BY MICHAEL S. JOHNSON
“At every step, Russia has come before this council to say everything but the truth. It has manipulated, obfuscated, and outright lied.”
US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Powers speaking in an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council August 28, 2014
Ambassador Powers seems to represent the United States with great competence and a forceful presence, but her statement last week and those of President Barack Obama on the Russian invasion (why not call it what it is?) of Ukraine raise another question: What is the United States going to do about it? Continue reading