MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has offered the United States to restore direct air links between the two countries during the latest round of consultations with Washington, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Friday.

President Donald Trump’s top environmental regulator is recommending the US government scrap its formal conclusion that greenhouse gases endanger the public, a move that would sweep away the legal foundation for regulations limiting planet-warming pollution from power plants, automobiles and oil wells.

President Donald Trump’s recent remarks about nuclear weapons are 100-percent correct.

Professor Jeffrey Sachs’ Speech at European Parliament on February 19, 2025

I think Trump is sincere in wanting to broker a peace deal with Russia, but I do not think he has grasped the fact that Russia has no desire to end the war with Ukraine until it is defeated, along with NATO, or the United States accepts the conditions President Putin presented last June. Europe is a different matter entirely. The European Union bureaucrats and the leaders of France, Germany and the UK want to keep the war going.

The West has long tried to delegitimize the Russian president and the nation he leads.

They make a wilderness, and they call it peace. —Tacitus, Agricola

In the 20th Century, the German city of Munich was the arena of many dark and dramatic episodes. In February 2025, the city was also the scene of an extremely positive event for modern human history – we are talking about the historic speech by U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance – capable of offering a glimmer of hope to the whole world instead of plunging us back into the deepest despair. But that is only if the president, Donald Trump, really succeeds in fighting the “Deep State” and “draining the swamp of Washington,” goals that eluded him during his first term.

The annual Munich Security Conference (MSC) always attracts much public attention, but never so much as this year’s event. On the opening day of the three-day event on Friday, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, spoke at the “China in the World” event of the MSC.

Donald Trump’s first term as president shook smug European certainty about continued U.S. protection, but his NATO warnings ultimately turned out to be a little more insistent (and abrasive) than those of his predecessors.