 2015, he noted.
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Ghobash also said the blockade was "not going to escalate militarily," according to the report on Wednesday.
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A Trump administration could become involved in future diplomatic talks and also coordinate with the Russians militarily.
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"That's a lot, but it's cost inefficient, militarily ineffective and lacks political weight and impact," he said.
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He stopped short, however, at least in his public statements, from offering to back the Kurds militarily.
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But Mr. Tillerson described an agenda that suggests an alarming eagerness to confront Iran, perhaps even militarily.
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If China does intervene militarily, Congress will explode and there will be negative consequences, the official added.
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Historically, Republicans were associated with fiscal conservatism, free trade and standing up militarily to autocrats in Moscow.
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Called "Unrestricted Warfare," the book argues that China does not need to match the United States militarily.
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The Duterte administration's response to Islamist extremism so far has been to try to crush it militarily.
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But no NATO allies are stepping forward with significant support to help Turkey directly or militarily. Sen.
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It could "coordinate" with the Russians militarily, something Mr. Obama's defense secretary, Ashton B. Carter, has resisted.
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Militarily-neutral Finland shares a 1,340 km-long border and difficult history with Russia, its former ruler.
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Militarily, this was a measured response that severely damaged Syrian aircraft and infrastructure at Al Shayrat airfield.
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With increased intelligence sharing, military aid, and special advisors, the Nigerian government will rout Boko Haram militarily.
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" In August, Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar claimed that Iran was the group's "largest backer financially and militarily.
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Trump will, however, respond militarily when Americans are killed or wounded by Iran or its proxy forces.
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He added that the Islamic Republic is "the largest backer financially and militarily" to Hamas' military wing.
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Whether Lam can handle the repercussions of a decision to clamp down militarily is much less clear.
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These are the vital products which the Department of Defense includes on its Militarily Critical Technologies List.
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The reality is that the US, both politically and militarily, forms the fundamental core of the alliance.
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"This is not going to be won militarily, this is going to a political solution," Miller said.
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They see it as an advantage, any way they pull us down: politically, election interference, militarily, etc.
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Threatening NATO political and militarily leads allies to question their own security the commitment of their friends.
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One expectation among negotiators is that eventually Pakistan will have to bring pressure on the Taliban, including militarily.
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I mean, actually, taking down a physical caliphate for us militarily is easier than actually defeating them cyber.
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The Obama administration has already disengaged from the region militarily after its activism under the Bush White House.
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The United States should refrain from intervening militarily, but should continue providing decisive diplomatic, and even logistical, support.
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Furthermore, Iran is not Saddam Hussein's Iraq, which by 2003 was, militarily, a shadow of its former self.
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So if you realize you can't win militarily at some point, fighting is just, people start asking why.
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Some analysts evaluate Turkey as among the most militarily powerful nations, ranking ninth among 137 military powers worldwide.
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During his speech to the conference, Mahathir said China's rise is undeniable, and confronting it militarily is dangerous.
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But starting in 22018, the government of Álvaro Uribe unleashed the army against the guerrillas, crippling them militarily.
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Carter said countries that cannot contribute militarily can help in other ways, like by choking Islamic State financing.
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Mr Macron will also seek to convince Mr Trump to remain engaged in Syria, both militarily and diplomatically.
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"An enduring solution to this conflict, and the desperate humanitarian situation, will not be reached militarily," Nauert said.
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Kim's calculation is that both countries are too tied up with their own problems to stop him militarily.
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Recent events, however, make it undeniable that Japan has vital interests that may have to be defended militarily.
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The president reportedly sees the pipeline from Russia as a threat, particularly since the U.S. protects Europe militarily.
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It will react militarily only if forced -- such as if Trump actually stops acknowledging the One-China policy.
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France's departure could place an additional burden on the U.S. and other member states, both militarily and monetarily.
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Chinese military base China is spreading its wings militarily, setting up its first overseas military base in Djibouti.
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Isn't there an element of contradiction between that ambition and the ambition to create a militarily powerful Europe?
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"I am a globalist," Cohn told CNBC, explaining that he believes the world is interconnected economically and militarily.
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"What we do militarily is in direct support of the pressure campaign," Goldfein told the Defense Writers Group.
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Turkey and Greece may be posturing militarily against each other again, but it's very unlikely they will fight.
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But in reality, the only things that we truly restrict are militarily sensitive things or dual use things.
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I'm just telling you now because we're getting very big in space, both militarily and for other reasons.
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It has ruled out intervening militarily in the dispute, as it has done previously in parts of Africa.
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Second, we must buy newer ships on the open market and modify them to be more militarily useful.
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That we possess the military capability to destroy targets does not mean we can "solve" this problem militarily.
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As the past 60 years have demonstrated, Europe is stronger economically, politically and militarily when it acts together.
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Syria is a country where two superpowers are already militarily involved, along with a host of regional rivals.
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It's possible his theory works out in the long term and they become militarily much more self-sufficient.
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Since the end of World War II, Japan has worked not to dominate the region militarily, but economically.
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But they roundly reject an American president intruding into their politics or intervening militarily anywhere in the region.
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The group was on its heels militarily, losing ground in Syria and struggling to hold on to Mosul.
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Ankara and Tehran, trading partners of landlocked Iraqi Kurdistan, are threatening retaliation, fueling fears they could intervene militarily.
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All in all, the consensus is pretty clear: The ban is a costly, unnecessary, militarily unsound, discriminatory move.
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"We don't know exactly where we're at in the world, militarily, and what we're doing," Mr. Graham said.
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This beacon of democracy in Asia is perhaps the most militarily vulnerable U.S. partner anywhere in the world.
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We don't want to be under a nuclear weapon umbrella, and we think we should stay militarily nonaligned.
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"Under President Vladimir Putin, Russia has become increasingly assertive and aggressive militarily," Perdue said in a written statement.
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In Japan, such comments have served as a reminder of the risks involved in confronting the North militarily.
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British participation in such operations is rarely crucial militarily, but it lends political support to the United States.
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They then ultimately failed, as the Taliban kept winning militarily, and knew the American surge would soon end.
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Russia says it is not backing the rebels militarily while the rebels themselves blame Kiev for the violations.
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The Kremlin has been supporting Assad both militarily and politically since the start of the conflict in 2011.
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But while the weapons have hurt civilians, American officials do not believe that they have been militarily effective.
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It has never been a secret that President Donald Trump wanted to exit Syria -- both militarily and financially.
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The United States is not reengaging militarily in Syria, Pence said, speaking from the American ambassador's residence here.
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At great cost in lives and property, Iraqis have shown that they can defeat the Islamic State militarily.
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They now represent a powerful faction in Iraq, both militarily and politically, controlling a large bloc in Parliament.
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The North Koreans are not stupid: They know they're militarily outclassed by the United States and South Korea.
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ISIS has never been weaker, but it can't be defeated militarily ISIS has never been weaker, but it can't be defeated militarily Mosul, the largest city under the control of the Islamic State group, has been liberated, and Raqqa, the group's administrative capital in Syria, is set to follow soon.
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McDonough, known for urging Obama to be cautious in engaging militarily in Syria, took the issue of refugees personally.
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Militarily, a kaleidoscopic array of militias that are variously loyal to towns, tribes or religious ideologies vie for control.
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"We're going to be doing things militarily," Trump said at a lunch on Tuesday with leaders of Baltic states.
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This guy is willing to go to the mat militarily to denuclearize the peninsula and stop my missile tests.
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More importantly, Macron said that France would get more militarily involved if there are more chemical attacks in Syria.
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"We don't know exactly where we're at in the world, militarily, and what we're doing," senator Lindsey Graham said.
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" And at a CNN town hall in March, he said the same of Japan: "We are supporting them militarily.
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While militarily the battle has largely progressed according to plan, fissures have begun to emerge among the region's powers.
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General Allen: Well, it's a LL: You don't have freedom militarily to do what you would like to do.
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The immediate concern is the conflict in Syria, where Russia is militarily backing Bashar al-Assad, the country's president.
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Instead, he suggested they'd been kidnapped due to Obama's weakness and that a Cruz administration might have retaliated militarily.
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But there has been very little follow-up to those missile strikes -- either militarily or from a policy perspective.
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But, he added, that nothing had changed militarily in the region; "Americans should sleep well at night," said Tillerson.
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Mired in a civil war, the country is strongly supported militarily by Saudi Arabia, its neighbor to the north.
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" When asked if the United States should do this militarily, Kasich responded, "You have to have very good intelligence.
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Assad now appears militarily unassailable, though rebels still have notable footholds near Damascus, in the northwest, and the southwest.
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Russian cheating has been covered up, regarded as less important than "the arms control process" and as militarily inconsequential.
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He described this as "intolerable" for Israel, which would act militarily to stop the establishment of permanent Iranian positions.
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Vladimir Putin is an unpleasant authoritarian, but Russia is not the Soviet Union and does not threaten America militarily.
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Earlier this month, Iran admitted to shooting down a U.S. drone and the White House prepared to respond militarily.
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Historically, what's militarily necessary, what's part of defense, finds its way to fashion: bomber jackets, trench coats, cargo pants.
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The United States would respond with a full range of its capabilities, and almost certainly come out ahead militarily.
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Either it is defeated militarily, or it exhausts its weapons or loses popular support and has to give up.
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It is part of a dramatic reversal of fortunes for Assad since 2015, aided militarily by Russia and Iran.
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We don't even mind and we understand for the moment, that the U.S. and South Korea are allied militarily.
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Although, nuclear experts in Pakistan claim that TNWs have reduced chances for conventional attack emanating from militarily mighty India.
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Russia is far stronger militarily than Turkey over all, but it is vulnerable in Syria and needs Turkish cooperation.
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Sweden, which is a militarily neutral country and not a member of NATO, mothballed compulsory conscription back in 2010.
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Egypt is resolute in its fight against terrorism, militarily as well as through modernizing religious discourse and increasing tolerance.
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Mr. Putin and his associates believe that Russia should project its power across the world, economically, militarily and politically.
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Militarily, Israel is ready — tens of thousands of troops have been called up for the largest exercise in decades.
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Nearly six years into the war, Assad seems militarily unassailable thanks to the decisive backing of Russia and Iran.
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It also means remembering how much stronger the United States is than Russia, economically, militarily, diplomatically and even politically.
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Although Israel has arguably never been more powerful — militarily, economically or culturally — it remains estranged from its Arab neighbors.
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But as long as we don't seek to topple Assad militarily, everybody has an interest in avoiding an escalation.
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He persuaded Congress to modify the tariff and simultaneously grant him authority to militarily enforce it in South Carolina.
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Although Russia prevailed militarily, its narrative was overshadowed by the Georgian one from the first minutes of the campaign.
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Regardless, it's uncertain if the U.S. would get involved militarily to help India if there were a wider conflict.
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President Donald Trump said Monday it's looking like Iran was responsible, but he's in no rush to respond militarily.
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So for China, though, the ambition is that, to supplant the US economically and militarily, will we know it?
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But just because trade and diplomatic ties are strengthened doesn't preclude India from trying to catch up to China militarily.
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With that send Germany into a position where they feel that they are the leadership militarily in central -- in Europe?
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" Bell agreed, saying that "even if Russia was messing around in this range [of tests] it wouldn't be militarily significant.
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Ukraine, politically disorganized and militarily weak, has relied heavily on the United States in its struggle with Russian-backed separatists.
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He also called on the US to intervene militarily in Libya to stem the worsening humanitarian situation in the country.
