Carol J Williams

A self-inflicted wound called Brexit, compounded by the global economic body blows of the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, has laid low a mighty power.

Empact Northwest’s initial work in the chaotic exodus following Russia’s Feb. 24, 2022, invasion focused on creating an orderly evacuation.

The galvanizing message of the Biden Doctrine is much like the founding principle of NATO, that an attack on any one of the alliance’s 30 member states is an attack on all and must be collectively defended.

The symbolism of Biden pledging before the cameras and the eyes of the world to provide Zelensky with “whatever it takes, however long it takes,” could not have been lost on Putin.Masters of our Fate:

Belarus’s highest-ranking diplomat was known to resist Russian President Vladimir Putin’s efforts to bully Belarus into arming, training and deploying forces into Russia’s disastrous war.

“Some changes now seem inevitable. The sense of the regime’s invincibility, and women’s marginalization from politics, has been shattered."

The NATO treaty obligation to come to the defense of any of NATO’s 30 nations under attack could have been the long-feared spark for World War III

The final vote was closer than pollsters had predicted – Lula’s 50.9% to Bolsonaro’s 49.1% --  intensifying concern that the incumbent would cry foul.

Poorly-conceived political ploys aimed at amassing power in Washington’s dysfunctional and narrow-thinking legislative ranks run the risk of appeasing the aggressor in the Kremlin.

The suspected Ukrainian hand in Saturday’s bombing of the $4-billion Kerch Strait Bridge linking the Russian mainland to Crimea may not have damaged the strategic span as much as it did Putin’s pose as commander-in-chief directing a war that is “going as planned.”