Trump speaks with Putin amid global flareups
President Donald Trump spoke for an hour Saturday morning with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Trump announced, amid increasingly volatile situations in the Middle East — and Putin’s war in Ukraine....
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Trump’s political offensive on European allies will have long-lasting...
Ivo Daalder, former U.S. ambassador to NATO, is CEO of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and host of the weekly podcast “World Review with Ivo Daalder.” He writes POLITICO’s From Across the Pond...
View ArticleTrump: ‘There would be no war’ if Russia were in G8
KANANASKIS, Alberta — “The G7 used to be the G8,” Donald Trump mused after a bilateral meeting with host Prime Minister Mark Carney at the G7 summit in the Canadian Rockies. Standing next to a mute...
View ArticleMacron says he’s still confident US will back further Russia sanctions
KANANASKIS, Alberta — French President Emmanuel Macron said he still believes Washington could back stronger sanctions against Russia, despite Donald Trump earlier suggesting otherwise. Speaking to...
View ArticleTrump envoy set to meet Lukashenko in Belarus
U.S. President Donald Trump’s Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg is planning to travel to Belarus in the coming days to meet President Alexander Lukashenko, according to two people familiar with the matter....
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Putin’s abduction of Ukrainian children
Maksimas Milta is Ukraine country director at The Reckoning Project. Fredrik Wesslau is a distinguished policy fellow at the Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies and former chair of the board...
View ArticleTrump scoffs at Putin’s offer to mediate in Israel-Iran war
U.S. President Donald Trump doesn’t want Russian leader Vladimir Putin to mediate in the Israel-Iran conflict before he ends the Kremlin’s war on Ukraine. Moscow has repeatedly offered to negotiate an...
View ArticleWhat’s really behind Europe’s 5% defense push
Listen on Spotify Apple Music Amazon Music As NATO leaders prepare to endorse a dramatic defense spending hike, Europe faces a reckoning: Where will the money come from — and will new tanks mean cuts...
View ArticlePutin warns his officials not to allow recession
Russian President Vladimir Putin cautioned his officials to make sure their efforts to cool down an economy driven to overheating by military spending don’t overshoot and drive it into recession....
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How Europe would fill an America-shaped hole in NATO
The first time Donald Trump was president he almost quit NATO; now that he’s back in office he’s more unpredictable than ever. Allies meeting in The Hague this week are already worried the U.S....
View ArticleIran’s foreign minister heading to Russia to meet with Putin after US strikes
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Sunday announced he will travel to Moscow in the coming hours for urgent talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, shortly after the United States launched...
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Europe needs action — and fewer high-stakes summits with Donald Trump
Dalibor Rohac is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. As the transatlantic alliance braces for this week’s NATO summit in the Hague, its defenders are caught...
View ArticleRussia hits Kyiv with huge attack while condemning US strikes on Iran
KYIV — Moscow launched another massive attack against Ukraine overnight, targeting primarily the capital’s residential districts, even as the Kremlin condemned American military strikes on Iran over...
View ArticleGermany backs major NATO defense spending boost — but not to please Trump
Germany will dramatically increase defense spending — not to appease U.S. President Donald Trump but to counter the threat from Moscow, Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Tuesday. “We will decide to...
View ArticleTrump casts doubt on Article 5 commitment en route to NATO summit
On his way to a summit of NATO leaders, U.S. President Donald Trump undermined the alliance’s core collective defense promise — injecting tension into a gathering designed to keep him interested in...
View ArticleRussia kills 17, injures scores in one of its deadliest attacks on Ukraine
KYIV — Russia hit Ukraine’s key industrial city of Dnipro with ballistic missiles on Tuesday, causing massive destruction that killed 17 people and injured more than 270, local authorities reported....
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UK uses Russian assets to boost Ukraine’s air defense
THE HAGUE — The U.K. promised to boost Ukraine’s air defense with hundreds of missiles as Keir Starmer strives to fly the flag for Kyiv at this week’s NATO summit. The new package of 350 ASRAAM air...
View ArticleTrump plans to tout Iran strikes at NATO summit focused on European defense...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The singular narrative of this NATO summit is European allies investing more in their own defense. But Donald Trump isn’t interested in following anyone else’s script. At his...
View ArticleFrontline NATO countries put on brave face as Trump casts doubt on collective...
THE HAGUE — NATO leaders insisted that Donald Trump is fully committed to the alliance’s mutual defense clause ahead of Wednesday’s summit that is largely designed to keep the U.S. president...
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NATO clinches defense spending deal in big win for Trump
THE HAGUE — NATO allies on Wednesday agreed to unleash an avalanche of new defense spending in a show of unity aimed at keeping U.S. President Donald Trump on board and Russian leader Vladimir Putin...
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How Trump learned to stop worrying and love NATO
THE HAGUE — NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte cracked the code for a successful leaders’ summit involving President Donald Trump: Call him “daddy.” Add to that a significantly slimmed-down schedule...
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NATO survives another day
Ivo Daalder, former U.S. ambassador to NATO, is CEO of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and host of the weekly podcast “World Review with Ivo Daalder.” He writes POLITICO’s From Across the Pond...
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Greenland is the wild card in Denmark’s Brussels reign
Greenland is the wild card in Denmark’s Brussels reign Donald Trump’s claims on the island nation could derail Copenhagen’s EU Council presidency at any time. By JACOPO BARIGAZZI Photo-Illustration...
View ArticleRussia hits Ukraine with biggest attack of the war; F-16 pilot is killed
KYIV — Russia hit Ukraine with 537 drones and missiles overnight Sunday in Moscow’s largest attack of the war, the Ukrainian Air Force said. Ukraine shot down 475 of missiles and drones, the air force...
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Putin is invading more than Ukraine
Mark Gitenstein (ret, 2009-2012), Adrian Zuckerman (ret, 2019-2021) and Jim Rosapepe (ret, 1998-2001) are all former U.S. ambassadors to Romania. We all know Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded...
View ArticleMacron urges Putin to agree ceasefire with Ukraine, in first talks since 2022
French President Emmanuel Macron has urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to agree to a ceasefire with Ukraine, in the first known talks between the two leaders since 2022. In a two-hour phone call...
View ArticleCIA review of 2016 Russia election probe finds no major flaws
A CIA review released Wednesday is critical of how the agency arrived at the assessment that Russia sought to sway the 2016 election in favor of Donald Trump — but finds the overall conclusion was...
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US arms stoppage to Ukraine ‘serious setback’ for EU and NATO, Danish PM says
AARHUS, Denmark — A U.S. decision to stop delivering some key munitions to Ukraine is damaging for NATO and the European Union, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Thursday. “If the U.S....
View ArticleTrump says no progress on Ukraine in call with Putin
President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke by phone Thursday, but neither side reported any breakthrough on efforts to end the war in Ukraine. Trump, who promised on the...
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Russian oil or mass layoffs: A German town’s conundrum
Russian oil or mass layoffs: A German town’s conundrum In Schwedt, life flows through an oil refinery. If it doesn’t get help — or restart Russian imports — people worry their jobs will be gone. By...
View ArticleRussia hits Ukraine with massive aerial attack after new Trump-Putin call
Russia launched 550 drones and missiles overnight Friday, including seven ballistic rockets, the Ukrainian Air Force said, in one of the Kremlin’s largest-ever attacks on Ukraine. Ukraine shot down...
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