Carol J Williams

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.

Trump’s Iran War: In the hands of Entertainers and Profiteers

No amount of President Donald Trump's pre-dawn social media crowing about how his fierce military won the war in Iran can distract from the blatant reality of U.S. capitulation. Iran...

Putin is Losing in Ukraine. His Will to Fight On is Undaunted

Bombs and hardships that hadn't hit Russians where they live are now daily occurrences, turning public opinion against the war that Putin will have a hard time ending even if he decides he wants to.

Forty Years Ago this week: Russia Bungled Chernobyl, killing Chances for a Nuke-Free World

The damage inflicted on the Soviet government's credibility on nuclear safety and security couldn't have come at a worse time.

Voters Bury Hungary’s Orban in a Landslide, Igniting Hopes in the EU and US

Orban and his Fidesz party campaigned on a stridently anti-Western platform, posting billboards disparaging Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and blaming Kyiv for Hungary's stagnant economy.

New Iran War Dynamic: Gulf Allies make deals with Ukraine as Trump Looks for Exit

As President Donald Trump searches for an exit from the war in Iran that he initiated, his abandonment of Ukraine to a grinding Russian invasion has shaken Gulf allies'...

Going it Alone: Trump’s Attack on Iran is Full of Bravado, Light on What Comes Next

The "Peace President" goes all in on decapitating Iran. But beyond that?

The Fifth Year of Putin’s Pointless War in Ukraine

What it will take to end the war in Ukraine remains evermore elusive a year after the intrusion of the Trump administration and its pivot from defending democracy to ingratiating himself, and the United States by default, with the instigator of the deadliest armed conflict since World War II.

Taunting Trump’s TACO: And NATO Leaders Learn a Lesson

He insulted the other 31 member nations of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as "weak" and "ungrateful" for all that he personally has done for them.

Trump Invades Venezuela: An Illegal Act in Oh So Many Ways…

While few tears were shed over Maduro's political demise, the United States' unlawful and unauthorized hostile action in Venezuela has signaled to other powerful countries ruled by authoritarians that there are no longer any guardrails confining the use of deadly force to attack, occupy and loot a sovereign state.

Trump’s New National Security Strategy: Europe’s Crap, NATO’s Weak, and we shouldn’t worry about China (as Russia Applauds)

If the sea change in U.S. foreign policy since President Donald Trump returned to the White House this year hadn't sufficiently shaken confidence in our national security, a new...

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