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Framework for Peace for Ukraine Unlikely To Be Reached March 10, 2025

If the US and Russia want a deal on Ukraine, Zelensky will need to cooperate. That is far from certain. The result could be that President Trump will not be able to negotiate a Ukraine settlement with Russia and the Ukraine war will continue. ...

Ukraine

Dealmaker, Peacemaker, President March 09, 2025

“What the f— are we doing here?” asked President Trump in the summer of 2017.Nearly a year into his first term, Trump’s national security adviser had just proposed sending an additional 3,000 to 5,000 troops to Afghanistan, prompting his boss’s frust...

Ukraine Is Never Joining NATO March 08, 2025

Someone needs to explain the meaning of “no” to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. He wants NATO to induct his nation and seems to on a mission to get it. ...

Trump Is Europe's Best Chance for Peace March 06, 2025

European elites are caught in a dangerous cycle of self-fulfilling prophecy. They claim U.S. President Donald Trump is abandoning NATO and Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression....

NATO

A New World of Nation States March 06, 2025

People rushed to take sides in the row between U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. For many in Europe, it allegedly proved that Trump is some sort of cross between a Hitler clone and a Putin puppet. For others, esp...

foreign policy

Before Trump, No One Had a Plan for the Ukraine War March 05, 2025

In the aftermath of the rather acrimonious meeting in the White House on Friday between President Zelensky of Ukraine and the president and vice president of the United States, it is easy to lose sight of the progress that has been made in the strate...

Ukraine

Trump Breaks News on Zelensky, Canada Responds to Tariffs March 05, 2025

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canada

How the War Party Lost March 05, 2025

The Feb. 28 Oval Office brawl between Volodymyr Zelensky, Donald Trump, and JD Vance offered a stark reminder that, all too often, wars do not end when rational calculation would dictate an end, but rather when all those who want to fight to the deat...

Democrats

What Zelensky Can Learn From Bibi March 05, 2025

On February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. In keeping with established Russian military doctrine, its invasion plans called for the immediate decapitation of the Ukrainian government, including the capture and execution of its President, Volodymyr...

Ukraine

Israel

Zelensky on Gilligan’s Island March 04, 2025

In the 1960’s television series Gilligan’s Island, Gilligan was always telling rivals they were both right. The joke was the impossibility of that outcome. By contrast, in the Trump-Zelenskyy showdown, both are right. And wrong.As often is true with ...

Ukraine

Russia

Trump administration

A National Security Disaster in the Oval Office March 04, 2025

ANYONE WHO EXPECTED DONALD TRUMP’S foreign policy in his second term to look essentially like his foreign policy in his first term must have been shocked over the past few days....

Russia

Ukraine

A Silver Lining Playbook for Europe March 04, 2025

The Trump-Zelensky Oval Office meeting laid bare what “the end of the post-Berlin Wall era” really means—now, the EU needs to change with the times...

European Union

Trump’s Reverse-Nixon Maneuver March 04, 2025

As the world reels from the scenes of the televised boxing match between Zelensky and Trump, with Vance egging the fight on, we are in danger of losing sight of what the encounter reveals about Trump’s priorities....

Donald Trump

I Would Like To Reiterate Ukraine's Commitment to Peace March 04, 2025

None of us wants an endless war. Ukraine is ready to come to the negotiating table as soon as possible to bring lasting peace closer. Nobody wants peace more than Ukrainians. My team and I stand ready to work under President Trump’s strong leadership...

Ukraine

Russia

Zelensky Says Ukraine Ready to Sign Minerals Deal With U.S. March 03, 2025

Russia

Putin the Real Winner of Trump-Zelensky Blowup March 03, 2025

By claiming Zelensky is ‘not ready for peace’, Trump can walk away from top campaign promise without accepting defeat ...

Russia

Ukraine

Ukraine Has Become a Casualty of America’s Culture War March 03, 2025

It was less a diplomatic summit than a televised takedown. ‘Great television’, Donald Trump grinned at the end. Volodymyr Zelensky, who had come to the White House seeking American backing for a minerals deal and tolerable terms of peace, didn’t just...

Ukraine

Zelensky Just Gave a Masterclass on How To Lose a Negotiation March 03, 2025

Everyone knew yesterday’s meeting between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was going to be high-stakes, with Kyiv’s survival hanging in the balance. What nobody expected was the diplomatic disaster for Ukraine that un...

Ukraine

Europe’s Moment of Truth March 03, 2025

The disastrous meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance at the White House on February 28 has led to a stark moment of truth for the Western alliance. ...

Europe

The ‘Goodies and Baddies’ Era of World Politics Is Over March 03, 2025

It’s hard to overstate just how shocking, how grotesque and shaming, was President Trump’s outburst against Ukraine’s President Zelensky in the Oval Office. Pop went the last soap-bubble of hope any of us had that US diplomatic policy for the next fo...

foreign policy

Zelensky Does Not Grasp the Bitter Truth March 03, 2025

Those with whom he feels most affinity (Western globalists, the American Left, the Europeans) have little power in 2025 to help him. And those with whom he obviously does not like or seeks to embarrass (cf. his Scranton, Penn. campaign-like visit in ...

Play Your Cards Right March 03, 2025

Washington isn’t Las Vegas, but Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky came to the nation’s capital last week to throw the dice, to gamble that he could win unlimited funds, weapons, and, yes, even American troops. He played and lost. Zelensky woul...

Europe Defends Zelensky After Trump Attack March 01, 2025

France, Germany and Poland all make prompt declarations of support as Europe fears Trump’s alignment with Putin. ...

Ukraine

‘Living in a Bubble’: How Zelensky Miscalculated Trump March 01, 2025

For three years in the United States, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was heralded as the second coming of Winston Churchill. He earned standing ovations from Congress, posed for glossy photo shoots, and received regular envoys of politicians,...

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Ukraine

The Real Reason Trump Berated Zelensky March 01, 2025

Of the many bizarre and uncomfortable moments during today’s Oval Office meeting between Donald Trump, J. D. Vance, and Volodymyr Zelensky—during which Trump finally shattered the American alliance with Ukraine—one was particularly revealing: What, a...

Ukraine