States threatened border war with other states.
Whoever wins the coming battle for northern Syria will go a long way towards victory in the war that has levelled much of the country and set the neighbourhood ablaze, threatening borders drawn a century ago and shattering several millennia of co-existence from the Mediterranean coast to Iraq's Ninevah plains.
Earlier, the White House also raised the stakes in its standoff over immigration, warning that efforts to block reform threaten border security and the wages of 100,000 government employees.
The Russian reset came after Syrian Kurdish forces supported from the air and directed on the ground by Moscow manoeuvred into new areas, which imperiled the Syrian opposition, but more importantly for Turkey, directly threatened its borders.
The sources cited by the newspaper said the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union party (PYD) and the Kurdish militias of the People's Protection Units (YPG) would not be targeted unless "they threatened Turkish borders" or tried to "change the demographic" in Syria.
1962 Thais Agree to U.S. Plans WASHINGTON — The United States today [May 14] received the assent of Thailand for the assignment of two crack American battle groups to strategic points near its Communist-threatened borders with Laos.
So, too, would retaliatory measures against a threatened US border tax.
Others don't want to interfere in the internal affairs of a neighbour, unless the instability threatens their borders.
President Thabo Mbeki, the A.N.C.'s leader, says the mere notion that its dominance threatens democracy borders on racism.
But there was another call to arms: Alexius I Comnenus, the emperor of Byzantium that is, of Catholic Europe's Eastern brother had asked the Pope for help against Muslim forces threatening his borders.
Resentful of Kabila's seeming favouritism to members of his own ethnic group and fearful of reprisals from rival factions, they were supported by the governments of Uganda and Rwanda, which had been angered by Kabila's failure to prevent raiders from threatening their borders.
