As the Biden administration spells out often, the problems have all been compounded by Russia invading Ukraine, deepening food shortages, and raising prices everywhere.
Samantha Power won fame as a human rights advocate and was picked by President Biden to lead the agency that distributes billions of dollars in U.S. aid abroad, including providing more food assistance than anyone else in the world. But, that job includes a new task with a Cold War feel — countering Russia’s messaging abroad.
But unexpectedly, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov trailed her to Africa days later, visiting other capitals with a different message meant to shore up his country’s partnerships in Africa. “People, especially when they’re facing a crisis of this enormity, they really do know the difference about ... whether you’re providing emergency humanitarian assistance ... or whether you’re at a podium trying to make it a new Cold War,” Power said.
A former journalist, Power won a Pulitzer in 2003 for “A Problem From Hell,” a book on genocide that has fueled debates in government and among academics on the wisdom and morality of intervening in atrocities abroad ever since. She served as U.S. ambassador to the U.N. under President Obama before joining the Biden administration.
“The cascading political effects and the instability that stems from economic pain and people’s need, the human need, to hold authorities accountable for what is a terrifying inability to look out for the needs of your loved ones — that is a motivator if there ever is one” to protest, Power said.
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