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Before the seizure, Iran shot down an unmanned U.S. drone in June, prompting the White House to consider responding militarily.
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And Tessa Thompson, Thor: Ragnarok's swaggering Valkyrie, displays a more vulnerable side here as the group's least militarily adept warrior.
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The fact that the Americans are closer to the Germans is not because the Germans are doing so much militarily.
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"If you're under attack from a UAS, even if it is militarily insignificant, [it] leads to mission degradation," Brig. Gen.
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" He added that the two countries are "tied at the hip" militarily and share the "same ideas and same ideals.
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Now, it can be argued that the king had his reasons: Italy was weak militarily and its streets were unsafe.
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The move marks a further blow to the opposition and a boost for Assad, whose position already appeared militarily unassailable.
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Russia has spent the last two years supporting the Assad regime militarily -- with airstrikes and special forces on the ground.
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Specifically, he slammed America's refusal not just to resist branding Syrian Kurdish fighters as terrorists but in supporting them militarily.
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"These two countries have had very close relations militarily with the US, and they would never damage those," Blackburn said.
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Goldfein emphasized that the cost-comparison of today's satellites with that of those the U.S. needs to remain militarily superior.
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Although Trump and Mattis speak in different tongues, both are voicing militarily aggressive doctrines that increase the chance of conflict.
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And militarily, and in every way we look at it, as very important and very important to the United States.
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But it could encourage the United States to use nuclear weapons, even if doing so is militarily and politically unnecessary.
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But militarily speaking, it still feels the same: Fighter jets are still bombing, and machine guns never stop at night.
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There is little the alliance can do militarily to counter Russia, but military intervention is not the only possible response.
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Second, the U.S. retains a disproportionate level of influence — economically and militarily — that compels other countries to deal with us.
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Politically, economically, scientifically, socially, militarily, and culturally, China is simply far more important today than it was in the past.
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"You can't do better than we have militarily, but you will have people that will be around," he says. Feb.
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Mr. Trump's promise to pull back militarily and economically left many overseas contemplating a road ahead without an American ally.
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And the more we retreat, both militarily and diplomatically, the more vacuums we're creating to be occupied by our opponents.
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"To be strong militarily, we have to shift now money from the civilian areas to the military areas," Netanyahu said.
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The country is militarily neutral and tries to balance between NATO and Russia, its traditional Slavic and Orthodox Christian ally.
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But more growing economies "will end up economically and politically (and eventually, militarily) aligning" with China — strengthening America's biggest rival.
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Other critics worry that the Taliban won't engage in serious dialogue with the United States until they are defeated militarily.
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The ultimate goal appears to be to change the way America's relationship with its allies works, both militarily and economically.
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Many of the most militarily effective rebels are radical Islamists, including the al-Qaeda-linked Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (JFS).
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By now, Russian dreams of challenging the rest of the world militarily have become the main theme of state propaganda.
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Mr. Obama is a pathbreaking figure and established writer whose two terms traversed a stormy period economically, militarily and diplomatically.
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Today, on the 70th anniversary of its declaration of independence, Israel has arguably never been more powerful, militarily or economically.
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The Kremlin shows no signs of planning to interfere militarily, as it did after similar upheavals in Ukraine and Georgia.
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During his third term as president, he intervened militarily in Ukraine and Syria, putting him at loggerheads with the West.
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The United States continues to wrestle for global dominance with other world powers, and will do so militarily if required.
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El-Sisi has been determined to preserve his ties with the U.S. and Israel and fight terrorists militarily and ideologically.
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Turkey, which backs the rebels and is fearful of additional refugees, has retaliated militarily, with displaced civilians caught in between.
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"I think I would characterize it more in that regard than us actively doing something militarily against Iran," Votel said.
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In order to effectively counter Moscow's aggression in Baltic states, the United States must bolster NATO rhetorically, politically and militarily.
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Last year, Swedish authorities said they traced to Russia a disinformation campaign when Sweden was considering cooperating militarily with NATO.
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This weekend's attack proved out Iran's destructive capabilities while testing American resolve to remain militarily active in the Middle East.
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"There will be no war...We have never started a war and they will not confront Iran militarily," he said.
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"The terrorists are entrenched inside, still betting on ending it militarily," said Mustafa Bali, head of the SDF media office.
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"We are in the last chapter, the final stages to eliminate ISIS militarily in Iraq," he said in a video statement.
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Turkey has suggested it will act militarily if the United States fails to agree a solution that will safeguard the border.
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Eventually, this unbalanced relationship between the U.S. and China will lead them to take aggressive measures both economically and potentially militarily.
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In the meantime, we believe that no nation should have to bear a disproportionate share of the burden militarily or financially.
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Putin made a similar play in Syria last autumn, intervening militarily to rescue the pro-Moscow regime of Bashar al-Assad.
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"They were clearly trying to provoke Ukraine into firing," and seeking a justification to engage the Ukrainian navy militarily, Herbst says.
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The U.N report said North Korea is cooperating militarily with Syria and has been trying to sell weapons to Yemen's Houthis.
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Syria's crowded battleground has shown the risks of escalation between world powers militarily involved in the six-year-old Syrian conflict.
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Although these groups currently lack the ability to destroy us militarily, the danger they present is no less existential for that.
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Even a president who campaigned on ending U.S. wars in the Middle East would be hard-pressed not to respond militarily.
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Russia intervened militarily soon afterwards to turn the tide of war and has been helping arm and train the Syrian army.
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Despite their bravado, Pakistani officials realize how economically vibrant, politically stable, and militarily capable New Delhi is in comparison to Islamabad.
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The Americans, Western Europeans and Canadians militarily blocked the Soviet Union up to 1991, and have economically dwarfed it ever since.
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All of this is critical to understanding how the U.S. and its allies may defeat the group militarily, financially, and ideologically.
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ISIS must be destroyed militarily, but its ideology must also be brought into the open and rendered intellectually and emotionally bankrupt.
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Turkey has repeatedly threatened to intervene militarily against the YPG east of the Euphrates river where the safe zone is planned.
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This, like the Soviet-themed parades, shows a certain nostalgia for the feeling of being a big, proud, militarily powerful country.
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It has grown militarily stronger since joining the war in neighboring Syria in 214 in support of President Bashar al-Assad.
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The U.S. has even intervened militarily in the region to calm tensions navigating warships in the Taiwan Strait to prevent hostilities.
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Washington (CNN)The US doesn't anticipate intervening militarily in the Venezuela crisis "in the near future," national security adviser Lt. Gen.
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" Liberman continued, "We will destroy every military site in Syria where we see an attempt by Iran to position itself militarily.
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These hasty structures were militarily insignificant, but they had a symbolic value, making Parisians feel they had contributed to their liberation.
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In Iraq, President Obama's doctrine of aiding other countries militarily rather than leading every fight is facing its greatest test yet.
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Their diagnosis: Europe is morally and militarily weak, and the leader of the free world is disruptive to say the least.
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We examine how groups like Hamas exploit international law to combat Israel, the United States, or others politically rather than militarily.
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"We are going to be doing things militarily," Trump added, saying that he discussed the idea with Defense Secretary James Mattis.
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In addition we expect our regional allies and partners to take greater responsibility both militarily and financially for securing the region.
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More important, even if it were militarily attainable, we should still avoid another open-ended military commitment disconnected from U.S. security.
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"Not just militarily, but also politically," she added, giving the example of European involvements in African conflicts where NATO was absent.
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Turkey, a NATO ally that has intervened militarily in northern Syria, has increasingly been forging an independent policy in the region.
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Mr. Trump shelved the policy of unseating Mr. Assad in Syria because the cost was too high militarily, Mr. Haass said.
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The supply cushion allows the U.S. to better weather global disruptions, and relieves pressure to act militarily when conflicts arise overseas.
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Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimean peninsula in 2014 and intervened militarily in Syria to support its ally, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
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Yet aiding the Kurds militarily and ignoring them politically doesn't promote a more politically tolerant society, nor does it encourage stability.
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He has intervened militarily in such countries as Georgia, Ukraine, and Syria, in the latter case with decisive and disastrous effect.
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If the Iraqi population is "threatened by the use of force outside the law, then we will intervene militarily," he said.
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There are many compelling reasons — including the mindset of North Korean elites described by Thae Yong Ho — to act militarily now.
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Economically or militarily, the United States needs to scare Iran's ruling class, convince it that hostage-taking carries an unbearable price.
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Russia cannot compete economically or militarily with the United States and China, so Mr. Putin is waging an asymmetric shadow war.
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Instead, the Administration is scrambling alone militarily in the waters through which thirty per cent of the world's seaborne energy flows.
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He also reaffirmed "Israel will continue to act against any attempt by Iran and its proxies to entrench militarily in Syria".
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In the meantime, we believe that no nation should have to bear a disproportionate share of the burden, militarily or financially.
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The joint opposition to the system has drawn Russia and China closer militarily, as both countries worry that it'll box them in.
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Separately, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is telling NATO ministers in Brussels that the U.S. is not ready to collaborate militarily with Russia.
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Today, Beijing is militarily challenging America in the South China Sea and shows no sign of backing down on the trade war.
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With the support of Russia and Iran, Assad has gained the upper hand militarily and opposition forces appear unable to dislodge him.
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The world cannot tolerate terrorism, we must defeat them militarily and discredit the extremist ideology that forms the basis of their existence!
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But there&aposs been no action from North Korea militarily and as Michael just mentioned, we&aposve kept doing our military drills.
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Lebanon's political fractures have been deepened by the war in neighboring Syria, in which Hezbollah has militarily supported President Bashar al-Assad.
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For years, experts working on Syria have been advising -- even when the Syrian regime was collapsing -- against ending the Syrian conflict militarily.
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Ibaa said the leaflets were part of a "psychological war" by the government that has not been able to capture Idlib militarily.
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Instead, Clinton stuck to the script of America's foreign policy establishment: defeating ISIS militarily, supporting Israel's security, and standing up to Russia.
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The priority should be to strike America "until it bleeds to death both militarily and financially", he said in a public missive.
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Linkevicius said good relations with EU powerhouses Germany and France within the EU were crucial because of their ability to help militarily.
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Presently Israel is the U.S.'s only ally in the region that is both ideologically and militarily immune to radical Islamist incursion.
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Since Clinton's departure, Putin has reasserted Russia on the world stage, seizing Ukraine's Crimea region and intervening militarily in Syria's civil war.
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It is uncertainty about how far he is willing to go, militarily and diplomatically, that has moved the needle on North Korea.
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At his London rally he pledged a War Powers Act that would limit the government's ability to intervene militarily without Parliament's blessing.
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Today, Russia is in the business of defending both diplomatically and militarily the chemical-weapons-wielding tyrant it was supposed to disarm.
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The statement, posted on the website in November 2015, called on President Obama not to intervene militarily in the Syrian civil war.
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Putin's comments stirred fears that Russia, which has been steadily reinforcing Crimea militarily, may be considering new military action in the region.
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As another sign of the growing alliance, Pakistan and China are close partners militarily, and their cooperation has increased in recent years.
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It will not be struck by either Israel or the United States, should the U.S. engage militarily, nor will it defend Iran.
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Trump's doubts about committing to Article 5, which started when he was a candidate, came as Russia has become more militarily assertive.
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After ISIS was militarily defeated earlier this year, thousands of people were sent to al-Hawl, a camp holding almost 72,000 people.
