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HANGZHOU, CHINA - SEPT. 4. 2016 - Chinese president Xi Jinping (R) welcomes Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) in G20 summit in Hangzhou.

China and Russia: Quietly Going Steady?

China and Russia have conducted more than 100 joint military exercises, most of them since 2017, and many of them in distant locations such as the Mediterranean, the Arctic Circle, and off the South African coast.

Sometimes there’s so much going on around us that we fail to sense the ground shifting beneath our feet.

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The Real Reason Putin Targets Schools?

Since Putin launched his full-scale invasion in February 2022, Russian forces have destroyed one of every seven schools in Ukraine.

Ukraine’s education system has been especially hard hit by Russian forces. According to Ukraine’s Deputy Minister of Education, they have struck more than 3,500 educational facilities, destroying 1 out of every 7 schools through the first 2 ½ years of fighting. According to UNICEF, these attacks have left more than 5 million Ukrainian children with only restricted access to traditional schooling and nearly 1.9 million largely dependent on remote learning.

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President Kennedy greeting Peace Corps Volunteers

Where Have All the Peace Corps Volunteers Gone?

Only one sitting member of Congress has served with the Peace Corps.

I often trace the beginnings of my foreign policy and international development work back to the village school in Kenya where my wife Sue and I served as WorldTeach volunteers. That work presented many challenges, but the village was also ahead of many others in the area because a Peace Corps volunteer served there before us. I often point to my time as US ambassador to Tanzania as the high point of my career in foreign policy. When I entered the State House to present my credentials to President Jakaya Kikwete in 2007, a Tanzanian protocol officer proudly took me aside and related how he had once been taught by a Peace Corps volunteer.

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October 7 and the "Wider War"

Those captured or killed by Hamas militants on October 7, 2023, included nationals of 25 different countries. The invaders used bullets and bombs, drones and missiles, and other instruments of war that came from, or contained parts from, Iran, Russia, China, North Korea, and elsewhere.

While Hamas led the horrific October 7 terrorist attack on civilian targets in Israel that killed nearly 1,200 people and wounded thousands of others, at least 5 other designated terrorist organizations took part.

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Author

Ambassador Mark A. Green

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