Russian influence strengthened: Is our neutrality sustainable?

South Korea’s Winter Olympics has focused attention on that country’s dysfunctional relationship with its northern neighbour and America’s role in that conflict.

South Korea’s Winter Olympics has focussed attention on that country’s dysfunctional relationship with its northern neighbour and America’s role in that conflict.

It is one of the issues of the day, but maybe it has, dangerously, distracted the world from an issue almost as pressing — Russia’s imperial ambitions and its ever-more confident pursuit of them.