Tag: Europe

The Trump-Putin meeting was a victory for Russia’s positive diplomatic strategy and an admission that Moscow cannot be isolated.

It is beyond cavil that there can be no lasting peace for Ukraine without iron-clad security guarantees.

One of the cardinal mistakes made by the U.S. administration was to conclude the summit in Anchorage with no mention of a desperately needed ceasefire agreement.

Rather than a move towards peace, the meetings should be seen as political performances that expose the dysfunction of global governance.

The annexation of Crimea in 2014 demonstrated that Putin’s Russia is not exactly known for respecting its international and bilateral agreements.

The U.S., under President George W. Bush, had pushed for both Ukraine and Georgia to immediately enter NATO’s Membership Action Plan.

There must be no deal that will leave the people of war-torn Ukraine languishing in their misery.

The European leaders who gathered Monday at the White House alongside Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy left with vague promises of U.S. support but no guarantees of a breakthrough to resolve the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.

What Putin asks is legitimization of Russian acquisition of the Crimean peninsula in 2014.

There may be something there for India as well since it is left facing a huge Trump tariff trauma.

In Washington, European leaders helped steer the U.S. president away from his embrace of Vladimir Putin’s talking points. But for how long?