This month, like every year, the United Nations General Assembly takes place. Heads of State take the floor to send messages to the world. These messages are broadcast on TV, transcribed, and
Vladimir Zelensky has thrown a wrench into the Trump administration’s effort to gear up peace talks between Ukraine and Russia. Just after Putin, in a major departure from Russia’s policy, announced he
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Is a partition plan a realistic outcome for ending the Ukraine war. General Keith Kellogg’s proposal appears to have already encountered difficulties. However, that does not mean that some type of partition
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It may be that the US-Russia and US-Ukraine negotiations are going off the rails. Meanwhile the US is anxious for Europe to take over responsibility for supporting Ukraine as Washington turns to
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Signal is an encrypted communication app that supports voice, video and text. Its use in a high level government meeting appears to have led to the compromise of information, but it also
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The EU has proposed a Re-Arm Europe Plan that would raise more than € 800 billion ($866 billion) for defense, while Germany has just passed legislation that ostensibly will commit €1 Trillion ($1.08 Trillion)
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If the US and Russia want a deal on Ukraine, Zelensky will need to cooperate. That is far from certain. The result could be that President Trump will not be able to
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Ursula Von Der Leyen, the President of the European Commission has proposed that Europe increase its defense spending by 1.5% GDP over the average 2.0% GDP European countries are currently spending on
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It is only a guess, but it could be more than that. Trump and Putin are engaged in negotiations over Ukraine and European security. The tea leaves say that this is being
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In 1864 Abraham Lincoln stood for reelection. He thought he might lose, mostly because the war was going badly, although the war started to turn in the Union’s favor as the election
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President Trump says he has “had it” with Zelensky, and leaks from Washington suggest that Zelensky go into exile, maybe to France. But is that the right approach to getting a Ukraine
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Both the Russian and the US side say that the high level diplomatic meeting held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on the morning of February 17th was successful. Steve Witkoff, who is Trump’s
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The Trump administration probably cannot negotiate a comprehensive deal for Ukraine immediately and will need to come up with an initial solution to try and halt the fighting. Doing so is a
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Two conflicting reports on Iran’s nuclear weapons program were disclosed this week. Both reports offer important insight in just how Tehran is speeding up work on nuclear weapons. The first report is
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In the evening of January 29th, 2025 a commercial airliner operated by American Airlines crashed after hitting a US Army helicopter, a Sikorsky H-60. The airliner was Flight 5342 out of Wichita,
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President Donald Trump, on Truth Social and in interviews, is pushing the idea that Russia needs to hurry up and make a deal on Ukraine before Trump, taking advantage of Russia’s economic problems, imposes
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