Cuba has historically leveraged its healthcare sector to promote the Cuban Communist Party’s image, offer low-income countries an alternative source of assistance, and counteract pressure on foreign actors to condemn Cuba’s autocracy,… Read more »
China cannot endorse Russia’s invasion of Ukraine because the maintenance of territorial integrity is “primordial” in Beijing’s foreign policy, but nor can it align itself with a NATO that it… Read more »
Ukraine is fighting not just for its own existence but for European values, human rights and democracy, Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky, said in an address to the US. Congress today…. Read more »
Ukraine’s remarkable resilience will be highlighted when President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addresses members of the U.S. Congress on Wednesday amid Russia’s ongoing war against his country, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate… Read more »
Living conditions in Cuba systematically deteriorated over the past decades. Many troubles could be avoided in the future if better political and economic institutions were established on the island, the… Read more »
It is no accident that Americans are united in their support for Ukraine, according to historian Anne Applebaum (right). A large, bipartisan majority, for example, back the U.S. decision to… Read more »
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on March 3, the West will “get over” its “hysteria” about Ukraine. I am afraid he might be right. And I am afraid of… Read more »
A military revolt against Putin is more possible now than it was before the invasion of Ukraine, but the odds against it remain long. Wars like Putin’s can breed resentment… Read more »
The use of sanctions has risen sharply in recent years, according to the Global Sanctions Database, a project from Drexel University that has become the most comprehensive tally of its… Read more »
When Vladimir Putin dreamed of restoring the glory of the Russian empire by invading Ukraine, he was also restoring the terror of Josef Stalin. That is not only because he… Read more »