Rare positive news has come out of the Ukraine war on Tuesday, the last day of 2024. Russia and Ukraine have exchanged hundreds of prisoners in a deal brokered the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Drawing on Dr. Kubler-Ross' five stages of grief, the West is slowly coming to grips with the reality that Ukraine is a lost cause and moving through the five-stage grief cycle.
International media sources are calling it one of the most consequential foreign visits to Damascus since the fall of Assad: a Ukrainian delegation led by Zelensky's foreign minister Andrii Sybiha met with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham in Damascus on Monday.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Sunday that Moscow was "not satisfied" with reported proposals being discussed by President-elect Donald Trump and his transition team to end the war in Ukraine.
President Joe Biden on Christmas Day said he has directed the Pentagon to continue its "surge of weapons deliveries to Ukraine," following a wave of Russian air attacks on Ukrainian cities and energy infrastructure early Christmas morning.
Upon his inauguration as president, Donald Trump will become the leader of a United States executive branch mired in two major wars via its continuing pumping of money, weapons, and intelligence into support of the Ukraine and Israel governments.
"A fox knows many things, but a hedgehog knows one big thing." Scott Horton is the liberty movement's foreign policy hedgehog, endeavoring to convince the American public of one essential truth: the folly of war.
Triumphant rhetoric in the corridors of Washington, DC celebrating the collapse of the Syrian government as a major victory over Russia is both foolish and short-sighted. I will explain.
Russia on Wednesday blasted the US disbursing a $20 billion loan to Ukraine backed by frozen Russian assets as "theft" and "simply robbery" while vowing that retaliation will soon come.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky praised once and future President Trump for his determination to end Russia's invasion, paying the compliments while also reiterating his calls for the world to unify behind Kyiv to defeat Moscow.
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The centuries-old Paris landmark Notre-Dame Cathedral reopens today, five-and-a-half years after a devastating fire destroyed its spire and roof and brought the entire Gothic masterpiece within minutes of collapsing.
The Canadian government announced on Thursday that it was prohibiting its citizens from owning another 324 types of firearms and is working to send them to Ukraine.
Joe Biden's pardon of his son Hunter is the most sweeping Presidential pardon since Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon. It represents the deep corruption and contempt for the rule of law that has characterized the Biden presidency.
For the first time since the war began Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenzkyy announced that he would be willing to cede territory to Russia in order to end the Russia-Ukrainian/NATO war.
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