Carol J. Williams is a retired foreign correspondent with 30 years' reporting abroad for the Los Angeles Times and Associated Press. She has reported from more than 80 countries, with a focus on USSR/Russia and Eastern Europe.
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.
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.”
Political commentators called this election Brazil’s most important in decades, with the future of democracy, social peace and upward mobility opportunities on the line.