The only democratic process for a constitution that could produce total legitimacy is to have a proper referendum in which every citizen should participate and have their voice heard.

The goal of both Russia and the West is likely to be a stalemate between calculated or limited escalation and all-out war.

Brazil's new leader is playing the ambiguity game, but knows he owes his political survival to Iran, Turkey’s Erdogan and Venezuela's Maduro.

"Israel’s economy is getting stronger; we will outpace the US, and we have already outpaced Europe,” Netanyahu says at cabinet meeting, adding that Israel "cannot safeguard Zionism by fencing it in or by restricting citizens’ movements.”