TONY LEON: Babbling while Ukraine burns
SA’s policy on Russia in the wake of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine is, like defence minister Thandi Modise, missing in action
18 August 2022 - 18:10
For the least populated area in America, the Mountain West state of Wyoming has received outsize attention across the world in recent days. That’s because it was the site of the landslide defeat in a primary election of US congresswoman Liz Cheney, a three-term US Representative.
Cheney is the daughter of a Republican dynasty headed by her father Dick Cheney, whose lead role as US vice-president to George W Bush added dark meaning to terms such as “enhanced interrogation” (authorised torture) and “enduring freedom” (forcible regime change)...
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