The U.S. and Global Security Review - Blog by Michael Novakhov

Spy vs. Spy: Inside the Fraying U.S.-Israel Ties Friday October 23 rd , 2015  at  9:45 AM 1 Share The U.S. closely monitored Israel’s military bases and eavesdropped on secret communications in 2012, fearing its longtime ally might try to carry out a strike on Fordow, Iran’s most heavily fortified nuclear facility. Nerves frayed at the White House after senior officials learned Israeli aircraft had flown in and out of Iran in what some believed was a dry run for a commando raid on the site. Worried that Israel might ignite a regional war, the White House sent a second aircraft carrier to the region and readied attack aircraft, a senior U.S. official said, “in case all hell broke loose.” The two countries, nursing a mutual distrust, each had something to hide. U.S. officials hoped to restrain Israel long enough to advance negotiations on  a nuclear deal with Iran  that the U.S. had launched in secret. U.S. officials saw Israel’s strike preparatio

"As Russia understands it, the "American leadership" that U.S. President Barack Obama and others talk about is a plot to isolate Russia. This means that in Syria Russia has decided to strike a blow not so much against the Islamic State or the enemies of Syrian President Bashar Assad as against "American leadership" in the Middle East. The plan is for Syria to become a proxy war in which Russia and her allies demonstrate the end of American leadership, and the United States is forced to seek new allies and spend valuable resources proving the opposite... The Russian System will continue to find places to operate across the world and to project Russian geopolitical and symbolic influence beyond its borders. It will do so as long as the world has crises that ask for a military response and the other services the Russian System provides." Russia's System of Managed Chaos (Op-Ed)   by By Gleb Pavlovsky  U.S. and Kurdish Commandos Said to Raid