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.
"It is hard to think of a more effective way for the USA to help Russia both offensively and defensively in one move," writes Phillips O'Brien, an American historian and professor of strategic studies at Scotland's University of St. Andrews.
Last week's General Assembly was historically notable for its failure to make progress toward resolving any of the world's wars, trade disputes, climate protection retreats, threats of territorial seizures or deteriorating adherence to human rights or democracy.
Amid Trump's disparagement of NATO and European allies, intelligence officials have become concerned that Putin might attack a U.S. defense ally to test whether Trump would provide defensive assistance.
Most of the Lincoln's 2003 cohort were circumspect in their complaints about the boomeranged deployment. But disappointment was obvious and understandable.
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.
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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.
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.
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'...