WASHINGTON Russiais is conducting a series of military and rhetorical escalations toward Ukraine that have anxious Western analysts once again looking for clues as to President Vladimir V. Putin's next move.
What has changed is not the South's "appeasement" but his heedless will toward escalation.
PATCO viewed the strike as an unfortunate escalation of negotiations toward a long-term agreement with their bosses, the federal government.
Citizens' groups fear an escalation of hostility toward the police if the investigations do not result in charges or if there are more shootings.
But Feaver said mixed signals during the decision-making process forced Obama "to do a sharp pivot back" toward escalation, complicating his task of rallying public opinion.
"If Russian-Iranian stubbornness continues, the situation will head toward escalation," remarked Bashar al-Zoubi, head of the political office of the Yarmouk Army, a rebel group operating under the banner of the moderate Free Syrian Army. .
Rand Paul, the only GOP candidate supporting a non-interventionist foreign policy, is presumed to be more or less finished as a potential president: As the conversation turns toward escalation, his argument that America should avoid foreign entanglements seems likely to fall on deaf ears.
Eleanor Smeal, the founder and president of the Feminist Majority Foundation, said a survey her group commissioned last year found an escalation of hostile acts toward doctors at abortion clinics.
TORONTO — An escalation of aggressive police tactics toward even apparently peaceful protests at the Group of 20 summit meeting led to calls for a review of security activities.
The civilian policy makers and generals who led Mr. Obama toward a troop escalation in Afghanistan during his first year in office, a decision that left him deeply distrustful of senior military leaders, have been replaced by a handpicked leadership that includes Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
