Week in Review: Youth Violence, Germany’s Turkey Strategy, Nazis in Germany, and More

Week in Review: Youth Violence, Germany’s Turkey Strategy, Nazis in Germany, and More

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Week in Review: Youth Violence, Germany’s Turkey Strategy, Nazis in Germany, and More

All you need to know about everything in the news this week

November 14, 2015

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Top Stories:

Racism and youth violence on campuses

  • The Black Lives Matter movement often quotes words from a fugitive cop killer and one of the fbi’s most-wanted terrorists, Assata Shakur, to inspire the masses. The group of young activists responsible for bringing down University of Missouri president Tim Wolfe did the same thing.
  • “We’re trying to break the system down,” said a student activist. “[I]t just so happens we’re starting with [Wolfe].”

    • Germany’s Turkey strategy

  • Europe needs Turkey to stem the tide of refugees pouring into the Continent. Specifically, it needs recently reelected President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
  • German Chancellor Angela Merkel influenced Turkey’s November 1 vote by visiting the country on the eve of the elections.
  • The European Commission’s annual progress report on Turkey, due to have been released October 19, was instead released November 10—a week after the election.
  • This Turkey strategy is discussed in the EU Observer’s article “EU Publishes Delayed Report on Turkey’s Sins.”

    • Pentagon’s lonely war against Russia and China

  • On November 7, United States Defense Secretary Ashton Carter “gave a sober, stark review of national security challenges that seemed out of line with the administration’s approach on Russia, Syria, Ukraine and even China,” said Eric Edelman, a former undersecretary of defense for policy in the Bush administration.
  • “We do not seek a cold, let alone a hot, war with Russia,” Secretary Carter said. “We do not seek to make Russia an enemy. But make no mistake; the United States will defend our interests, our allies, the principled international order, and the positive future it affords us all.”

    • Nazis in Europe

  • Every second senior executive in the Western Ministry of the Interior was a former Nazi, according to a new report.
  • “Just two years after their defeat,” we wrote in our free booklet Germany and the Holy Roman Empire, “the Germans were actually told to denazify themselves!”
  • That denazification effort, evidently, was a farce, and its ramifications are huge.

    • Other news:

  • The Islamic State claimed responsibility for twin suicide bomb blasts that killed at least 43 people and wounded more than 240 in Beirut, Lebanon, on Thursday.
  • Germany’s foreign intelligence agency reportedly spied on the fbi and U.S. arms companies, “adding to a growing list of targets among friendly nations the agency allegedly eavesdropped on,” according to the Associated Press.
  • China’s space warfare arsenal now has a newly tested Dong-Neng-3 exoatmospheric vehicle—a “satellite killer” capable of knocking out the United States’ strategic satellites.
  • The Washington Free Beacon reported November 11 that China is quietly expanding its military influence in Africa, particularly in Djibouti.

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