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In such a scenario Ukraine’s most immediate crisis would be the lack of U.S.

Last month, the US embassy in Bamako announced that non-essential diplomatic staff and their families would leave Mali amid the crisis.

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He writes that a crisis is waiting to happen, predicting that private credit could “unravel faster than anyone can track.”

With a sudden end to foreign exchange earnings, Venezuelan GDP went into the kind of free fall you rarely see outside war, setting off a humanitarian crisis that brought millions to the brink of starvation.

Mr. Woodard offers some provocative thoughts on how the crisis might be averted “before it brings down the republic and shatters our federation.”

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