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 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.
Only 12 percent of Britons polled by YouGov expect Liz Truss to be a good or great government chief. More than half – 52 percent -- predict she will be poor or terrible.
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“This attack casts serious doubt on the credibility of Russia’s commitment to yesterday’s deal and undermines the work of the U.N., Turkey and Ukraine to get critical food to world markets,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement late Saturday.
With the dumpster-load of diplomatic crises left behind by his America First predecessor, Biden waded into the volatile region with the modest objective of resetting damaged relations with allies and adversaries alike.
Xi and Putin speak in the same imperialist language about the historical bonds and blood ties with their coveted territories. They pursue the same legacy of greatest leader of all time.