Epstein Secrets

lations proved wildly misplaced. Opposi- tion parties swept to victory in country after coun- try—in Uruguay, Argentina, Nicaragua, South Korea, the Philippines, Poland. The word "stunning" made a frequent appearance in news accounts, as in the stunning rejection of the ruling party in Poland, or the stunn

ine also zeroed in on Ukraine's sup- posed lack of respect for minority rights, a problem that Moscow had not raised during the administra- tions of Viktor Yanukovych or Leonid Kuchma. Neither Ukrainians nor informed observers in the outside world believed that Ukraine was faced with a civil war. This was entire

n he replaced his colonel's spurs with a subtle understanding of what diplomacy entailed. During his two terms, Roosevelt wound down the war in the Philippines that he had helped start in 1898, thwarted European designs upon Latin America, and mediated the Algeciras Crisis and the Russo-Japanese War, for

ed by Moscow to listen to its diktats. That path is now blocked. Princeton professor Stephen Kotkin points out that in the last elections, in 2010, Viktor Yanukovych, representing to some extent the pro- Russian forces, won Crimea by nearly a million votes, which is why he won the election overall. In other words

n the city-state of Singapore. Since 2011, former wartime opponent Vietnam has allowed the US Navy to use the port of Cam Ranh Bay. Meanwhile, the Philippines are likely to become America's most important partner in a separate, but similar, conflict over disputed islands in the South China Sea. Some 40 pe

tens of thousands rallied in Kiev's central square for weeks to protest a flawed election. Protests have been held daily since Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych backed away last week from an agreement that would have established free trade and deepened political cooperation between Ukraine and the EU in fa

n Aaser Chairman of the Board Telenor ASA Norway Florencio Abad Secretary of Budget and Management, Department of Budget and Management of the Philippines Mhammed Abbad Founder Al Jisr Morocco Andaloussi Faisal J. Abbas Editor-in-Chief Al Arabiya News Channel, English Service United Arab Emira

vskiy Founder and Managing Partner First Nation Societe Bancaire Russian Federation Kerfalla Yansane Minister of Economy and Finance of Guinea Viktor Yanukovych President of Ukraine Daniel Orson Ybarra Artist Atelier Ybarra Uruguay George Yeo Visiting Scholar Lee Kuan Yew School of Singapore Public P

tries, the United States enjoyed an approval rating of more than 60 percent (a diverse crowd including Brazil, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Philippines, Poland, South Africa and, yes, even France). No doubt this is due in part to Obama's widely celebrated election. But only in part, for Obama's per

en it put 150,000 troops on high alert on Wednesday for war games near Ukraine's border and then on Friday allowed the deposed Ukrainian president, Viktor Yanukovych, to give a news conference when he showed up in the Russian city Rostov-on-Don. The situation has now gone from chaos to the verge of military con