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.
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'...
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.
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.
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.
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...