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The national security strategy for the U.S. has a range of capabilities including being militarily equipped to fight a two-front war.
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It has also militarily and politically helped prop up the governments of Syrian President Bashar Assad during the country's ongoing civil war.
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From rampant espionage and hacking to Taiwan and more, China is slowly and very deliberately flexing its rising economic and militarily power.
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" Asked if he felt the administration should do more militarily to shape events on the ground, Corker said, "They're not going to.
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It is financially and militarily weak and has made encouraging moves toward decentralization of power and reconciliation with the Sunnis and Kurds.
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"NATO has already changed its military posture to be able to respond militarily in that area," NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said.
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Throughout the campaign, Trump referenced Bergdahl multiple times as he sought to make his case that the U.S. has become weak militarily.
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It's not clear whether or how the Tatmadaw, as the Myanmar military is known, will respond militarily after the January 5 attack.
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Moscow has made clear it has no intention of handing the peninsula back to Ukraine and has started to reinforce Crimea militarily.
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Among the Taliban, as in the government, there are elements who believe that if they retain external support, they can win militarily.
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In a sport where girls are militarily broken down physically and emotionally, Nassar established himself as a rare compassionate figure and confidante.
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It definitely cannot be solved militarily, definitely cannot be solved politically — it can only be solved through human understanding of the other.
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"Not all problems can be solved militarily, and we should not ask our military to solve problems that they cannot alone solve."
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And although Iran has increased its influence in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq, it has done so at great cost, financially and militarily.
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The president has said he's willing to talk with Iranian leaders without preconditions and has been reluctant to engage militarily with Iran.
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Mr Giuliani's adventures in Ukrainian politics undermined the American government's efforts to bolster its ally militarily and subverted its anti-corruption message.
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We should hope that the time doesn't come when the United States has no alternative other than to challenge North Korea militarily.
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"Our aim is not to win the war militarily but to force the Frelimo government to accept our conditions" for establishing democracy.
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The Chinese also found new resistance to their requests to relax the export controls that prevent them from buying militarily sensitive products.
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It can either treat the attack as a one-time episode, or it can escalate the situation militarily with the United States.
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And in December 2019, Congress tried to pass a defense spending bill that limited Trump&aposs ability to engage militarily with Iran.
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This went hand in hand with a special bond between our two continents -- culturally, militarily, as a broad alliance of free nations.
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The West is so much stronger than Russia economically and militarily, but it needs to face up to the new Kremlin threats.
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In the early days of his presidency, Mr. Obama made the case for America's moral responsibility to intervene militarily on humanitarian grounds.
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They show how the group has institutionalized a program using off-the-shelf technology to bedevil the militarily superior American armed forces.
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President Donald Trump said Monday it's looking like Iran was responsible but he's in no rush to respond militarily to the attack.
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Iran is the top state sponsor of international terrorism; intervenes militarily in Syria and Yemen, and has made Iraq a virtual satrap.
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Taking back the city would deal ISIS a body blow militarily while also making its messages of strength and power ring hollow.
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Failaq al-Sham said in its statement that it wanted to unify revolutionary units into one body to be militarily and administratively stronger.
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Because we are getting very big in space, both militarily and for other reasons and we are seriously thinking of the Space Force.
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The president eventually, got what he wanted, a new commitment from NATO members to up their contributions financially, militarily to the Northern Alliance.
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However, Johnson suggested the government would back Trump militarily if requested to do so in the event of any future chemical weapons attack.
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It is less likely to be settled militarily, but as with the Cold War the winner can set the terms for the future.
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"ISIS has receded somewhat militarily; they don't have a ... standing army to hold territory," political risk analyst Kirk Sowell told CNN last week.
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KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday Russia had no plans to intervene militarily in the Middle East beyond Syria.
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The destroyer's voyage was "a very serious provocation, politically and militarily" China's ambassador to the U.S. told CNN's Christiane Amanpour in an interview.
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For example, after Iran allegedly shot down a US military drone, Trump and Graham clashed on Twitter after Trump didn't strike Iran militarily.
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He may still threaten war, in trade and militarily, but he will not start one, because wars are expensive and end up unpopular.
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There is still a lot to overcome from Japan and South Korea, not to mention China, before the US decides to act militarily.
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That whole thing about militarily rolling your stuff into little-like when you roll it and pack it, that like, it literally works.
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Fateh al-Sham said it was forced to act militarily and politically to "thwart the conspiracies and to confront them before they happen".
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His administration took an already capable ship and approved a subtle yet important tweak that will make the vessel far more formidable militarily.
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The 2013 sit-in supported former Islamist President Mohammed Morsi who was militarily ousted following mass protests against his divisive one-year rule.
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Unless some greater wisdom prevails, we could spin toward conflict with China, first economically, then geopolitically and militarily, with utter disaster for all.
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A Saudi-led coalition intervened militarily in Yemen in 2015 and critics say Riyadh has been using British-supplied weapons in devastating strikes.
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Trump's failure to commit to honoring Article 5 if a U.S. ally is attacked has come as Russia has become more militarily assertive.
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His failure to commit to honoring Article 5 if a U.S. ally is attacked has come as Russia has become more militarily assertive.
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If ISIS is defeated militarily in Syria and Iraq, its fighters will shave their beards and go underground to continue the armed struggle.
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Stephen J. Townsend, the commanding general of Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve, the multi-national coalition tasked with militarily defeating ISIS.
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Instead of actually militarily occupying the land and kicking out the occupants, we simply go there on spring break and trash the place.
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A priority now for the defense chief is to ensure that South Korea and Japan militarily remain on board with Trump administration efforts.
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Sweden, too, has remained militarily neutral and refrained from joining NATO, though it enjoyed secret American guarantees of protection during the cold war.
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Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, who intervened militarily last September to save Mr. Assad from rebel advances, may be up to duplicitous tricks again.
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To the Editor: Nicholas Kristof contends that the Obama administration has been wrong in not becoming militarily involved in the Syrian civil war.
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Militarily, Colombia exports its expertise northward, helping to train security forces in Central America, the epicenter of the United States' own migrant crisis.
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Yes, the mutual foe ISIS is on the ropes and could be militarily defeated in this conflict, but they are far from gone.
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Finland and Sweden, both militarily non-allied, have recently deepened cooperation in training, information sharing and by the use of ports and airports.
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McDonough is especially good in showing the role that Sherman played that year and the next in supporting Grant both militarily and emotionally.
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Then on Thursday, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif warned of "all-out war" if the US and Saudi Arabia retaliate militarily against Tehran.
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She is likely to continue on President Obama's path, though there is a concern that she might be too willing to intervene militarily.
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When terrorist groups are stalled militarily and fear losing ground to rivals, they often try to attract recruits and funds through spectacular violence.
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Militarily, China is on a path to become a peer the likes of which the U.S. has not seen since the Soviet Union.
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The Maldives, which are currently in a state of emergency, are strategically and militarily important for India, which has ships and bases there.
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"There is a tension there between what is the best tactic militarily and what are the needs of the society," General Nicholson said.
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In measured, data-driven prose, Beckley demonstrates that no country is poised to upend American primacy, not economically, not militarily and not technologically.
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The new energy power also relieves pressure on Washington to act militarily if tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia break out into war.
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If he continues this "America first" claptrap, regional powers like Russia, China, and Iran will grab the chance to expand influence, including militarily.
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Obama had established the use of chemical weapons as a "red line" and then chose not to respond militarily when Assad crossed it.
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It survives, ideologically and militarily, on momentum, and that momentum will inevitably shift into more large-scale attacks against civilians, including in Europe.
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Poland, in particular, is held out as a model because it has been "secured economically, politically and militarily" by the E.U. and NATO.
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The U.S. withdrawal, which began in early Monday morning, clears the terrain both militarily and politically for Turkey to intervene with full force.
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Indeed, Russia militarily occupied chunks of Georgia in 2008 and Ukraine in 2014 in no small part to block their path to NATO.
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The strikes briefly sent oil prices skyrocketing, and once again Iran hard-liners in the White House urged Mr. Trump to retaliate militarily.
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The firebrand leader, who favors closer ties with China and Russia, has said it was time for the Philippines to be militarily independent.
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Militarily, the U.S. and Europeans could each re-commit to NATO and re-shape NATO as a political, not just a military, forum.
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They also face divisions within their ranks and need to show their foot soldiers they are strong militarily before they enter peace talks.
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Two years ago, a military coalition led by Saudi Arabia began bombing the rebels, hoping to weaken them militarily and restore the government.
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The scope for success -- for getting a decades-old insurgency that is winning militarily to talk itself out of a fight -- is small.
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But the rebels are under pressure militarily from pro-government forces, which include the Syrian Army and Shiite militias like Hezbollah from Lebanon.
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Earlier in January, he said the US must remain both diplomatically and militarily engaged in Syria to protect its own national security interests.
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For example, he dismantles the notion that the period of Western overseas expansion led to the rise of Europe, either militarily or politically.
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"I think Iran was reading that Trump really wants out of the region and is not willing to respond militarily," Ms. Sky said.
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Hamas and other Islamist militias have fired thousands of rockets at militarily superior Israel in previous conflicts, but have made scant use of drones.
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But the only people who commit treason and the only people subject to impeachment are the people who actually join forces militarily-- PIRRO: Yes.
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The Saudis also have directly intervened militarily in next-door Yemen to prevent the Houthi movement from emerging victorious in that country's civil war.
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In each case the country that was left on its own has always seemed to pay a price, by being stretched militarily and diplomatically.
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The comparative advantages that the first state to develop AI would have over others — militarily, economically, and technologically — are almost too vast to predict.
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Russia removed the political space for the Chechen separatist movement, and turned all its enemies into radical terrorists it could tackle militarily with impunity.
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I'm sensitive to those who would look at me as militarily incentivised to claim everything is an ISIS problem and therefore I need resources.
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"ISIS has receded somewhat militarily; they don't have a ... standing army to hold territory," political risk analyst Kirk Sowell told CNN earlier this week.
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"Closer defense cooperation between Finland and Sweden, which are militarily non-allied states, offers special opportunities for strengthening the two countries' defense," it said.
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Hamas and other Islamist militias have fired thousands of rockets at militarily superior Israel in previous conflicts but have made scant use of drones.
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The motive for all activity in America, the new Rome, a nation so prodigiously wealthy and militarily mighty it would have made Caesar twitch.
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Kim, essentially, wants the US to stop militarily supporting South Korea and threatening the North, while Trump wants Kim to dismantle his nuclear arsenal.
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Pakistan won't want to risk further aid and arms cutbacks from Washington that could be imposed if it retaliated militarily in a big way.
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U.S. officials have ruled out cooperating with Russia militarily until it has persuaded Damascus to take a broader view, European diplomats said last week.
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Mynt Kyaw, a government spokesman, said the government was unable to contact anyone in the area because it was a militarily-operated "red zone".
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Many of them, like Egypt and Jordan, do not share Saudi Arabia's animus toward Iran and have zero interest in taking on Tehran militarily.
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The leaders of Russia, the leaders of China will respect Mr. Trump, will respect America because we will be strong economically, militarily and politically.
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"The United States and Thailand have had a relationship since 1833 ... We have exchanged ideas, cooperated militarily," the Thai army said in a statement.
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The most important foreign policy question for any president remains whether to enter a conflict militarily — an action that risks U.S. blood and treasure.
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It was always likely that the US-led coalition to defeat ISIS would win militarily, of course, since it has greater resources and equipment.
