
Alec Cadzow: Global Britain must be prepared to intervene in the Middle East
The region has been conspicuously absent from our foreign policy discourse, largely attributable to mistrust on intervention caused by the Iraq war.
The region has been conspicuously absent from our foreign policy discourse, largely attributable to mistrust on intervention caused by the Iraq war.
The main issue is not that the latter’s actions are extreme, but that they’re anti-constitutional.
Above all, we need to focus on the strategic picture. Throughout the world democracy, human rights and the rule of law are under pressure.
It is shameful that Britain has never acknowledged the Turkish genocide of more than a million Armenians just over a century ago.
Multilateral political cooperation with the EU, as well as the bilateral relations with its member states, remains in the UK’s best interest.
We should have supported an extension to the conventional arms embargo at the United Nations in August – and must back sanctions.
Tensions have been building for the best part of a year, serious skirmishes broke out in June – and America is nowhere to be seen.
The Coronavirus coverup, assaults on democracy and the appalling genocide of the Uyghur Muslims mean that the world must distance itself from the CCP.
At the start of the summer there were reasons for optimism about an agreement. However, the mood appears to have turned.
To do so would mean more than staying in step with Trump. For no US administration could accept being bound into a UN system without a veto.
Sunni Arab leaders now recognise that Iran’s aggression represents an existential threat to more than just the Jewish state.
From Brexit, to climate change, to the World Trade Organization, how would this administration align with the UK government?
If Putin hoped that Brexit would detach us from our alliances, there’s no evidence of that happening so far, and much to the contrary.
It is our third largest market – we must work with it if we are to help resolve global problems from the environment to nuclear proliferation.
Those that prevent ordinary Syrians from accessing humanitarian aid and economic opportunities should be ended.