A top Trump official is claiming Russia “was provoked” into invading Ukraine, repeating talking points used by President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. “The war didn’t need to happen,” U.S. envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff said Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union. “It was provoked. …
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 »Zelensky: U.S. Weapons Will Give Ukraine 'a Chance at Victory' Against Russia
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky thanked the U.S. House for approving aid to Ukraine that he said will give the nation a “chance at victory” as it fights against Russian aggression and incursion on its land. “I think this support will really strengthen the armed forces, I pray, and we will …
Read More »MAGA Fave Calls Ukraine's Jewish President a 'Nazi'
Presidential candidate, Vivek Ramaswamy, called Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, a “comedian in cargo pants” and a “Nazi” during the NBC News Republican debate Wednesday. Zelensky, who is Jewish, has expressed his solidarity with Israel amid its war in Gaza and has reportedly sent an official request to the Israeli Prime …
Read More »Listen: Billionaire Brags About Trump Sharing Secret Information With Him
Nearly two weeks ago, media reported that Donald Trump reportedly revealed information about U.S. nuclear submarine capabilities to Australian billionaire Anthony Pratt. And on Sunday, 60 Minutes Australia played recordings of secret tapes where Pratt disclosed other non-public information Trump shared with him, including information about U.S. military operations in …
Read More »'Superpower' Is Sean Penn's Odd Vanity Project About Zelensky
Sean Penn knows what you think of him. Several minutes into the two-time Oscar winner’s new film, Superpower, ostensibly a documentary about the battle-hardened president of Ukraine, Penn’s gravelly voice answers a question posed in interviews past: Who do you think you are, Walter Cronkite? You have a savior complex? …
Read More »'20 Days in Mariupol' Is a Chilling, You-Are-There Look at the Ukraine War
“My brain desperately wants to forget all of this. But the camera will not let it happen.” The voice on the soundtrack belongs to Mstyslav Chernov, a longtime war correspondent for the Associated Press. He had grown up in Ukraine, in the town of Kharkiv, and was part of a …
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