The United States has stopped sharing intelligence with Ukraine, less than two days after announcing Washington was suspending military aid to its former ally. “We have taken a step back and are pausing and reviewing all aspects of this relationship,” said National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, speaking to reporters outside …
Read More »'Inhuman': Russia's Christmas Day Attack Knocks Out Power Across Ukraine
The Russian government launched what it announced was a “massive” attack on “critical” energy targets in Ukraine on Christmas Day. The major drone and missile assault on Kharkiv led to power cuts and outages across Ukraine, including in its capital Kyiv. Ukrainian defense authorities were initially mum on casualty estimates …
Read More »Putin Rattles Nuclear Saber With Unprecedented Strike on Ukraine
Russia’s unprecedented use of a massive ballistic missile against a city in central Ukraine is a message to Kyiv and its allies, and shows the war is escalating in unpredictable ways with just two months left in the Biden administration. In the early morning on Thursday, Russia struck Dnipro, an …
Read More »Biden Is Giving Ukraine More Firepower Before Trump Takes Over
President Joe Biden has authorized Ukraine to use guided long-range American missiles to attack Russia, two senior U.S. officials told The Washington Post on Sunday. Officials said that the decision, a reversal of current U.S. policy, was made after thousands of North Korean troops were deployed to Kursk in southern …
Read More »Trump's Peace Plan for Ukraine Looks Like Putin's Victory
Russian President Vladimir Putin sees an opportunity to consolidate territorial gains in Ukraine and freeze the war in Moscow’s favor, with President-elect Donald Trump having vowed to end the war “in 24 hours” once he was elected — even if it means forcing the beleaguered democracy to cede land that …
Read More »Ukraine May Cost Trump the Election
Immigration and economics loom large on the campaign trail and in the minds of voters, but America’s foreign entanglements could well decide the election. The Democratic Party is desperately trying to keep debate about the conduct of Israel’s wars in Gaza and Lebanon contained to an intramural row over policy, …
Read More »How Ukraine Put Putin on the Defensive
KHARKIV —According to President Vladimir Putin, Russia is not at war. So it may have been a surprise to many Russians living near the Ukrainian border when they were invaded by foreign soldiers. “Dear Vladimir Vladimirovitch [Putin], we the residents of the Russian Federation, Kursk Oblast, Sudzhansky District, we are …
Read More »He Confirmed Russia Meddled in 2016 to Help Trump. Now, He's Speaking Out
It was the summer of 2016 when a manager at the Central Intelligence Agency pulled him into a conference room, sat him down at a table, and asked him to read the intelligence they had brought. Michael van Landingham wasn’t naive about what the Kremlin was capable of. His work …
Read More »Russian Mercenaries Hunt the African Warlord America Couldn't Catch
Russian mercenaries are chasing one of the world’s most notorious fugitives: the warlord Joseph Kony, who abducted tens of thousands of children from across central Africa, brutalizing and brainwashing them as child soldiers and sex slaves in a decadeslong maelstrom of terror. Multiple sources independently describe to Rolling Stone a …
Read More »New Netflix Doc Asks If Putin Restarted the Cold War — Or If It Ever Ended in the First Place
And the award for good timing goes to Netflix. In the wake of Oppenheimer’s inevitable Oscar coronation Sunday night, a celebration of a movie about the tormented father of the atomic bomb and the world he helped create, the mega-streamer has dropped Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War, …
Read More »