May 16, 2024 · What unsettled Putin was the ever-closer military and security cooperation between Ukraine and individual NATO members, especially the United States, which included more frequent and complex joint ...

Apr 3, 2024 · The National Guard is a special part of the U.S. military that answers to both state governors and the president. While it began as a “strategic reserve,” the guard has come to play an ...

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Apr 25, 2023 · Then came the COVID-19 pandemic. Cuba’s 2020 border closure decimated tourism and contributed to the second-largest economic contraction in Latin America that year, after Venezuela’s.

Jan 17, 2025 · Over the past five years, the USMCA has helped the United States reduce its supply chain dependence on China. In 2023, Canada and Mexico displaced China as the United States’ top import partners ...

Jul 31, 2024 · Introduction. Venezuela, home to the world’s largest oil reserves, is a case study in the perils of becoming a petrostate. Since it was discovered in the country in the 1920s, oil has taken ...

Feb 19, 2025 · Asylum has become a central part of the U.S. immigration debate in recent years after border crossings reached a record high in fiscal year 2023. Here’s how the asylum process works.

Mar 20, 2024 · Introduction. China and Russia have a long, complicated history together, marked by periods of both cooperation and fierce strategic rivalry. The neighbors have strengthened ties over the past ...

Nov 9, 2022 · The last Russian nuclear test occurred under the Soviet Union on October 24, 1990; and, apart from North Korea, no state has conducted a nuclear test since 1998.Russia could conduct a nuclear ...

Apr 3, 2024 · April 7 marks thirty years since the Rwandan genocide, in which a radical faction from the majority Hutu ethnic group launched a campaign to eradicate the ethnic Tutsi minority and other opponents ...