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Saudi Arabia fears this rebalancing because it can no longer count on and benefit from American efforts to contain Iran politically, economically, and militarily.
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When tens of thousands of troops, supported by U.S. airpower, mass against a few thousand defenders, it is clear how that story ends, militarily.
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If the plan is not approved by voters, Colombia's government will be forced to renege on its agreement and potentially re-engage FARC militarily.
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"If Obama had not abandoned the Syrian opposition psychologically, politically and militarily, then maybe there would be no Russian military presence," the official said.
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As the White House deals with the fallout of Flynn's resignation, Russia has been testing the United States militarily in a number of ways.
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However, criticism has been leveled that "efforts to retake Palmyra are merely window dressing, that it is more significant culturally than militarily," Chance says.
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Today, that class warns the American people against the supposed dangers of making America safe by putting America first, and making it militarily preponderant.
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If nothing else, the bill demonstrates Washington's willingness to further isolate Turkey militarily and economically if Ankara goes through with the S-400 deal.
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When it appeared that Assad was in danger of being ousted in 2016, Russia militarily intervened and has since propped up the Syrian dictator.
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Clinton for her role in persuading President Obama to intervene militarily in Libya, though at the time, he expressed support for the NATO intervention.
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Stephen Townsend, the commanding officer of the multinational coalition tasked with militarily defeating ISIS, said Tuesday that freeing Western Mosul may prove more arduous.
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This leads many to believe that what the Taliban want is to get powerful foreign forces out so that the Taliban can win militarily.
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"The world cannot tolerate terrorism, we must defeat them militarily and discredit the extremist ideology that forms the basis of their existence," he addded.
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With little option, the overtaken state pushes back militarily, expecting allies to help via diplomacy, sanctions, and finally, by force of arms if needed.
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Moscow's annexation of Crimea in 2014 and saber-rattling in the Baltic Sea have raised security concerns in the militarily neutral European Union country.
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When people talk about undermining the NATO alliance, you should look at those who are carrying out steps that make NATO less effective militarily.
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The attacks were not, strictly speaking, aimed at American forces; they were aimed militarily at ARVN, and psychologically at the South Vietnamese national will.
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It would also be a setback for Russia, which supports the Syrian regime and has been involved militarily in the country since last fall.
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"Russians might choose to escalate because they are the militarily weaker party," Steven Cook, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, writes.
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Foreign Minister Abba Eban of Israel reminded President Charles de Gaulle that, in 173, following the Suez crisis, France pledged to support Israel militarily.
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Today's picks: • Experts are debating David H. Petraeus's warning that Australia will be dealing militarily with the Islamic State in Southeast Asia for decades.
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The aid was militarily necessary, but it was also seen as symbolic, "to show Russia that the U.S. is on our side," she said.
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But Washington and NATO members have so far refused to engage militarily in northwest Syria out of reluctance to confront Russia, Western officials said.
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The area is one of the world's most militarily tense frontiers, where the neighbouring armies have confronted each other over disputed territory for decades.
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In each instance, Trump opted to deploy additional troops and equipment to the region or impose sanctions, but abstained from directly targeting Tehran militarily.
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" President Barack Obama did not respond militarily to a chemical attack in 2013, despite having called the use of such weapons a "red line.
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The U.S. is being called upon by its Arab allies to intervene militarily, while its security sector works on overdrive to protect the homeland.
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For almost a year, an escalating series of Iranian attacks on U.S. and allied assets were met by a conspicuous failure to respond militarily.
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Russia has been politically and militarily supporting Syrian President Bashar Assad, who has been fighting a civil war against various opposition groups since 2011.
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Xi and his regime believe they benefit from the stress that the umpteenth North Korean missile crisis imposes on the U.S. militarily and politically.
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Canada is too closely entwined with its immense neighbor — economically, militarily, diplomatically and in countless other ways — to risk the development of serious friction.
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Longer term, withdrawal offers more freedom to the United States, Israel or others to act militarily against Iranian nuclear facilities, if that becomes necessary.
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Not just from people that might be coming this way militarily to hurt us, but actually on the streets, every day, all the time.
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The bus bombing was "not a big deal militarily, but this suicidal attack in the border area is a cowardly act," Mr. Taraghi said.
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The capture of the Indian pilot may only weaken his position and lead to a dangerous escalation if Mr. Modi chooses to respond militarily.
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Many senators thought the treaty, which would commit the US to militarily defend other league members, gave up too much of the nation's sovereignty.
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"Closer defense cooperation between Finland and Sweden, which are militarily non-allied states, offers special opportunities for strengthening the two countries' defense", it said.
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Graham called on the United States to be ready to intervene militarily in Venezuela last week in a piece in the Wall Street Journal.
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" He added, "In general, what we have got once again, what we have to try to do, is solve political problems politically not militarily.
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So as a result, the Democratic convention has spent a surprising amount of time attempting to burnish Clinton's credential as militarily tougher than Trump.
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While showing no interest in getting involved militarily, China's Defence Ministry said last year that it had been providing medical equipment and training for Syria.
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Russia's immediate neighbors are mostly militarily and economically weaker than Russia, and so more susceptible to Putin's whims than a Germany or a France is.
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By almost any measure, that special relationship is now defunct -- politically, militarily and economically, even if it still lives on at a vestigial, cultural level.
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Its defeat in that war, and America's subsequent occupation and castration of Japan militarily, destroyed the power of that identity—and the country's self-esteem.
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Militarily, the two countries share intelligence on terrorism and security and historically Mexico played a mediating influence and bulwark against Latin America's more radical regimes.
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NATO is led militarily by the Supreme Allied Commander Europe, who is also the commanding general of the Stuttgart-based U.S. European Command, currently Gen.
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Compared to Barack Obama, Trump poses more of a risk to the area and China should "prepare diplomatically and militarily," Li is quoted as saying.
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"Their direct support - politically, economically and militarily - has made possible bigger advances on the battlefield and reduced the losses and burdens of war," Assad added.
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Nor did Mr. Trump spare a more favored ally, Saudi Arabia, which he said was pressing the United States to stay militarily engaged in Syria.
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Militarily imposing a safe zone, then, would ultimately be a colossal escalation, taking the US further down an already very slippery slope of military intervention.
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Analysts caution that while the group was largely defeated militarily in Iraq and Syria, few of the issues that fueled its emergence have been addressed.
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The OPCW, once a technical organization operating by consensus, broke along political lines over the use of chemical weapons in Syria, which Russia supports militarily.
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KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia, Oct 27 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday Russia had no plans to intervene militarily in the Middle East beyond Syria.
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The instinct of leaders, more often than not, was to act militarily even in relatively small conflicts that were remote from American national security interests.
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But it may have little choice if Saudi Arabia, which supports President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi militarily and financially, threw its weight behind the move.
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Even if Assad is able to control Syria militarily, after a long struggle the regime will still not be able to efficiently run the country.
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These efforts are in support of Somalia's government, which is no stranger to terrorist attacks and has fought back militarily against Al-Shabaab for years.
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Far from a question of diplomatic niceties, the possibility of a militarily powerful Japan would have real consequences—and stoke understandable fears—across East Asia.
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The Taliban appear to be building on gains made this year and feel emboldened financially and militarily, according to Nic Robertson, CNN's international diplomatic editor.
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Navarro told NPR that the Trump administration is working to prevent China from stealing American intellectual property and evading export controls on militarily sensitive technology.
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The only way to curb his actions, let alone get him to the negotiating table, is from a position of economic, political and militarily strength.
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"Militarily, this summit will be about strengthening forces along the eastern front," said Michal Baranowski, director of the Warsaw office of the German Marshall Fund.
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"It is necessary that the last pockets of this terrorist organization be definitively defeated militarily," France's Minister for the Armed Forces Florence Parly tweeted Thursday.
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The United States must have this capability for its own key needs, without dependence on those that compete against us economically or challenge us militarily.
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Unfortunately, too often American leaders have defined as "moderate" those Middle Eastern countries important to us economically or militarily, regardless of their human rights records.
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Supported by Russian air power and Iran-backed militias, Assad appears militarily unassailable and last month Assad ally Hezbollah declared victory in the Syrian war.
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"However, Kim Jong-Un is not, in my view, irrational to the extent that he will do something which the U.S. really cannot ignore militarily. "
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The Trump administration's militarily focused foreign assistance budget, with its ill-considered decimation of America's singular and irreplaceable diplomatic role, will make our country weaker.
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The Islamic State builds its image on success, and if it is failing militarily in Iraq and Syria it will need to win victories elsewhere.
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Haftar's Libyan National Army is militarily backed by the UAE and Egypt, which have carried out air strikes, while the GNA is supported by Turkey.
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I made it clear to him that we would continue to act with all our might against Iran's attempts to entrench itself militarily in Syria.
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The goal, Ohno said, is to replace 147 older fighter jets with the more modern planes, giving the country greater capabilities to defend itself militarily.
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They have been yearning for a messiah-like figure who can turn Pakistan into a financially autonomous and militarily robust nation that is respected globally.
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Those substate actors are difficult to defeat militarily, and wars against them could exacerbate the failed-state dynamics that Iran has proved adept at exploiting.
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While eager to wind down US wars in the Middle East, President Trump has proven willing to respond militarily when American lives are at risk.
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Talks are seen as a strategic necessity by many US commanders who no longer stick to the argument that the Taliban can be defeated militarily.
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Probably not, and Secretary Tillerson readily acknowledged as much during a chat with reporters, clarifying that U.S. forces will not militarily engage Iran unless provoked.
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Mr. Pashinyan has sought to assure Russia, which intervened militarily in Ukraine and Georgia after similar popular revolts, that Armenia would remain an important ally.
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Militarily, a good choice would be to quietly tell the Iranians that we will target their fossil fuel infrastructure on Kharg Island if they respond.
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Any additional steps Tehran takes to avenge the death of the Quds Force commander will expose Iran to great risks militarily, economically, diplomatically and internally.
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China is unquestionably our most important international relationship, since that nation is on the rise and close to becoming our equal both economically and militarily.
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Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said in a March interview with the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper that Israel had been acting militarily in Syria in recent months.
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Afghanistan is an independent country — the U.S. has helped us a lot, militarily and economically, they haven't destroyed our country, they haven't invaded our country.
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But I do think there are still pieces of the puzzle that need to be filled in terms of overall strategy politically more than militarily.
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Backsliding on the nationalisation of PrivatBank could not just cost Ukraine the IMF's programme but also undermine Western willingness to support it politically and militarily.
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Going back to the Manhattan Project, the U.S. government has always relied on the private sector to innovate militarily and, yes, make war more humane.
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But backed militarily by Russia and Shi'ite regional allies, Assad, a member of Syria's Alawite minority, has negotiated the deals from a position of strength.
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Most importantly, moral outrage among European and Arab public opinion has galvanized American allies to do more, including militarily, to alleviate President Trump's stated concerns.
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Militarily, this is no longer effective and financially, this is no longer viable and eventually, this is just nonsensical for the people who do this.
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"Right now we are only fighting Daesh militarily," said Jabar Yawar, the secretary general of the pesh merga, the Kurdish security forces in northern Iraq.
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More broadly, the Saudi-led war in Yemen, which the US supports militarily, will continue to be an easy bipartisan target for resistance in 2019.
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Mr. Rhodes served as Mr. Obama's deputy national security adviser through some of the most consequential points of his presidency, including decisions to authorize the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, send more troops to Afghanistan, pull most troops out of Iraq, restore diplomatic relations with Cuba, seal a nuclear agreement with Iran, intervene militarily in Libya and refuse to intervene militarily in Syria.
