Ukraine

  After United States President Donald Trump’s bilateral meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska, a summit was held in Washington, D.C., with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and the leaders of major European countries, NATO and the European Commission. The staging of these meetings was already significant. Alaska, once Russian territory, sits where the U.S. meets geographically with […]

  Over three years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, discussions on a European war economy to counter Russian expansionism have not yet materialized into accepted policy. Washington’s recent shift on Ukraine, NATO and America’s role as a global policeman has made the need for decisive action even more urgent, prompting new, bolder defense measures […]

It appears that a ceasefire in the Russia-Ukraine war is drawing near. The most likely demarcation line will hew closely to the current front. Genuine peace talks remain distant – the two sides are far apart. Kyiv still clings to the goal of restoring the country’s pre-2014 borders, while Moscow wants formal control of Crimea and the entire Donetsk, […]

  United States President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance clashed openly with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in the Oval Office last week. Mr. Zelenskiy insisted that Russia would not honor any agreement – an obvious point – in a bid to secure concrete security commitments from Washington. President Trump lost patience, the exchange grew heated […]

In a striking speech this February at the 61st Munich Security Conference, United States Vice President J.D. Vance held a mirror to European elites. Rather than focus on the Russia-Ukraine conflict, he highlighted Europe’s democratic value deficits, which leave the continent vulnerable. The vice president asserted that European citizens are often silenced when they express non-conformist views. […]