On Mexico, the US and Russian soldiers – Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Eileen Sullivan in NYT:

‘To relieve pressure on American cities, the Biden administration is hopeful that Mexico will step up enforcement near the country’s southern border with Guatemala to slow the pace of migrants approaching the U.S. border.
Mexican officials said 6,000 people were crossing its southern border every day. U.S. and Mexican officials are developing a new migration processing center in southern Mexico where migrants can apply for refugee status in the United States rather that journey to the border.
The Biden administration is increasingly relying on Mexico and other Central American nations to deter migrants as what was once a humanitarian crisis of overcrowding in border communities stretches to cities throughout the United States.

But Mr. López Obrador has often criticized the emphasis on slowing the flow of migration over addressing the violence and corruption forcing people to flee their homes as the primary solution to driving down illegal migration. Last month, Mr. López Obrador has called for foreign ministers of 10 Latin American countries to come together and develop a joint aid plan aimed at addressing immigration.
As Mr. Lopez Obrador has pressured Mr. Biden to invest more to address the root causes of migration in the Western Hemisphere, he has also criticized the White House support of Ukraine as irrational. Mr. Lopez Obrador raised eyebrows in Washington last month when he invited a contingent of Russian soldiers to march in a military parade in Mexico City, a move that Matt Miller, a U.S. State Department spokesman, described as an “odd decision.”

Mexico has also been pressing the Biden administration to do more to stop the smuggling of firearms and other weapons from the United States to Mexico. In particular, Mr. López Obrador’s administration wants Washington to go after American gun manufacturers and distributors.’

Read the article here.

As was reported, also by NYT, people cross borders also because the demand for work at the other side of the border is immense.

The unwillingness to take better care of migrants is one of the more pressing shortcomings nowadays of the civilized world, so-called civilized world but let’s not be too cynical, the EU, the US, Canada et cetera.

Russian soldiers marching in Mexico City is a bit odd indeed.

One of the many signs that the West got tired of the war. The new weapons have been tested, the industry got a nice boost, let’s move on to the next battlefield, the war in Ukraine will peter out in a decade or so.