But already he has made foes.
Mr Kadyrov was also recently said to have made foes among the Russian forces occupying Chechnya, by muscling in on some of their lucrative scams.The bomb exploded under the VIP stand of a stadium in which Mr Kadyrov was watching a parade to celebrate Victory Day, the anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945.
Indeed, several centrist Democrats worry that a flawed deal may well be in the offing, pushed by a Secretary of State, John Kerry, who puts extraordinary faith in his ability to make foes see reason, and a president who has set red lines in the past and then failed to enforce them.
They thought our shock-and-awe war would change America's image, adding some muscularity that would make Arab foes cower and the world bow down to the U.S. as an unassailable hyperpower.
They made their foes the friends of their critics -- and they made the populist threat a self-fulfilling prophecy.
And in a possible reference to Trump's meeting in Helsinki with Vladimir Putin Monday, Frans Timmermans, first vice-president of the European Commission, tweeted: "Calling your best friends foes only makes your real foes happy.
McGregor offered everything he had, and when that didn't work he mirrored the actions of several of his foes, making a desperate takedown attempt.
Come the novel's close, he will have donned several more guises, making friends and foes as he journeys from the South Coast to Lanzarote, via Eton, Heidelberg and London, in many ways Cox's largest character, where he works as a solicitor's private investigator.
Keep in mind: Even if Rauner-backed candidates win, one of Madigan's unique strengths is making friends of foes.
America, for its part, has not yet fought free of an antipathy to Iran that makes any foe of the Islamic Republic America's friend.Iran, which lost 300,000 men in its war with Iraq, is alive to the danger of being sucked into a regional war.
