America by Proxy?

I was fascinated by the Cold War, by the INF negotiations over intermediate range nuclear missiles, the proxy war between the Soviet Union and the U.S.

This position was accompanied by Iran s harder line on military involvement in the Syrian civil war, echoed by its Lebanese proxy Hezbollah.

This is when the two superpowers were fighting a war by proxy, along the periphery of the sphere of influence, fully funding arms organizations.

The Soviet Union opposed the United States in a number of proxy conflicts all over the world, including Korean War and Vietnam War.

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

Iran and Saudi Arabia have long challenged each other for geopolitical influence in the region, most recently during the 'proxy war' in Yemen.

Following the Soviet Union, the US withdrew from the conflict, too, and at that moment, the second Afghan war started a proxy war between regional neighbors over power in the Hindu Kush, disguised as a civil war.

In international politics, as in education, there is no such thing as care by proxy.

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PRINCETON What began in Syria as a revolt against an oppressive regime has evolved into a sectarian civil war and, more recently, into a proxy conflict.

This Abyssinian Adal War was also one of the first proxy wars in the region, as the Ottoman Empire and Portugal took sides in the conflict.

On 16 September 1714 she was married by proxy at Parma to Philip V of Spain.

The US led effort in Syria is thus best understood as a proxy war with Iran a cynical strategy that has contributed to the massive rise in violence.

Moreover, men, owing to their dominant situation, often influence women by making them sign over their proxy votes.

Those who foresee war argue that Israel is unwilling to tolerate a heavily armed Iranian proxy on its border while tensions with Iran over the nuclear issue remain unresolved.

But, proxy war or not, this almost unprecedented redrawing of Africa s colonial borders (Eritrea two decades ago was the last example) could have profound consequences for the continent s future.

Behind the all too foreseeable end of the American stabilizing mission lurks a civil war in Iraq, which threatens to turn into an Arab Iranian proxy war for dominance in Iraq, the Gulf, Lebanon, the Palestinian territories, and beyond.

Indeed, Lebanon, following the collapse of Najib Mikati s government, is already on the brink of civil war, as direct intervention in Syria by Hezbollah, Iran s Lebanese proxy, to prevent Assad s overthrow has exacerbated the country s own longstanding sectarian tensions.

The former prime minister of Malaysia, Mahathir Bin Mohammed, has said that the Jews rule the world by proxy.

Syria s civil war is therefore increasingly a proxy fight between Iran and the US (and other anti Iranian countries), with Syrians dying in massive numbers as victims of somebody else s conflict.

The two sides fought proxy wars in Africa and Asia.

What was supposed to be a coordinated effort to protect civilians from ruthless repression and advance a peaceful transition the plan developed by former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has now degenerated into a proxy war between the United States and Russia.

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Moreover, the Syrian civil war has become a proxy in an openly declared battle for regional hegemony between Iran on one side and Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, and the US on the other.

Iraq refers in particular to potential errors resulting from the use of large numbers of proxy respondents possible confounding factors due to differences in pre war health status between the exposed and control groups and potential errors in the diagnoses of diseases by doctors.

Israel is, however, a semi imperial power, using traditional colonial methods ruling by proxy, dividing potential rebels, rewarding obeisance, and punishing opposition.

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When the regime cracks down on the Internet, people use proxy servers.

In order to facilitate the greatest access to those affected, it should be possible to submit restitution claims by post or by proxy, as well as in person.

Indeed, Samak s People Power Party (PPP) is widely considered a proxy for Thaksin.

Nor should the possibility be ruled out that Iran might be tempted to back its regional ambitions by supplying nuclear material to proxy terrorist groups.

Both wars are not only civil wars, but also proxy wars about regional power.

Renewed conflict could also drag in the United States (supporting the South) and China (Bashir s key international backer) into a dangerous and potentially escalating proxy conflict of the kind that was common in Africa throughout the Cold War.

Thaksin s detractors call his rural strategy (which his proxy successors have followed) cynical vote buying.

A court challenge resulted in the reinstatement of the proxy method. Funding however, was capped.

Extensive lobbying, directly and by proxy, is underway to persuade European regulators to allow long term supply contracts in the EU despite their deadening effect on competition.

It is the prospect of a proxy war that makes all the unsettled issues the division of oil revenue, the demarcation of the border, and the fate of the adjoining Nuba Mountains and the Blue Nile region so potentially explosive.

If gender is a proxy for diversity, then central banks fail a basic test of it.

In the twentieth century, the superpowers supported insurgency and counterinsurgency as a type of proxy conflict.

That means that buying the Australian dollar is seen as a proxy for investing in China.

Any military intervention would entail a confrontation not only with the Syrian military (supported by Russia and China), but also with Shia Iran and its Lebanese proxy, Hezbollah.