Truth Matters
The United States has long had the policy of guaranteeing that the western hemisphere remains free of foreign influence. Cuba was in one sense an exception to that, but even the communist revolution in that country was fought by Cubans (with guns supplied by Russia). Last week, however, Russia overtly challenged the Monroe Doctrine (which prohibits the Old World from intervening in the Western Hemisphere..
The Wagner Group is a division of ex-army mercenaries paid for by an oligarch close to Putin. That division has been used in the past in both Syria and the Ukraine. Putin calls it in ...