There were quite a lot of what Donald Trump might describe as "bad things" taking place in Washington over the past week, to include the worsening of relations with China shortly after what appeared to be an agreement had been reached over tariff
New German Chancellor Fredreich Merz is in hot water over strong statements this week that Ukraine's war with Russia must continue and that Germany is lifting all restrictions on Ukraine using German weapons to strike deep inside Russia.
As President Trump wrestles to deliver on his campaign promise to end the war on Ukraine by helping to bring about a negotiated peace deal, the effort has, in part, been undermined by an escalating exchange of kamikaze drones by both sides.
"If Putin is not comfortable with a bilateral meeting, or if everyone wants it to be a trilateral meeting, I don't mind. I am ready for any format," Zelensky said Tuesday, in comments which were published Wednesday.
It didn't have to be this way. President Trump had the opportunity when first inaugurated to wash his hands of Biden's proxy war with Russia through Ukraine, but he could not resist intervening further. Now as things are not going as planned, he is r
Multiple rounds of peace talks and optimistic rhetoric have done nothing to end the war in the Eastern Bloc, where hostilities have significantly flared up over the last few days.
Massive drone attacks have been waged by both sides over the past 24 hours, with Ukrainian drones striking throughout all of western Russia in the latest drone attacks. Russia has now begin to use naval vessels of the Russian navy to escort the shado
Is World War 3 brewing over the Ukraine conflict, and if so, why would the powers involved allow that to happen, especially knowing that it could devolve into a nuclear exchange?
My dear friends, I think you are in very big trouble. Whether you believe it or not, YOU ARE AT WAR. And you may lose this war very soon together with all your affluence and freedoms unless you start defending yourselves.
–Yuri Bezmenov, 1984
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Perhaps Putin should tell the Russian people and the Russian Army that his interest in resolving the conflict in Ukraine with peace negotiations lies in the possibility that the negotiations could be used to achieve a Great Power Agreement like what
Update (1335ET): Confirming the optimistic readout from the Kremlin, President Trump just posted on TruthSocial stating that his call with Putin "went very well." (emphasis ours)
On May 4th, U.S. President Trump -- about whom I had headlined on 4 December 2024, "Reuters reports Trump is set to continue Biden's policies on Ukraine." -- told NBC News, that "Russia will have to give up all of Ukraine. Because that's
Update(1105ET): "We don't yet know the official level of Russians, but from what we see, it looks phony," Zelensky told reporters in Ankara. So despite the Ukrainian leader earlier declaring "I am here" upon landing in Turkey, he is not in fact at
Instead, Moscow will send a delegation of seasoned technocrats, including presidential adviser Vladimir Medinsky and Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin, to Istanbul on May 15.
Donald Trump says he and Vladimir Putin need to get together to solve the Ukraine war. Trump says he doesn't "believe anything's going to happen, whether you like it or not, until he and I get together."
Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin met for the 45th time since Xi came to power, as the Chinese leader attended Moscow's military parade marking the 80th anniversary of World War II victory. But this wasn't the diplomatic triumph Beijing had hoped for
On Sunday Ukrainian Dictator Vladimir Zelensky confirmed he will be meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Turkey on Thursday to hold direct peace talks after the Kremlin invited Zelensky to the negotiating table.