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This is perhaps — because we&aposre getting very big in space, both militarily and for other reasons, and we are seriously thinking of the Space Force.
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While Assad is militarily unassailable in the Syrian conflict, swathes of territory at the frontiers with Iraq, Turkey and Jordan and Israel remain outside his control.
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The group last fought a major conflict with Israel in 2006, since when it has grown militarily stronger as a major participant in the Syrian war.
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It was a way of "explaining to the international community why it was necessary to continue to impose measures to pressure Assad, including militarily," Putin said.
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He warns in his book that the Germans are now trying to dominate Europe economically, having failed to achieve the goal militarily in World War Two.
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Widely-read Chinese tabloid the Global Times said if China really wanted to expand militarily, the defense budget should really be rising 20 to 30 percent.
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Instead, this is, as some surmise, a new Cold War to determine who will be the hegemonic power — economically and militarily — in the years to come.
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Australia has had close ties to the United States militarily and economically, but those connections were strained by the Trump administration even before this executive order.
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But on a recent trip to Beijing, Duterte said he wants "separation from the United States," both economically and militarily, and pursue closer relations with China.
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The aircraft must be able to avoid detection while also flying fast and far enough, and carrying a big enough payload, to make them militarily useful.
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The United States, the world's largest oil consumer, relied heavily on Saudi and OPEC supplies for decades - while supporting Riyadh militarily against its arch-foe Iran.
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China is one of the most powerful nations on Earth both militarily and economically, and it seemingly has designs to have near-complete control in Asia.
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Saudi Arabia intervened militarily in Yemen's civil war starting in 2015, attacking Houthi militia and loyalists of a former president said to be supported by Iran.
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Shanahan ultimately has final say on how the funds are reallocated, but first he's required by law to decide whether the move is actually militarily necessary.
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The Democratic nominee made the case that the U.S. must continue to be a global leader militarily and diplomatically by spreading U.S. ideas around the world.
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Bottom line: U.S.-South Korea alliance should continuously send the message to North Korea that they are prepared in both will and capability to act militarily.
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Some might argue deploying this sort of offensive technology is tantamount to a pre-emptive military strike -- something North Korea says it would respond to militarily.
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Widely-read Chinese tabloid the Global Times said if China really wanted to expand militarily, the defence budget should really be rising 20 to 30 percent.
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Norway, Denmark and Iceland are NATO members, while Sweden and Finland - which shares an 833 mile (1,340 km) border with Russia - have remained militarily non-aligned.
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That echoed the names of the two breakaway regions of southeastern Ukraine that Russia has supported militarily in their fight against the central government in Kiev.
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The ex-Soviet republic of about 3 million, sandwiched in the mountainous Caucasus region between Europe and Asia, relies heavily on Russia, both militarily and economically.
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"These air strikes will help accelerate the elimination of Daesh's Terrorist gangs in the region after we have defeated terrorism militarily in Iraq," its statement read.
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But that relationship has come under new scrutiny as Beijing has sought to expand its influence throughout the Asia and the Pacific financially, politically and militarily.
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We spend money on all sorts of research areas because we understand America has to have a technological advantage to compete economically and protect itself militarily.
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Choo Mi-ae, the leader of the main opposition party, has called the system "militarily useless" and a "diplomatic checkmate" that pushed China closer to Pyongyang.
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Even as we continue to destroy ISIL militarily, we're addressing the larger forces that have allowed these terrorists to gain traction in parts of the world.
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Only Afghanistan and Iraq, where the US has been involved militarily since 250 and 250 respectively, received more money from the US Department of Defense (DOD).
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Russia has also impeded Open Skies access to two militarily sensitive regions on their borders for which they have earned reciprocal restrictions by the United States.
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And he can't do it militarily, he can't do it economically, he has to use asymmetrical warfare and that means eroding the trust in democratic institutions.
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"Without a political strategy, the U.S. is simply going to find itself in the same position again, drained militarily and dragged into another quagmire," she said.
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So expect setbacks galore, as Daenerys learns that taking power from an existing, militarily viable empire is much more difficult than posing as the Dothraki messiah.
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The Taliban are militarily strong and have continued to challenge the Afghan government in recent months, as evidenced by the attacks in Farah, Ghazni, and Kunduz.
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A group of House members is asking President Trump to submit a resolution that would limit the White House's ability to engage militarily on its own.
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"The solution is to topple the criminal regime militarily though jihad and patience," said a statement by the militant group distributed on Friday through social media.
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With military backing from Russia and Iran, Assad has recovered control of swathes of lost Syrian territory over the last two years and appears militarily unassailable.
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Bibi is convinced that if Israel is strong militarily, economically and technologically, the world will bend to its will and beat a path to its door.
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The goal of the trip by the American delegation this week was to smooth over the ability of the United States and India to cooperate militarily.
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It has cooperated with Iran in aiding the Assad regime, but also has communicated closely with the Israelis, allowing Israel to act militarily against the two.
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Though the extremist groups are militarily strong and the civilians have protested their presence, the militants have not systematically interfered with aid — at least not yet.
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North Korea's newly demonstrated ability to launch a missile that could reach the United States mainland is intended to deter Washington from intervening politically or militarily.
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There are also concerns Iran could lash out militarily against U.S. allies in the region to deflect from pressure being built up by protests within Iran.
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The Iranians, the official said, could easily escalate militarily, by attacking American troops along the Euphrates River in Syria or with Iranian-backed militias in Iraq.
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Russia did not respond militarily to the Friday strike, but American officials noted a sharp spike in Russian online activity around the time it was launched.
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They saw us not responding militarily to the [seizure of US Navy Ship] Pueblo, the shootdown of the EC-121, they were openly laughing at us.
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Support from Tehran has been militarily useful but may prove strategically dangerous, trapping the Shia Houthis into a status of perpetual enemy to their Sunni neighbors.
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They also refuted the widely held view that the South Vietnamese government was reeling militarily at the time of Ngo Dinh Diem's assassination in November 1963.
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The unleashing of such awesome high-tech weaponry might make the war "militarily unlosable" in the short term, but at profound cost: the destruction of Vietnam.
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Satellites are too militarily useful to pretend that adversaries will consider them off-limits, says William Roper, the air force's assistant secretary for technology and acquisitions.
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In general, Trump contended, the current international architecture forces the U.S. to overextend itself financially and militarily around the world, without adequate compensation from global partners.
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This is critical, because ISIS, even if it is beaten militarily, can be expected to recruit new members and pose a threat for years to come.
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They also share the view that the US is overextended militarily and has little to show for nearly two decades of war in the Middle East.
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But US officials and experts remain vigilant, mainly because there's a small fear that Moscow might intervene militarily in Venezuela's crisis like it did in Syria.
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Right now the deployment happening militarily that matters most, although is not getting much attention, is the US sending 5,000 troops to Eastern Europe, to Poland.
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According to the law, the defense secretary has to decide whether the wall is militarily necessary before money from the military construction budget can be used.
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Islamic State was militarily defeated in Iraq in 2017, but has continued to launch guerilla-style attacks on security forces in the north of the country.
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The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) gave Jammeh a deadline of January 19th to step down, otherwise they would militarily intervene unless he stepped down.
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"I have some concerns about what that means militarily for the ability to defend along the Military Demarcation Line," U.S. General Vincent Brooks told reporters on Wednesday.
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By contrast, JFS has been an invaluable on-the-ground partner that has shown itself to be militarily proficient and willing to undertake risky — and bloody — missions.
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It is a page out of Ronald Reagan&aposs put a book and it&aposs making sure that we have the strongest possible position economically and militarily.
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However, if Trump is serious about combating violent extremism and taking on terrorists, he will have no better partner -- militarily, financially and ideologically -- than the GCC states.
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The two countries are also at odds militarily over China's extensive claims in the South China Sea and U.S. warship movements through the highly sensitive Taiwan Strait.
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We believe the United States should be strong, militarily and economically, since it is only through strength that we can provide our citizens with security and opportunity.
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UAE officials have rejected previous criticisms from the Qataris, and defend their aims to provide infrastructure and military training to Somaliland, a strategic location commercially and militarily.
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Until 2014, the relationship with Russia was politically irksome, but militarily stable, while the Russian submarine force remained parked, in many cases rusting away at the pier.
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The Syrian Kurds thought they had to stop shooting and let Turkey keep the ground it already had -- the latter something it had little say over militarily.
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" She added, "To America's European allies, the Kremlin is messaging that the U.S. cannot protect them from Russia if Russia wants to do something to them militarily.
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For now, North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho asserts that President Trump has declared war and Pyongyang will respond militarily to future US displays of force.
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"Trump doesn't want any sort of effort that makes China militarily better, that makes them ahead of us in terms of 5G," the next generation wireless technology.
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"To America's European allies, the Kremlin is messaging that the U.S. cannot protect them from Russia if Russia wants to do something to them militarily," she said.
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But when we involve ourselves militarily, when we involve ourselves in these humanitarian issues, we end up with a situation that in most cases is not better.
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If Islamic State is defeated militarily, it likely will revert to the guerrilla tactics of its predecessor, al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), current and former officials said.
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For its part, Beijing has accused Washington on encroaching on its areas of interests in the South and East China Seas, and attempting to contain it militarily.
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Militarily, he is reassuring allies to stand against China's growing military might, but economically Trump is turning his back on broad trade pacts with those same allies.
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That as long as Russia was aggressively weighing in militarily, they were removing at least part of the incentive for the regime to engage in those conversations.
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Turkey will never allow the Kurdish chunk of the country to secede or let its fighters take over militarily as they tried to do in the 1990s.
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Why are we asking American service personnel to risk their lives by aligning them with a patchwork of militarily inadequate fighters that are currently on the run?
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Brazil's vice president said Monday that the U.S. will not be allowed to use his country to militarily invade Venezuela amid international outcry against the Venezuelan government.
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Vietnam is central to Mr. Obama's strategy of focusing more attention on Asia and uniting the region economically, militarily and politically to counter an increasingly assertive China.
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Far from signaling weakness, negotiation succeeds precisely because we are strong militarily, through leadership of the international community and because of the appeal of our core values.
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Militarily, it took over two and a half years to expand and train the U.S. Armed Forces to more than 11 million Americans in uniform by 1944.
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Only if they believe the administration may well be driven to act militarily against Iran's military infrastructure are they likely to put real pressure on the Iranians.
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But Mr. Hadi, whose government is backed by the United Nations, later returned to the southern city of Aden after Saudi Arabia and its allies intervened militarily.
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Yet today, only 20 private shipyards remain in operation in the United States, and a mere 73 ships are classified as "militarily useful" under the Jones Act.
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How can you stop the Iranians from establishing themselves militarily in Syria and create a land corridor to the Mediterranean while getting U.S. forces out of Syria?
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So the good news is that despite the alarmist claims of imminent offensives, Moscow seems to have given up on any thought of winning this war militarily.
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The White House is reviewing options to pressure Pyongyang economically and militarily, including "secondary sanctions" against Chinese banks and firms that do the most business with Pyongyang.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday it made sense for a powerful economic bloc like the European Union to want to defend itself militarily.
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Russians, even those not pleased to see their country militarily menacing small neighbors in Eastern Europe, found a reason to be proud of their team toppling Spain.
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The eastern-based Libyan National Army of Khalifa Haftar is militarily backed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Egypt, while the GNA is supported by Turkey.
