Why Putin Makes a Bad Ally

Germany was allied with Italy in World War II.

I want to be your ally, not your enemy.

Indeed, two recent developments may help anchor Kazakhstan as a Western ally.

In 1884, Spain created a protectorate in the coastal areas of Morocco.

In October 2010, the Justice League of America will be teaming up with The 99.

Indeed, Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki s government is becoming increasingly allied with Iran.

García defeated Ollanta Humala, who would have presumably joined the drift toward Chavez.

For starters, the US now has a real friend and ally in the Élysée Palace.

Since 1951, Australia has been a formal military ally of the US, under the ANZUS treaty.

After all, Japan was a political ally throughout the half century of the Cold War.

Hungary, the other hereditary enemy, is a fellow NATO ally relations with Ukraine are nasty, but peaceful.

Yet Erdoğan s best ally in his risky gambit may be the US consumer.

There are also long standing border disputes between China and India, and between India and China s ally, Pakistan.

The Bosporan Kingdom also remained independent under Pharnaces II of Pontus as an ally and friend of Rome.

And, between these two extremes, there is fierce debate over whether Al Jazeera is friend or foe.

Japan remains a model ally that hosts a large US troop presence, even paying for the upkeep of American forces on its soil.

At first blush, the idea that Russia is a natural ally against Islamist terrorists seems to make sense.

Once fully operational, the National Transparency Platform is intended to be a powerful ally in the fight against corruption in Mexico.

Iran, for its part, has proclaimed Syria an indispensable ally, and is determined to prevent regime change there by all available means.

Moreover, Taiwan is a natural ally of any party that espouses the values of pluralist politics, free markets, and human rights.

But that success is temporary, and Ukraine is too valuable an ally for the EU to abandon.

For the last decade, it has been one Africa's most stable nations, a solid Western ally with a fast growing economy.

Speaker Maseeh is a key ally of Maldives President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom, who is battling several charges of corruption against him.

Although not an open ally of the English, John did nothing to prevent the surrender of Rouen in 1419.

She became my first ally in the game, my husband Kiyash joined next, and together we identified and battled the bad guys.

In the end, America s position in the region strengthened after Egypt became a US ally and made peace with Israel.

For example, the current Christian leadership is a political ally of Hezbollah, even though the former opposed and the latter favored Syria s continuing occupation of Lebanon.

Yet Indonesia is also trying to align itself with Asia s rising power, China, by seeking greater defense and security cooperation.

Fethullah Gulen, a Pennsylvania based Turkish preacher and visionary, was Erdogan's ally before he became his enemy.

Rather than becoming an ally, India is more likely to become one of the Asian countries that will tend to balance China s strategic rise.

But is fighting America's war a jihad, and are soldiers slain by Al Qaida or other former allies also martyrs?

Currently Azerbaijan says it has ceased hostilities amid a flurry of statements of concern by the West and Russia, a military ally of Armenia's.

In this sense, Trump looks to us like an unfriendly, hostile leader a hostile leader who is our potential adversary and possibly one of Putin s allies.

He was an indispensable ally of the West in the fight against Islamist terrorism, culminating in Ethiopia s military operation in neighboring Somalia in 2006.

During the 1990 s, violence there between Bhutto s party and a local ethnic party now allied with Musharraf took thousands of lives.

A wave of military, government, and diplomatic defections, led by his long time ally First Armored Brigade Commander General Ali Muhsin al Ahmar, rocked his regime.

To convince skeptics, the party will have to break with conventional Turkish policies on Cyprus, and with conventional Islamist doubts about Europe. To top it off, Turkey must reach some agreement with its closest ally, the US, if it moves against Iraq.

The Bush administration is slowly recognizing that for a Pakistani leader to be an effective counterterrorism ally, he or she must have a modicum of legitimacy.

The week before the presidential elections, the SCAF allied Constitutional Court dissolved the recently elected parliament, alleging illegality in the voting process.

To top it off, Turkey must reach some agreement with its closest ally, the US, if it moves against Iraq.

When all things are considered, Germany is a more reliable ally and partner than Ukraine, which some in Warsaw see as a potential counterweight to Russia.

A Europe overwhelmed by a demographic challenge, in addition to its economic and security challenges, would be neither able nor willing to be an effective ally.

Responding to such threats requires cooperation, soft power, and non military instruments, and this is an area in which Japan is a much more equal and important ally.

By driving up energy prices, Bush was Putin s greatest ally, with Putin returning the favor by refocusing Russia from its multiple problems to terrorism.