Foreign Digest: Yemen, Nicaragua and the Baltic States

Yemen: Yemen has asked for American and allied help versus the Houthis, the Iranian-backed Shi’ite rebels who control northern Yemen. The United States is leading an international coalition to protect international shipping through a crucial route in the Red Sea, as I have posted, against attacks by the Houthis. Nicaragua: A Nicaraguan Catholic Bishop and several Priests fled their Central American State and arrived in exile in America after suffering persecution by the Marxist Sandinista dictator, Daniel Ortega. Ortega has particularly targeted the Catholic Church, as part of his repression against religious and private civic organizations in Nicaragua. Baltic States: The Baltic States, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, announced they are jointly building additional defenses on their borders with Russia and Belarus. The former Soviet Republics fear a Russian invasion, such as against other Soviet Republics, like Georgia in 2008 and Ukraine in 2014, while Russian troops are in a breakaway Russian-speaking part of Moldova against its wishes. Russia’s tyrant, ex-Soviet intelligence officer Vladimir Putin, who wants to restore the Soviet Union, uses the presence of Russian speakers, as there are a large minority in the Baltic States from the period of the Russian Empire, as an excuse to conquer. Russian troops conducted a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, in part through the former Soviet Republic of Belarus, which is ruled by a pro-Kremlin dictator.