Russian servicemen equip an Iskander tactical missile system at a facility near Moscow. (file photo)
Radio Free Europe: New Weaponry, More Spending, Tough Rhetoric Stoke Fears Of New U.S.-Russia Arms Race
WASHINGTON -- A new Russian intercontinental ballistic missile. Upgraded U.S. nuclear gravity bombs and air-launched nuclear cruise missiles. A European exclave freshly bristling with Russian ballistic missiles.
And all of that military hardware topped off with a warning from Russia's president one day after a U.S.-built missile-defense system went online in Romania.
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- May 19, 2016
Iraq, Syria and the cost of intervention (and non-intervention) -- Michael White, The Guardian
Commander's death pulls Hezbollah deeper into Syria quagmire -- Mohamad Bazzi, Reuters
Terrorist to the World, Hero at Home: The Legacy of Hezbollah's Dead Military Commander -- Sulome Anderson, VICE
The Iran Deal: Myth and Reality -- Jeremy Bernstein, New York Review Of Books
Afghan insurgency likely to continue despite peace deal -- DW
Incoming Taiwan government likely to infuriate China from the word go -- Faith Hung, Reuters
U.S. should stop provocations in South China Sea -- Xinhuanet editorial
Libya’s Breakdown -- Tarek El-Tablawy, Bloomberg
The Death of Free Media in Russia -- Anna Nemtsova, Daily Beast
These 5 Facts Explain Why Venezuela Could Be on the Brink of Collapse -- Ian Bremmer, Time
A Rebuke to Venezuela’s President -- Ernesto Londono, NYT
Is Saudi Arabia calling the market's bluff over oil? -- Holly Ellyatt, CNBC
Global Migration? Actually, The World Is Staying Home -- Guido Mingels, Spiegel Online
Most people are willing to welcome refugees into their countries, poll finds -- Bamzi Banchiri, CSM
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