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"as long as Vladimir Putin stands at the head of affairs"

"Since leaving as secretary of homeland security in January 2009"

"former defense secretary Robert Gates"

"Russian President Vladimir Putin"

"President Bashar al-Assad to destroy his country"

"John Cassidy is a British-American journalist, who is a staff writer at The New Yorker"

"General David Petraeus, who was then the head of U.S. Central Command"

"In an op-ed in the Times earlier this year, Avi Shlaim... Shlaim's op-ed appeared in the International New York Times"

"Victories like those Putin has notched up in Ukraine will awaken rather than slake his ambition"

"more NATO installations and more US troops in places like Estonia"

"more NATO installations and more US troops in places like Estonia and Romania"

"rallying the nation to the cause of NATO is in the President's job description now"

"Linking up with anti-Brussels, anti-Berlin politicians like Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban, Russia is developing deeper financial, economic and"

"formulating a response to Putin's aggression against a peaceful neighboring state"

"Russia is pursuing an aggressive, influence-expanding program inside the EU and NATO as well as outside it."

"Russia is pursuing an aggressive, influence-expanding program inside the EU and NATO as well as outside it."

"Al Jazeera... John Bell"

"The Washington Post... Michael Chertoff"

"Washington Post... David Ignatius"

"The American Interest... Walter Russell Mead"

"NYT... Alaa Al Aswany"

"WSJ... James Traub"

"George Soros (whose views, one believes, the Kremlin follows carefully even if it loathes his influence)... Putin apparently not only believes the Sor"

"Michael Chertoff was secretary of the Department of Homeland Security from 2005 to 2009"

"He co-founded and is chairman of the Chertoff Group"

"He co-founded and is chairman of the Chertoff Group"

"In phone conversations with Obama, most recently Monday, Putin hasn't used strident rhetoric"

"Putin has exploited this imbalance, seizing Crimea"

"Lanxin Ziang, a fellow at the Transatlantic Academy"

"John Bell is Director of the Middle East Programme at the Toledo International Centre for Peace"

"to provide aid and encouragement for anti-western leaders like Hungary's Orban would suit Putin very well"

"Walter Russell Mead is James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College"

"Editor-at-Large of The American Interest magazine"

"Professor Allen R. McConnell of Miami University"

"Professor Ronald F. Levant of the University of Akron"

"the Brotherhood government showed growing contempt... undermining Mr. Morsi"

"Rachid Ghannouchi, the founder of Tunisia's Nanda party"

"the revolutionary Saad Zaghloul was appointed an honorary president of the club"

"post later filled by Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1956"

"Zamalek... was presided over by General Mohammad Haidar Pasha"

"His sons, Alaa and Gamal"

"His sons, Alaa and Gamal"

"Hassan al-Banna founded the group in 1928"

"Mr. Hamid, a scholar at the Brookings Institution"