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Ukraine War Presages Russia’s Inevitable Collapse – Boris Yeltsin, Russia’s first post-Soviet president, rose to prominence after a 1987 speech he delivered at the...
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Ukraine War Presages Russia’s Inevitable Collapse – Boris Yeltsin, Russia’s first post-Soviet president, rose to prominence after a 1987 speech he delivered at the...
Azerbaijan has long enjoyed a reputation in some American policy sectors as a secular outpost willing to stand up both to Iran and Russia....
Russia has reportedly massed up to 150,000 troops along its border with Ukraine, and it threatens to continue territorial conquest against its more democratic...
Across Africa, there has been a broad erosion of democracy. Over the last year, there have been successful coups in Burkina Faso, Sudan, Mali,...
An informal agreement governs Iraqi politics: a Shi’ite Arab holds the premiership, a Sunni Arab becomes speaker of the parliament, and a Kurd serves...
What should Joe Biden do when it comes to a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine? As Russian forces massed on Ukraine’s border, National Security...
For a half-century, Iraq has been among the world’s most difficult places to be a journalist. Saddam Hussein tolerated no independent journalism; to be...
A gunman identified as Muhammad Siddiqui today entered a Colleyville, Texas synagogue and is holding the rabbi and an unknown number of congregants hostage....
On Monday, January 10, President Joe Biden spoke with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed about the ongoing conflict in Ethiopia. The readout of their...
![U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Ambassador Samantha Power, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, participate in the High-Level Ministerial on Libya at the United Nations in New York City on October 2, 2015. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]](https://www.19fortyfive.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/USAID-600x337.jpg)
![U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Ambassador Samantha Power, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, participate in the High-Level Ministerial on Libya at the United Nations in New York City on October 2, 2015. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]](https://www.19fortyfive.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/USAID-100x100.jpg)
HARGEISA, SOMALILAND—Two months ago, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) administrator Samantha Power jetted off to the UN climate summit in Glasgow to speak...