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The administration's tactical advantage could be fleeting, of course, if Iran retaliates with cyberattacks or militarily, incites more militia violence in Iraq, or revives its nuclear program.
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Some analysts believe that China is unlikely to intervene militarily to quell the uprising, to avoid detracting from the 70th anniversary of Communist Party rule in October.
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Moscow has become increasingly aggressive as Mr. Putin annexed Crimea, waged war in eastern Ukraine, meddled in the American and European elections and intervened militarily in Syria.
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Haftar enjoys the backing of Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, which see him as bulwark against Islamists and have supported him militarily, according to U.N. reports.
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China is militarily much stronger today, armed with far more advanced missiles and a more robust navy that includes one aircraft carrier, with more on the way.
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He hinted that the United States would respond militarily to the chemical attacks in that country, saying that "we can't let atrocities like we all witnessed" happen.
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"If you have half the resources of the counterparty then you better be real innovative because [otherwise] we're going to lose… The U.S. will be, militarily, second."
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The previous administration's reluctance to engage militarily, Ms. Rosett writes, has emboldened tyrants across the globe and damaged American credibility as the defender of the free world.
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The president has staked his foreign policy on confronting Tehran with economic sanctions and tough rhetoric, but until last week had largely held off on engaging militarily.
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"The Liaoning's visit shows that China is a militarily superior country," said Jack Chan, a retired businessman, who was watching the aircraft carrier from an oceanfront park.
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Prices hit their highest since March 2013 at $1,610.90 did not necessarily have to respond militarily to Iran's attack on military bases housing U.S. troops in Iraq.
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"In confronting the reckless North Korean regime, it's critical that we're guided by a strong sense of resolve, both privately and publicly, both diplomatically and militarily," Adm.
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But acceding to the political pressure to rid the country of American troops would be a "disaster" for Iraq, militarily and economically, a senior Iraqi official said.
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Since a May 2140 coup, Thailand and China have drawn closer diplomatically and militarily as the ruling generals seek to counterbalance the country's cooling ties with Washington.
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The United States is still militarily involved in Afghanistan, and with North Korea bolstering its nuclear missile program, the defense industry is not exactly short of business.
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At a strategic level, Paris is militarily able but also aware of its interdependence with the United States to balance a revisionist Russia and an emboldened China.
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Some have expressed doubt that this latest effort will reduce violence for long or in the wisdom of the United States and Russia coordinating militarily in Syria.
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It is not a question of political party after all, but rather, it is a matter of rebuilding our nation — economically, militarily and socially, in my opinion.
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But his administration ultimately opted not to intervene militarily after Russia stepped in to arbitrate an international agreement aimed at removing all chemical weapons from the country.
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"I have some concerns about what that means militarily for the ability to defend along the Military Demarcation Line," U.S. General Vincent Brooks told reporters on Wednesday.
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He fails to note that data on hunter-gatherer violence is relevant only where they are neighbored by other hunter-gatherers, rather than by militarily superior farmers.
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In 2013, he successfully enlisted South Africa and Tanzania to militarily quell the M23 movement, a Rwandan-backed Tutsi rebellion that had caused chaos in eastern Congo.
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Winning over the farmers According to the terms of the peace agreement, the state should militarily secure coca growing areas while introducing state services and economic development.
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The incident showed Moscow was more deeply involved in Syria militarily than it has said, and risked being drawn into direct confrontation with the United States there.
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Rather, it means that Assad just isn't in a position to defeat the rebels outright, making a stalemate the best outcome Russia could hope to accomplish militarily.
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Finland joined the European Union in 1995, but has remained outside of NATO as a militarily non-aligned nation in a similar way as close Nordic neighbor Sweden.
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These planes are highly survivable and militarily effective strike systems that can fly into the heaviest air defenses again and again with little risk of being shot down.
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"It is a known fact to both sides that this conflict can not be resolved militarily," said Nigar Goksel, senior analyst for Turkey at the International Crisis Group.
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The report is critical of building up troop levels without a clearer counter-terrorism strategy, which is "essentially to defeat all 'radical Islamist' groups militarily," the report says.
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First and foremost is the Syrian government, which in mid-2015 appeared to be teetering on the brink of collapse until Russia intervened militarily to shore it up.
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Russia would likely respond to a safe zone militarily imposed by the United States by escalating its own aerial assaults, in order to assert geopolitical dominance in Syria.
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" He talks about soldiers "getting the job done in an environment that is as complex and challenging as [he thinks] we've ever faced as a nation militarily speaking.
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The commission also insists that, as a non-member, Britain cannot have full access to Galileo's "public regulated service" (PRS), a militarily secure, unjammable part of the project.
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The clashes show Moscow is more deeply involved in Syria militarily than it has said, and risks being drawn into direct confrontation with the United States in Syria.
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Haftar enjoys the backing of Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, which see him as a bulwark against Islamists and have supported him militarily, according to U.N. reports.
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In 2008 he had attacked Georgia to stop it integrating with the West and promised to hang Mr Saakashvili "by the balls" for responding militarily to Russia's provocations.
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It&aposs obvious that North Korea needs to be dealt with, and now he&aposs doing that through the maximum campaign of pressure, diplomatically, militarily, even through twitter.
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At least 40,000 people have been killed since the PKK began its fight for Kurdish autonomy in the southeast three decades ago and the Turkish government responded militarily.
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Some experts interpreted the strike as a warning to North Korea that the US is prepared to act militarily to prevent the use of weapons of mass destruction.
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Brussels (AFP) - The United States is not yet ready to cooperate militarily with Russia, Pentagon chief James Mattis said Thursday after Moscow's defence minister called for better ties.
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The protracted conflict in Syria has permitted Hezbollah to strengthen militarily, which creates a long-term threat to the Lebanese people and to the U.S. and its allies.
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While China has shown no interest in getting involved militarily in Syria, China's special envoy for the crisis there in April praised Russia's military role in the war.
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To signal North Koreans that the US is willing to punish them militarily for taking actions that threaten US national security, but without starting a full-scale war.
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This meant not just that nations couldn't intervene militarily in someone else's war; they could not change, for example, the terms on which they traded with the belligerents.
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A Gallup poll earlier this month found that just 49 percent of Americans "think the United States is number one in the world militarily," a laughably false notion.
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The request comes at a time when there are concerns the Iranian regime could potentially lash out militarily in response to the US reimposing sanctions on the country.
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While that may be campaign bluster, it does reflect a growing unwillingness in the United States to shoulder a disproportionate share of the NATO burden, militarily and financially.
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Today, Turkey is cracking down militarily against Kurdish separatists in its southeast and, at the same time, shelling positions in northern Syria, held by Kurdish militia fighting ISIS.
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H.R. McMaster, who was President Trump's national security adviser at the time, thought there was a real chance the Pentagon would have to confront Kim Jong-un militarily.
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Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley, a professor in the biodefense program at George Mason University, says she doubts gene drives will be militarily effective in targeting rival countries' harvests.
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"Today, with attention to the defensive power of our country, we're in a situation that Islamic Iran cannot be militarily threatened by any foreign power," Amir Hatami said.
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"Yes, ISIS will be defeated militarily, but we know that there still is going to be the ideology and the continued insurgent activity as they devolve into that."
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Because the US and South Korea militarily outmatch the North, Lewis says, its military doctrine aims to avoid a protracted conflict and instead strike a devastating early blow.
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For one thing, the report said, it would hardly come as a surprise that a highly motivated and well-supplied guerrilla movement could defeat a militarily superior power.
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Their argument is that Moscow is outclassed militarily by the US and its NATO allies and buckling economically under the weight of international sanctions and low oil prices.
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It is in everyone's interest that we do all we can — politically, economically, militarily and otherwise — to help the people of Europe remain democratic, united, free and prosperous.
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"Military commanders in Afghanistan, absent political guidance and a diplomatic strategy, have filled the vacuum by waging a war all agree cannot be won militarily," Mr. Eikenberry said.
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It cannot do it militarily — short of flexing its nuclear weapons — nor financially after four years of drifting in economic irons despite a recent buoyancy in oil prices.
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"Every outpost in which we see Iran positioning militarily in Syria, we will destroy, and we will not allow this no matter what the price," Lieberman told Elaph.
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey has threatened to block the Syrian advance militarily, and on Thursday two Turkish soldiers were killed in a Russian airstrike inside Syria.
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While discussing the potential withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, Warren said the U.S. needs to stop using its military might to address problems that cannot be solved militarily.
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The Politico–Morning Consult survey released early Wednesday found that 2628 percent support Trump's decision to not respond militarily, with 28503 percent telling pollsters that they "strongly" approve.
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Militarily, "the Turks are not in a position to take this on," said Naz Durakoglu, who helped develop Turkey policy at the State Department during the Obama administration.
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Even when the Islamic State is defeated militarily, the political and economic conditions that facilitated its rise — unleashed in part by the 2003 invasion — will continue to fester.
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Significantly, it would further exacerbate the current rift between Qatar and the Saudis, Emiratis, Bahrainis and Egyptians, which is politically, socially, economically and militarily destabilizing for the region.
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Washington (CNN)The United States must remain both diplomatically and militarily engaged in Syria to protect its own national security interests, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Wednesday.
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And there's an underlying trope or assumption there that one can win militarily, which I don't think is possible, and I don't think the military thinks is possible.
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"I fear the consequences if China chooses the path of disruption," McCain added, later saying it could force the wider region to cooperate more closely militarily and economically.
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Investors likely flocked to buy up shares of the defense names with the thought that should the U.S. actually engage militarily with North Korea, defense contractors would benefit.
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"When we stand together, we are stronger than any potential challenger -- economically, politically and militarily," said Stoltenberg, the first NATO chief to address a joint meeting of Congress.
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Trump wants to wage war in the name of explicitly ransacking poorer countries for their natural resources — something that's far more militarily aggressive than anything Clinton has suggested.
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Though Russia under President Vladimir V. Putin is muscling its way back onto the world stage militarily, economic development has lagged woefully, and that includes the medical system.
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Russia, chastened by the damage done to the Soviet Union during its occupation of Afghanistan, has shown no interest in getting involved militarily again, at least not directly.
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"Certainly by engaging with different political actors in Libya, it's looking to reassert its presence there, not necessarily militarily but as another power player in the region," she said.
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Critics of Obama's policy on Syria have said that his hesitancy to involve troops has allowed Russia to intervene militarily, although Moscow has been influential in Syria for decades.
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Between the lines: Netanyahu said today during the weekly cabinet meeting that Trump's decision will not change the Israeli policy of acting militarily against the Iranian presence in Syria.
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A militarily imposed safe zone will take us further that from a comprehensive political solution, which is the only way to truly ensure the enduring safety of Syrian civilians.
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The Obama administration pressured Ukraine not to confront Russia militarily in Crimea and refused to provide it with lethal weapons, despite a 1994 pledge to uphold its territorial integrity.
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But it hadn't occurred to me that space weather could trigger an even greater disaster in a militarily-tense era, if the consequences for technology were not well understood.
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But had the guerrillas triumphed militarily, they would almost certainly have tried to impose Cuban-style communism in El Salvador—in denial of the human rights that Romero championed.
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In recent years, Japan has reinterpreted its pacifist constitution -- which Abe expressed a desire to rewrite completely -- to allow it to come to the aid of the US militarily.
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Mr. Trump also took a jab at former President Barack Obama, who declined to respond militarily to evidence that the Syrian government had gassed its own people in 2013.
