Conflicts imposed on Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan are intensifying rather than breaking out in peace. The assumption that they aren’t central to Australia’s interests is dead wrong.
Hours after Zelensky rebuffed Trump’s suggestion the US take ownership of his country’s power plants, the President announced he would ‘shortly’ sign a minerals pact with Kyiv.
Taking over the Zaporizhzhia power plant would involve quelling the fighting — and prying it away from Putin.
Kerry Packer said that you only get one Alan Bond in a lifetime. No doubt Vladimir Putin must have similar thoughts about Donald Trump.
Defence chiefs from the ‘coalition of the willing’ discuss how best to put boots on the ground in Ukraine if there is peace.
The fact that Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky are talking again after their Oval Office dust-up is something. As these fraught negotiations move forward, small wins are better than no wins.
During a one hour long call, Donald Trump said US ownership of Ukraine’s power plants would offer better protection as Volodymyr Zelensky agreed a partial ceasefire.
With Donald Trump’s new isolationism and China’s assertiveness in our backyard, we in Australia and New Zealand are on our own and must deepen our military integration.
Putin wants to make Ukraine a vassal state of Russia. He isn’t negotiating. He’s laughing at us. Trump should not ignore that friendly fire assessment.
Vladimir Putin is employing the classic Russian tactic of ‘talk and delay’ without providing any meaningful concessions. Yet he has only so much time to play with before Donald Trump loses patience.
The Kremlin is demanding major concessions even for a short-term ceasefire, much less for a broader peace deal – including cutting Ukraine out of the talks. These are terms Kyiv can’t accept, except at the end of a bludgeon.
Vladimir Putin agrees to halt attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure but says his ‘key condition’ for peace is that foreign military aid and intelligence to Ukraine must stop. However, Donald Trump claims ‘we didn’t talk about aid at all’.
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The Opposition Leader accused Anthony Albanese of abandoning mining in WA and vowed to usher in a boom through fast approvals and energy security. The PM, meanwhile, wouldn’t promise lower power prices if re-elected.
The ever-present threat of inflation rears its head again, more as a convenient explanation for the nation’s economic woes than as a credible phenomenon that requires serious thought.
A phone call to discuss ending the war in Ukraine will test the US President’s ‘great relationship’ with the Russian leader.
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will discuss ‘land, power plants and dividing up assets,’ when they speak by phone on Wednesday (AEDT).
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are expected to speak again this week as the White House seeks to revive ceasefire talks and secure a 30-day truce in Ukraine.
Russia will seek guarantees that NATO will exclude Ukraine from membership and that Ukraine will remain neutral in any peace deal, Russia’s deputy foreign minister has said.
As Putin’s battle-hardened units eye victory in Kursk, Kyiv’s few infantry units left on enemy soil are growing angry with America.
Peter Dutton has pledged a Coalition government would support reconstruction of the Adass Israel Synagogue of Melbourne, which was firebombed in an anti-Semitic arson attack in December.
The Ukraine war is about upholding the rule of international law.
Anthony Albanese, in signalling some ‘small’ involvement in a peacekeeping force in Ukraine, says Australia will always stand up to a ‘bully’ like Russian President Vladimir Putin.
A senior minister has lashed Vladimir Putin, calling the Russian President an “immoral monster” as Labor mulls deploying peacekeepers to Ukraine.
Ukraine’s audacious military gambit inside Russia is drawing towards a close much as it started last year: quickly.
Former Home Affairs department secretary Mike Pezzullo hits back at Anthony Albanese’s peacekeeping stand, saying Australia should focus on its own security in the Pacific rather than send soldiers to Ukraine to defend against future Russian aggression.
Anthony Albanese has joined a Coalition of the Willing virtual summit and repeated his offer to ‘consider’ Australia contributing to peacekeeping in Ukraine. Britain’s PM said military talks would be held on Thursday.
Most observers believe Vladimir Putin would contemplate a ceasefire deal that gives him 20 per cent of Ukraine and an assurance on NATO. They do not know Russia very well.
The Ukrainian president has demonstrated, again and again, the heroic, mythical qualities of the role. He presents as decent, brave, virile; secure in himself.
If Moscow walks away, Donald Trump will have to decide whether to impose new sanctions
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