Shaken U.S. Reputation: Flogging Allies and Planetary Scandals

In recent days, the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine has been posting terse Facebook updates about deportations and lifetime bans on entry for “violating U.S. law.” In the context of the horror of a full-scale war, this sounds like the crack of a whip, heralding a severe punitive instruction for Ukrainians who, for the fourth year (and many for the twelfth), have been living in overwhelming stress...