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.

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...

Trump Tries Again: Selling out Ukraine

Two U.S. senators at a security conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia, told journalists that Rubio had said the controversial proposal "was not the (U.S.) administration's plan," that it was the "wish list of the Russians."

So Now We’re going to War with South America?

Trump has been intervening unilaterally to aid his favored South American neighbors and signaled that he would skip the gathering aimed at resolving common economic and security challenges.

What–Really–Does Vladimir Putin Want?

He wants Ukraine to cease to exist as a sovereign and independent country and to return to being a vassal of the Kremlin.

Running on Fumes: Ukrainian Attacks on Russian Oil Production Shift the War

“The Russian war machine will only stop when it runs out of fuel,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told a gathering of Western security officials in Kyiv last month. Zelensky was...

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