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But the British role is more significant militarily in NATO, in the Middle East than Germany's is today, and it will be in two years and in five years.
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Sean MacFarland, who directs the coalition fighting ISIS in Iraq and Syria, provided the most detailed military criticism to date about the concept and detailed why it's militarily unacceptable.
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Washington (CNN)President Barack Obama defended his decision not to intervene militarily in Syria's civil war in an interview published Thursday detailing internal clashes among high-level U.S. officials.
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"The position of the United States is and hasn't changed; that we are still supporting the opposition politically, financially and militarily," Kerry said, when asked about the opposition reports.
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But she said Oslo saw challenges in the way Russia was developing, not only militarily but also in the areas of civil society, the rule of law and democracy.
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Throughout his campaign, Trump has portrayed himself as a strongman who would toughen up America's defenses — both militarily and at the border — and who would take care of veterans.
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Prices jumped this week after Trump said the U.S. would respond militarily to Syria's use of chemical weapons on its citizens last Saturday, killing dozens and wounding hundreds more.
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Saudi Arabia will not be able to militarily dominate Iran: It has neither the manpower and the expertise nor the broad network of proxy forces that the Iranians have.
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But administration officials say that the twin efforts to militarily shrink the group's dominion in Iraq and Syria and to cut into its finances have fed off each other.
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The central lesson of American policy in Syria has been that when one side escalates militarily (through American or Saudi arms or Russian planes), the other side neutralizes it.
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Iran's verbal threats against Israel are alarming to the United States, though it would be equally dangerous to regional stability and security should Israel decide to attack Iran militarily.
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Iran is more likely to disrupt traffic in the Strait of Hormuz than to engage in an all-out conventional war with the US, which is much stronger militarily.
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" He added that he has not yet spoken to his Russian counterpart, but the United States will "work diplomatically and militarily in the coming hours to re-establish deconfliction.
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Putin and his government have been among the chief supporters of the Assad regime, both militarily and in helping to negotiate ceasefires in the country's long-running civil war.
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But Trump has broken with key allies on foreign policy decisions involving Iran and climate change, and has repeatedly questioned the United States's role in protecting other nations militarily.
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We've got a range of options -- both militarily, diplomatic, economic and others -- a wide array of tools at the disposal for the president should he choose to use them.
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However, Iraq faces a fresh internal conflict after it retaliated economically and militarily against the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government for holding a referendum on independence despite Baghdad's opposition.
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So far, the sanctions seem to be having little effect on Turkey, either militarily or economically, although the US has threatened further sanctions and called for an immediate ceasefire.
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"There are a lot of areas where we do not want Chinese investment: militarily sensitive things, some areas of high tech," Wilbur L. Ross Jr., the commerce secretary, said.
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After talks with NATO allies in Brussels on Thursday, he said that he did not believe it would be possible to collaborate militarily with Moscow, at least for now.
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The US believes the deployments are "militarily significant" because the missiles are mobile, allowing Moscow to move them rapidly and making it difficult for the US to track them.
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Finally, the program offered an opportunity to support a war that kept the United States militarily occupied beyond China's borders — rendering America less of a threat to China itself.
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The United States has been an ally of the Colombian government over the years and has played an important role in militarily reducing the FARC presence in the country.
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Trump said that he would make a decision about how to respond within a few days, adding that the United States had "a lot of options militarily" on Syria.
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If Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman wants to respond militarily to the airstrikes on its oil facilities, he can go ahead with the kingdom's own fighter jets and missiles.
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A steady flow of foreign people of different skill levels will be essential for the United States to maintain its status as a global power economically, geopolitically, and militarily.
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Polling this year shows a majority of Americans—56 percent—say they believe the U.S. should back its NATO allies militarily in the event of an attack by Moscow.
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Furthermore, it is worth noting the United State's primary ally in Niger is not Niger itself but France, which remains militarily active in its former colony and others nearby.
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Like their predecessors, Trump administration officials are learning that prolonging their deliberations over a course of action makes physically taking it politically and militarily harder – and perhaps even pointless.
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Obama's most decisive action – to intervene militarily in Libya to oust Muammar Gaddafi - unquestionably defined events there, although the unending conflict and instability since were hardly the preferred outcome.
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Some American officials express deep shame over the abandonment of the Kurds and say that United States policy inadvertently left them diplomatically and militarily vulnerable to the Turkish attack.
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Today the average Pole is over three times as rich as his counterpart in Ukraine, and Poland is secured economically, politically and militarily by the European Union and NATO.
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Mr. Netanyahu said he would be meeting President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Wednesday in Moscow, amid escalating tensions over Iran's efforts to entrench itself militarily in Syria.
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Mr. Mugabe sensed that few if any African leaders would publicly oppose him, any more than Western powers, including the United States, would seek to force him out militarily.
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"We have defeated ISIS militarily, but only in the sense that there are no ISIS flags, no buildings that they can openly claim as their own," al-Hashimi adds.
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That support for the militia insulated his business activity from aggressive oversight by the government he was defending militarily, said Tymofiy Mylovanov, president of the Kiev School of Economics.
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"When China was militarily weaker, Japan considered that area to be its backyard," said Ni Lexiong, a naval affairs researcher at the Shanghai University of Political Science and Law.
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Turkey will not engage militarily in Kobani, a Kurdish-majority Syrian city whose desperate stand against ISIS was where the U.S. alliance with Syria's Kurds was forged in blood.
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Paramount among all geopolitical challenges is the absolute necessity of avoiding having a hegemonic power, or concert of powers, emerge with the capability of dominating Eurasia militarily or economically.
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U.S. President Donald Trump has said all options are on the table in dealing with Venezuela, although Abrams has denied Russian accusations that Washington is preparing to intervene militarily.
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Economically speaking, it's a global player, but militarily speaking it's more regionally focused, and concerned with cementing its influence in Asia and establishing hegemony in the South China Sea.
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But national defense is a very important two words, because by having a strong border system, including a wall, we are in a position militarily that is very advantageous.
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So a conflict between China and the US depends on whether the US wants to militarily push China out — and I think that would be a very stupid move.
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Even after it began losing ground militarily, IS still claimed responsibility for attacks made in different countries, though often these have been blamed on "lone wolves" without its direction.
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Carl Thayer, an expert on Vietnam's military at the Australian Defence Force Academy, said the deployment showed the seriousness of Vietnam's determination to militarily deter China as far as possible.
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Aerial bombing had expanded the parameters of the battlefield; techniques had been developed to target civilian architecture, along with theories that made such bombardments seem morally permissible, and militarily desirable.
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Backed militarily by Iran and Russia, Assad has shown no willingness to compromise, much less step aside to allow a transition Western powers see as the solution to the conflict.
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McCain famously called Cruz and other, less militarily adventurous members of Congress "wacko birds" when they filibustered John Brennan's nomination to direct the CIA over the Obama administration's drone policy.
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Following a policy based largely on ideological interests, France has in recent years been quick to intervene militarily in conflicts such as those in Libya, Mali and Central African Republic.
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America and its Afghan ally have been keen to negotiate with the insurgents since the demise of Mr Obama's short-lived surge confirmed their inability to end the war militarily.
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" Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, a Democratic presidential candidate, said in a televised debate in January, "We should stop asking our military to solve problems that cannot be solved militarily.
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But it's much more difficult to turn those threats on Russia, an enormous and militarily advanced state with a leadership ready to "defend national interests" down to the last Russian.
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The United States said last month it would keep some forces in Syria, reversing course from an earlier decision to pull them all out once Islamic State is militarily defeated.
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Though Russia has said that its aim in intervening militarily in Syria is to fight terror groups, it is widely seen as bolstering Assad as he battles the rebel insurgents.
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Even after it began losing ground militarily, the group still claimed responsibility for attacks made in different countries, though often these have been blamed on "lone wolves" without its direction.
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The 2013 sit-in, in Rabaa al-Adawiya Square in Cairo, supported former Islamist President Mohammed Morsi who was militarily ousted following mass protests against his divisive one-year rule.
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The group, which is deemed a terrorist organization by the United States, is more powerful than the state and has grown militarily stronger since joining the Syrian war in 2012.
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Tensions between Moscow and Washington have flared in the aftermath of the chemical attack in Syria, given that Russia has been politically and militarily supporting Assad throughout the civil war.
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The review, which was led by national security adviser H.R. McMaster, proposes a multi-pronged approach aimed at tightening the screws on North Korea economically and militarily, the official said.
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"What we need to do is elevate everybody's understanding of what China's strategic long-term goals are and they are to dominate the United States economically and militarily," said Cornyn.
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The United States is clearly not prepared to act militarily to protect humanitarian assistance in Yemen, nor in the many other conflicts around the world where innocent civilians are suffering.
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" In his Tuesday speech, Mattis said that the issue would have to be resolved "as a nation" noting that the military should not do something that "militarily doesn't make sense.
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SO UNLESS EXPORT CONTROLS OF HIGH-TECH MILITARILY SIGNIFICANT MATERIALS WERE INVOLVED IN THE FACEBOOK THING, I DON'T THINK THAT WE WOULD REALLY HAVE A JURISDICTION FOR GOING IN THERE.
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They complain that President Obama is not doing enough militarily in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan Libya, and in dealing with the threat from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
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"There was a hawkish tone but there wasn't a specific proposal to tell the American public we think we should intervene militarily and put in troops if necessary," he said.
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Obama had said about a year before that that Assad's use of chemical weapons would be a red line, which many interpreted to mean the United States would intervene militarily.
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Putin and his government have been one of the chief supporters of the Assad regime, both militarily and in helping to negotiate ceasefires in the country's long-running civil war.
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Trump has displayed a clear reticence to striking Iran militarily in the run-up to the 2020 US presidential election, preferring more muted actions such as cyberattacks and additional sanctions.
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But if Iran thinks the US and Saudi hesitance to respond militarily against Iran is high enough and the maximum pressure campaign continues unabated, Iran will likely consider more attacks.
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"What we need to do is elevate everybody's understanding of what China's strategic long-term goals are, and they are to dominate the United States economically and militarily," said Cornyn.
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"It's hard to defeat I.S.K.P. militarily without addressing the reasons for the emergence of I.S.K.P. in the first place," said Borhan Osman, the International Crisis Group's senior analyst for Afghanistan.
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They are also wary of how China has become more aggressive militarily, in espionage and in its investment strategy abroad — with targets including its largest trading partner in Europe, Germany.
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Russia, Iran, Turkey and the government in Damascus have all demonstrated that they are more invested, militarily and politically, to shaping the outcome in Syria than is the United States.
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But neither of those outcomes seem particularly likely right now, which means Japan's militarily will probably feature a whole new flock of shiny new American warplanes in the near future.
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Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, who led one of the most right-wing coalitions in Israel's history, resisted the pressure to respond militarily to missile attacks during the Persian Gulf war.
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BAGHDAD — Iraq is prepared to intervene militarily if the Kurdish region's planned independence referendum results in violence, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi told The Associated Press in an interview Saturday.
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I would be surprised if the Iranians opted to strike at us or our allies militarily, because it would give Trump the excuse he needs to hit them very hard.
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Whether it was politically wise or militarily possible to defend the Saigon government, and whether the costs of the commitment outweighed the benefits, are questions that historians continue to debate.
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The 70th anniversary on October 13 will similarly be used by the government to highlight how far China has come economically and militarily since the party took power in 1949.
