The latter is inconsistent with being an ally.

Is all that not a little much for a potential ally?

For starters, they can strengthen the ally effect.

Iran and Russia want to retain their crucial ally.

They found an ally in that cause in Bush.

In the contest between fact and fantasy, fact suddenly had a powerful ally.

To be sure, Japan's treaty alliance with the United States provides for its security.

It will be particularly significant for Poland, a staunch ally of the US in NATO.

Until a decade ago, Turkey was regarded as no more than a staunch NATO ally.

Iran, too, is likely to face a reckoning, as its ally in Damascus approaches defeat.

The last of them was Evo Morales, an explicit and staunch soporter of Humala APC1 .

Here, Israel may come under growing pressure from its principal ally.

It is permissible, according to bin Laden s ally in Iraq, Abu Musab Zarqawi, to spill infidel blood.

Simultaneously, there has been considerable erosion of support from Musharraf s strongest external backer, the United States.

Ukraine also has two allies, he added, Jared Leto and the Russian liberal intelligentsia.

He was also the head of state of a kingdom that was at war with Spain and France.

To a large extent, Ethiopia exploits its position as western powers stable ally in the volatile Horn of Africa.

Yet the Bush administration insists The US views South Korea as a strong and steadfast ally.

Listening to the Chancellor and his Foreign Minister address some 270 international defense and security experts in February at the annual Munich Conference for Security Policy , it was impressive how all sang in tune, a tune Fischer composed.

In Vietnam, the United States was not invading a country, but defending a corrupt authoritarian ally against an aggressive Communist regime.

As a result, an audience of staunch Atlanticists saw Germany as a responsible, reliable ally.

The new interpretation would allow Japan to use military force in support of an ally if Japanese security is under threat.

The spirit of science found a tactical ally in the Catholic Church, which held that belief in vampires defiles the resurrection of Jesus.

The Arab position is that no proximity talks can be held until Israel freezes its settlement activity in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Palestinian and Arab opinion is waiting for the US, as Israel s ally, to intervene and press for concessions.

Those, like Netanyahu, who stick to the lunacy of a military operation against Iran, will not find a ready ally in Obama.

Deng wanted to punish the Vietnamese for their own invasion of Cambodia, which ended the genocidal rule of China s allies, the Khmer Rouge.

It is as if Mexico and Canada sought a Chinese alliance to balance the US in North America.

Palestinian and Arab opinion is waiting for the US, as Israel s ally, to intervene and press for concessions.

It really did a lot for the development of democracy around the world, but everything changes like inside a kaleidoscope with a leader like this, and we see in Trump the ally of a dictator.

But soon he seemed scared of his own boldness and faded into an almost invisible ally.

Pakistan might find it extremely difficult to reconcile the security of its Chinese ally with its de facto proxy war with India.

It is therefore vitally important to take Syria, an ally of Iran and the patron of spoilers such as Hamas and Hezbollah, out of the war equation.

The nineteenth century czar Alexander III once said Russia has only two true allies its army and its navy.

These outlets are linked to the movement of Erdogan s former ally Fethullah Gulen, whose network the AKP accuses of being a parallel state structure.

Iran has strengthened its influence in Iraq, and has helped to keep the Assad regime, a key ally, in power much longer than expected.

Hence, Japan must be seen to be doing more to support its inseparable ally, as well as international peacekeeping efforts in general.

Of course, it is impossible to know whether China s response this time marks a genuine strategic withdrawal from its role as the North s only ally and key economic benefactor.

Russia has two allies, her army and her navy, wrote Twitter funnyman alcohistory, quoting the famous Tsar Alexander III maxim.

That strategic nightmare cost Israel and the US their closest ally in the region, one that was soon transformed into an implacable enemy.

So far, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh s government has not relented, despite the loss of support from a key coalition ally.

Dissent comes not only from the street, but also from the Wahhabi religious establishment, the al Sauds longstanding ally and source of their legitimacy.

In 2011, he attempted to dismiss Heider Moslehi, an ally of Khamenei, from his position as intelligence chief, but was quickly overruled.

Turkey, on the other hand, after some initial hesitation, has thrown its weight fully behind Assad s opponents, including by providing refuge to them, as well as to defectors from Syria s army.

The second key issue that Francis will address relates to the Israel Palestine conflict a fraught subject for the US, Israel s most important ally.

Iran has been heavily invested in the Assad regime, its lone Arab ally and the main conduit for delivering material support to Hezbollah in Lebanon.