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‘The Trump whisperer’ — Can Mark Rutte save NATO?
‘THE TRUMP WHISPERER’ Can Mark Rutte save NATO? The Dutch prime minister is a top contender to lead the alliance in a period of unprecedented turbulence. By EVA HARTOGand STUART LAUin Brussels...
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Ukraine: A struggle for the ages
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. “Today I will not panic and cry. I will be calm and confident. My kids are watching.” These were the words of Ukraine’s First Lady Olena Zelenska...
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Ukraine’s war strategy: Survive 2024 to win in 2025
Ukraine has an ambitious military goal for this year — hold on. It’s the third year of the country’s full-scale war with Russia and a decade since Moscow illegally annexed Crimea and set off a...
View ArticleBiden meets with Navalny’s widow and daughter
President Joe Biden met Thursday with the widow and daughter of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in prison last week. In San Francisco as part of a three-day fundraising swing...
View ArticlePutin loses grip on member of his military alliance
YEREVAN, Armenia — After more than two decades as part of a Moscow-led military alliance, Armenia has effectively suspended its membership as a result of a growing rift with Vladimir Putin’s Russia....
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Putin banked €1B last year from EU fuel buys despite ban
BRUSSELS — The EU last year added €1 billion to Vladimir Putin’s war chest through fuel purchases despite sweeping bans on Russian oil, a new study shared with POLITICO found. In 2023, the EU bought...
View ArticleUK backpedals after minister talks up ‘removing’ Vladimir Putin
LONDON — The U.K. government was forced to clarify Friday that the future of Vladimir Putin is a “matter for the Russian people” — after a junior minister suggested Britain might be out to get him....
View ArticleBiden announces more than 500 new sanctions on Russia after Navalny’s death
President Joe Biden on Friday announced more than 500 new sanctions on Russia and its war machine in the largest tranche of penalties since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine nearly two years ago. Biden...
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World’s cartoonists on this week’s events
First published on PoliticalCartoons.com, Feb. 20, 2024 | By Plop and KanKr First published in the Columbia Missourian, U.S., Feb. 21, 2024 | By John Darkow First published on PoliticalCartoons.com,...
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Cameron and Sikorski: Failing to stand with Ukraine will remake the world as...
David Cameron is the British secretary of state for foreign affairs. Radosław Sikorski is the Polish minister of foreign affairs. Two years ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his...
View ArticleFailure in Ukraine ‘will remake the world,’ UK and Poland warn deadlocked US
LONDON — A failure to stand up to Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine “will remake the world as we know it,” the foreign ministers of Britain and Poland warned Saturday, as they urged deadlocked U.S....
View ArticleThe West tried to crush Russia’s economy. Why hasn’t it worked?
Oil income: slashed. Oligarchs’ assets: frozen. Access to weapons: choked. Russia has faced a historic slew of penalties from Washington, Brussels and beyond since it launched its full-scale invasion...
View ArticleAlexei Navalny’s body handed over to family
The body of Alexei Navalny was delivered to his mother on Saturday, a spokesperson for the late Russian opposition leader said. “Alexei’s body was handed over to his mother,” Kira Yarmysh, Navalny’s...
View ArticleItaly’s Meloni: If Russia hadn’t invaded Ukraine, Hamas wouldn’t have...
Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine two years ago was the precursor to the Hamas militant group’s attack on Israel last October, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said in an interview published...
View ArticleLukashenko to run for Belarus president again in 2025: Report
Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko said he will run for president again in 2025, according to the Belarusian state news agency BelTA. “Tell them [the opposition in exile] that I will run! And...
View Article10 ways a second Trump term could be more extreme than the first
An increasingly detailed picture of former President Donald Trump’s second-term agenda is emerging — one that would make the near-daily shocks of his norm-shattering first White House tenure look...
View ArticleNavalny’s death a sign of Putin’s weakness, US national security adviser says
Alexei Navalny’s death in a Russian prison camp is a sign of President Vladimir Putin’s weakness, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Sunday. “What I’ve been struck by is the...
View ArticleSerbia rebukes Croatia minister for calling Vučić a Russian ‘satellite’
Serbia on Sunday protested to the Croatian embassy in Belgrade after Croatia’s foreign minister called Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić a Russian “satellite.” Croatian Foreign Minister Gordan...
View Article31,000 Ukraine troops killed in Russia’s invasion, Zelenskyy says
Some 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed defending the country in the two years since Russia launched its all-out invasion, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday. It’s the first time Kyiv...
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Ukraine’s foreign minister: Russia must pay for the damage it’s done
Dmytro Kuleba is Ukraine’s foreign minister. Russia must pay for the enormous damage it’s done to Ukraine with its unprovoked and entirely unjustified aggression. And as we mark the second anniversary...
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