White House Zelensky attack ‘out of touch with reality’
It is staggering to see the United States, its President and other officials behaving in a way that’s completely out of touch with reality.
It is staggering to see the United States, its President and other officials behaving in a way that’s completely out of touch with reality.
Kyiv, its leader Volodymyr Zelensky and the free world, of which Donald Trump is supposed to be the leader, deserve better than the US President’s parroting untruths from Moscow’s playbook.
The strategic weight of the word of the president of the United States was once a powerful and positive factor in the strategic environment. Trump is trashing the credibility of his own words. And he’s insulting people who have given their lives for freedom.
It’s possible Donald Trump is lulling Vladimir Putin while setting him up for a great fall. Maybe Trump has thought a dozen moves ahead and has Putin right where he wants him.
Donald Trump has accused Volodymyr Zelensky of being a ‘dictator’ and abusing billions in US support but reminded the Ukraine president he wasn’t working with the Biden administration any more.
The Russian marauder has become an ostensible peacemaker in a month despite waging the biggest land war in Europe since Hitler.
Donald Trump has signalled his preference to potentially remove Volodymyr Zelensky from power entirely so he can strike a deal to carve up Ukraine with Putin in the absence of objections.
If the chancellor and western allies are to keep Ukraine safe, decades of submissiveness have to go.
After talks between US and Russian envoys, Donald Trump said he was ‘more confident’ of a peace deal but backed demands for an election, increasing fears a Kremlin friendly leader would be installed.
The Putin loyalist and Harvard-educated merchant banker with a history of deal making can speak the language the Trump administration will understand.
Donald Trump says he’s the man to negotiate a deal that will end the carnage in Ukraine. If he does and Putin resumes his aggression it will be a huge stain on his legacy. And rightly so.
At an emergency security summit in Paris, Keir Starmer said any future peacekeeping support in Ukraine must have US backing or Vladimir Putin could attack again.
We should always distrust historical parallels. Yet Trump’s overture to Putin sounds like a terrifying echo of the betrayal of Czechoslovakia in 1938.
With Ukraine unlikely to be the limit of Putin’s expansionist ambitions, Trump has good reason to demand more of Europe.
Australia’s ambassador to Russia has made a bold move, leaving no one in any doubt his thoughts about Vladimir Putin and a very touchy subject.
Donald Trump tells reporters a meeting with Putin could be imminent; Russian and US officials are set to meet in Saudi Arabia to discuss the Ukraine war in a sign the US is eager for an agreement.
The meeting in Paris convened by French President Emmanuel Macron comes as the continent faces its biggest security challenge in generations.
If Russia is recognised or rewarded for a neo-colonial land grab and the brutal subjugation of a nation, a green light is also given to others who might seek to assert their hegemony on a region or a neighbour.
Ukraine has been thrown under the proverbial bus and the US will not honour its NATO commitments. Beware Europe, Vladimir Putin can do as he pleases now.
By sidelining Ukraine, and conceding Ukrainian territory even before talks start, Trump has delivered a huge pay-off for Putin’s recent lavish praise.
Donald Trump’s administration has sent a decisive message that will shake the world. Signs of a peace deal in Ukraine are emerging along with evidence that the President will scale back the US global alliance system and leave Europe to deter Vladimir Putin.
The US will hit Moscow with sanctions and potentially military action if Vladimir Putin doesn’t agree to a peace deal with Ukraine that guarantees Kyiv’s long-term independence, Vice-President JD Vance has warned.
The US continues to bang the tariff drum but markets are betting a full-scale trade war will be averted, as European stocks soar on growing hopes the Russia-Ukraine war will soon end.
The Russian leader is less interested in squabbling over territory than showing the US and NATO who is the boss.
Real estate developer Steve Witkoff engineered the release of American teacher Marc Fogel from a Russian prison this week – and opened the door to negotiations about Ukraine.
Zelensky must convince Trump not to accept conditions being pushed by Moscow; the US president says further aid to Ukraine would be conditional on exclusive access to its resources.
President Donald Trump’s talks with Vladimir Putin could result in a deal to halt the conflict. Here’s an examination of how that agreement might shape up.
If Ukraine is forcibly partitioned, the outcome will be, at best, a Cold War 2.0 with Putin emboldened and China encouraged to risk its own military adventures.
Volodymyr Zelensky emphasised that Ukraine would not accept any bilateral peace talks in which Kyiv did not participate.
Donald Trump would be unwise to ignore the grave threat to European security that could potentially follow any peace deal that effectively hands Vladimir Putin victory in his brutal Ukrainian gambit.
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