Tag: Europe

The madness lies in asserting something ... contrary to all evidence and intelligence. The method is doing it again and again, relentlessly, at full volume ... This is how Trump became president twice.

Washington is ... trying to blame the Europeans for the president’s failure to broker peace.

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.