Russia has gone through eight years of continuing economic pain.
I think the IMF helped to detonate the Indonesian crisis.
The longer you wait, the less fun. If you wait until the bitter end, the whole economy can be destroyed.
The idea that UN commitments should be followed by action is indeed a radical one, especially for the United States, where wilful neglect of its own commitments is the rule.
The essence of Africa's crises is fundamentally it's extreme poverty.
The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation. Their war aims were not only to defeat fascism, but to create a world of shared prosperity.