Monday, February 15, 2016

Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- February 15, 2016



Marc Champion, Bloomberg: Syrian Truce Is Dead, and Russia's in Charge

Syria's cease-fire deal was born in Munich, in the early hours of Friday morning -- and pronounced dead in the same town within a day, a development that exposed just how little influence the U.S. now has over the conflict.

U.K. Foreign Minister Philip Hammond probably had the smartest take on the deal, when he divided it into two parts during the annual Munich Security Conference, which began hours after the deal was signed. One part, to deliver humanitarian aid to besieged civilians, will probably happen to some extent and would surely be a worthwhile achievement. The other, a potential truce, is entirely dependent on what Russia wants, Hammond said.

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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- February 15, 2016

This ‘cease-fire’ in Syria is a farce — and a bloody one at that -- Andrew Peek, New York Daily News

Why are Syrian Kurds pivoting toward Moscow? -- Morgan L. Kaplan, Washington Post

Syrian refugees in Turkey are pawns in a geopolitical game -- Cihan Tugal, The Guardian

The Growing Intensity of Turkey's Civil War -- Katrin Kuntz, Onur Burçak Belli and Emin Oezmen, Spiegel Online

For veteran Turkish smuggler, only an army could stop migrant flow -- Dasha Afanasieva, Reuters

Iran’s Elections: Reformists, Hardliners and the ‘Deep State’ -- Muhammad Sahimi, National Interest

America’s policies are failing its regional allies -- Hassan Hassan, The National

What the Pentagon Thinks About North Korea -- Ankit Panda, The Diplomat

To Purge or Not to Purge: China’s Anti-Corruption Campaign -- Leo Lin, The Diplomat

Africa fails blood-soaked Burundi -- Richard Chelin, BDLive

Turkish-German Pact: EU Split by Merkel's Refugee Plan -- Horand Knaup, Peter Müller, René Pfister and Christoph Schult, Spiegel Online

Will Merkel Pay for Doing the Right Thing? -- Roger Cohen, NYT

Vladimir Putin Wants to Destroy NATO -- David Blair, The Telegraph

Send Putin a Message in Eastern Europe -- Bloomberg editorial

Russian PM: A 'New Cold War' (Video) -- RT

What happens to Supreme Court cases this year? -- Ariane de Vogue, CNN

The Shifting Threat Landscape -- Michael Allen, The Cipher

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