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In response, the Russian Embassy the following: The tweet appears to mock Earnest and taunt the US to intervene militarily in Syria, and that doing so would be assisting terrorists.
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Increasing America's stockpile of those other weapons, then, might pressure Moscow financially and militarily to come to the table to discuss a way to improve the accord for both sides.
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"If true, the rumor we are hearing — there is a plan to actually start moving and increasing the escalation militarily on the 10th, the time is of essence," he said.
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This may play out politically, economically, or militarily — but however it ends up, it's hard to imagine the US growing closer to Iran as long as Trump is in office.
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"The Russian position has always been divided between those that thought a negotiated solution was the best solution and those that thought propping up Assad militarily was the answer," Tabler said.
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Lauded for its creativity and outside-the-box takes on political conflict, "Game of Thrones" now risks perpetuating an inability to imagine a morally just, militarily astute, consensus-building female ruler.
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But it's also a debate about a very real policy question currently facing the US: Should the US militarily intervene — or intervene at all, in any way, even diplomatically — in Venezuela?
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The Obama administration does not want to get involved militarily in Syria and -- in this time of transition to Donald Trump's White House -- is unlikely to act on much international outrage.
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Along with Russia, Iran has been a crucial ally of Syria's president, Bashar al-Assad, supporting his government militarily, financially and politically since a 2011 rebellion turned into a civil war.
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The Israeli government calculated that Iran would feel less confident in retaliating militarily, possibly setting off a full-fledged regional war, if it were on the defensive in the international arena.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's vice president, retired general Hamilton Mourão, said on Monday that under no circumstances would his country allow the United States to intervene militarily in Venezuela from Brazilian territory.
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President Thieu, although he had just got back from the U.S. and visiting Congress, telling them he was militarily and politically in control, we knew that was garbage, because he wasn't.
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In June, the president submitted to Congress a report detailing all of the places the U.S. is involved militarily (most are listed above), information about deployments and justifications for the operations.
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She has pushed for Germany to become more militarily self-reliant, partly in response to Trump's hinting that he might abandon NATO allies if they do not spend more on defense.
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A senior administration official told CNN Tuesday that interagency discussions are taking place and that many across the administration feel the US should intervene militarily to keep Aleppo in opposition hands.
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He is trying to deal with them economically, he is trying to deal with them militarily, he&aposs trying to deal with them in terms of foreign policy and so forth.
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"We enforced the red line diplomatically, not militarily, and far more effectively than if we had used force," Antony Blinken, a top Obama State Department and White House official, told me.
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The second thing is that it's the further marginalisation of Britain as a power with influence, whether that is true diplomatically, economically or militarily (with the United States or more broadly).
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Going into detail about what he'd do militarily runs contrary to Trump's oft-repeated boast that he doesn't believe in telling our enemies when and how he's going to attack them.
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It could be retaliation for the US role in the Saudi campaign, a sign that the Houthis may be becoming more militarily and ideologically aligned with Iran, or something else entirely.
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They include a militarily resurgent Russia; the instabilities of an imploding Syria and jihadist-inspired terrorism; and Afghanistan, where the Taliban now controls more territory than at any time since 2001.
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This grants the Kingdom unparalleled religious magnitude, allowing it to wield the sort of influence that is indispensable in the fight against religious extremism, be it ideologically, militarily or even digitally.
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But if Iran attacked U.S. military forces first, four out of five believed the United States should respond militarily in a full or limited way, the May 2007-3133 poll showed.
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Washington for years supported rebels militarily against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, but ended its train-and-equip program last year after changing its focus to the fight against Islamic State.
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Panetta called on the Russians, who have been supporting the Syrian regime politically and militarily since the start of the civil war, to work with the United States to oust Assad.
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However, unlike in the Middle East and North Africa, where US assistance, particularly militarily, makes up a large portion of the total, African nations also receive significant funding from other sources.
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Under constant attack from the United States — economically, militarily and through propaganda — it is clear why he thought the revolution had to be protected by the revolutionary party that led it.
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The authors of the report argue that while Salafi-jihadist groups cannot militarily destroy the U.S., they can destroy the idea of the United States and the values it stands for.
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It is more likely to lead to a breakdown in negotiations and a return to war, especially if during a ceasefire we withdraw and leave a militarily weakened Afghan government alone.
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But it has never found a viable, moderate partner on the ground in Syria that was large or effective enough to have even a chance of becoming dominant militarily and politically.
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Voters have never given a ringing endorsement to Mr. Abe's "Take Back Japan" agenda, which promotes a "stronger" Japan both economically and militarily with a distinctively nationalist tone, glorifying Japan's past.
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The concept, the official said, would be to position the missiles in militarily advantageous positions from which they could fire past Russian defenses and target ports, military bases or critical infrastructure.
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Their conclusion is that alliances deter war best when their members are militarily powerful and when enemies take seriously the allies' promise to fight together in the event of an attack.
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Why it matters: While the US has been militarily involved in Syria for several years now, it has concentrated its firepower against ISIS, and has never directly attacked the Assad regime.
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For decades, this relationship has been characterized by periods of calm, often when Baghdad is weak, followed by conflict when central authorities feel powerful enough to take on the Kurds militarily.
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We have very bad laws for our border and we are going to be doing some things, I spoke with (Defense Secretary James) Mattis, we're going to do some things militarily.
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With Australia hugely reliant on the United States for its defense, any breakdown of US influence or presence in the Asia region could leave the island nation militarily adrift, White said.
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All three nations are also members of the Joint Expeditionary Force, a UK-led group of Nordic, Baltic and northern European nations that could operate militarily separate to the NATO alliance.
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My political theory is that President Trump has strong attributes that are seen as virtues by a segment of voters who believe that America has been slipping, economically, militarily, and culturally.
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Trump said in remarks earlier on Wednesday that the United States did not necessarily need to respond militarily to Iranian missile attacks on military bases in Iraq that host U.S. troops.
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President Donald Trump said on Wednesday the United States did not have to respond militarily to Iran's attack, while Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said its strikes "concluded" Tehran's retaliation.
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Following its 1990 reunification, today's Germany remains too weak to effectively lead Europe (militarily and geopolitically) and too strong (economically) to be an equal partner with the other 27 EU members.
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If you put the abhorrent moral vacuum to one side -- as is Russia's default in warfare -- it is militarily quite an effective strategy: the Syrian regime will soon control Ghouta again.
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But his past hesitation about confronting Iran militarily is thought to have spurred recent diplomatic discussions among Riyadh, Abu Dhabi and Tehran, including hopes for progress in the conflict in Yemen.
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L'Ouverture nonetheless showed himself to be those men's superior, philosophically, politically and militarily — a point made by C.L.R. James that survives mostly intact in Philippe Girard's sophisticated and anti-mythological biography.
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Van Cliburn, a lanky American pianist, played the great concertos of Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky in a lush romantic style, proving that America could compete with Russia culturally as well as militarily.
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I needed to understand the technical characteristics of chemical weapons and other toxic chemicals, how they could be used militarily, how they were produced, and how inspections should be carried out.
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It wants to squeeze Tehran financially so the country stops acting so aggressively in the Middle East, like supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad militarily and meddling in Iraq's domestic politics.
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Russia also supports Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and with its help Assad has recovered control of swathes of lost Syrian territory over the last two years and appears militarily unassailable.
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He cited former US President Barack Obama's inaction after issuing a "red line" in 2012 that suggested that the US would intervene militarily if the Assad regime used chemical weapons. 3.
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Even as he has described himself as a non-interventionist unwilling to be "the policeman of the world", Trump has recently shown he is willing to engage militarily when he sees fit.
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A Saudi-led Arab coalition intervened militarily in Yemen in March 2015 in support of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, a Saudi ally, and to push back Iran's influence in the region.
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Iran's leadership have said from the very beginning that if the US strikes the country militarily, they will respond in kind -- and there's no reason to believe that that's not the case.
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JERUSALEM – Israel issued a rare warning Friday that it would intervene militarily if necessary to defend a Druze village on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights after it came under attack.
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The United States, Britain and its allies maintained just enough troops there – the Berlin Brigade – so that while West Berlin remained militarily indefensible, it still could not be taken without a fight.
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However, the dwindling of ISIS militarily has also meant less aid money and donations, leading to deteriorating conditions at already dire displacement camps and concern over how long they can remain open.
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In Israel's case it is to keep its enemies militarily on the back foot and force them into concessions, though it may conversely make them less minded to seek a lasting peace.
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The Soviet Union might have competed with America militarily and even ideologically, but when it came to the soft power projected through high art and low commerce, it was simply no contest.
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Writing in The Washington Post this week, Ehud Barak, a former Israeli prime minister, boasted that the country is "powerful scientifically, economically and militarily" and ruled out Iran as an existential threat.
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Mr. Obama has argued, with some justification, that confronting Russia militarily in Ukraine would be a losing battle, since Ukraine means much more to Russia than it does to the United States.
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China's Communist Party has always maintained that Taiwan is part of its territory and vowed to pursue reunification, vacillating between building economic and social ties with the island and threatening it militarily.
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The Trump administration has unleashed America's armed forces and empowered our Arab partners in the Middle East, and so taken a putatively "generational threat" and militarily crushed it in under a year.
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Equally importantly, China today can inflict far more harm on the U.S. — militarily as well as economically — than America would be willing to bear compared with the contest against the Soviet Union.
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Depending on what Kim Jong Un might do, the use of these weapons in retaliation or pre-emption would have to be considered proportional in both scope and size and militarily necessary.
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"We'd like nothing better than to have a government in place in Libya whom we could work with and from whom we would gain consent for engaging militarily in Libya," Clapper said.
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"I did not say that neither the United States nor France was going to remain militarily committed in Syria," he insisted in a news conference with New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.
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"It will take years and years for people to forget, and I don't think they will forget," he said, describing recent months as a "stress test" for Qatar financially, militarily and socially.
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North Korea threatened Monday to use nuclear weapons against the U.S. if it is provoked militarily, adding that its nuclear weapons program is not up for negotiation, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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Russia and Iran have militarily backed the Assad government in the Syrian civil war, while Saudi Arabia and Qatar have funneled arms to the opposition, which has been fighting the Assad government.
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The US has long been the world's richest, most militarily powerful, and most diplomatically influential country on Earth; the centerpiece of its global strategy has been to maintain this position of strength.
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Some experts and regional diplomats believe the strong commercial presence could further complicate any future regional solution should Beijing, which research shows has encouraged firms to operate, protect them politically and militarily.
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For the new national leaders, the establishment of nation-states out of the militarily defeated and socioeconomically devastated Hapsburg monarchy seemed to coincide with the march of history toward ethno-national sovereignty.
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Khalilzad's public statement that the Taliban believe they will "not win militarily" apparently angered senior members of the group, who warned U.S. officials against mixed messages that could muddle the peace process.
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"Strategically we need to strengthen the French presence threefold: economically, culturally and militarily," Marielle de Sarnez, the head of France's parliamentary foreign affairs committee, said after being dispatched by Macron last May.
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Isolating the regime politically, confronting it militarily, supporting and empowering the Iranian people and bringing European powers on board are strategic objectives that should be pursued simultaneously and in an integrated fashion.
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Both U.S. and U.S.S.R. continued to antagonize each other verbally and militarily, the culmination of which led the Cold War conflict to erupt into a full blown nuclear crisis in October 1962.
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I'm certain that 40 years ago sitting in that room my grandfather would not have dreamed the military he left behind would be in such a weak position militarily, strategically and politically.
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