Russian president reassures Chinese leader amid U.S.-Russia rapprochement

Our maximalist goals have led to a high cost in human life and economic destruction, with no clear gain.

Donald Trump has been flayed alive by Western media and leaders for saying Ukraine started the war. Here are facts, not myths, says Joe Lauria.

Awakening the West from its dreams.

“I’ve had very good talks with Putin, and I’ve had not such good talks with Ukraine,” Trump said of the U.S. negotiations to end the war in Ukraine.

While the Russian and Ukrainian militaries have been clashing violently on the bloody battlefields of Eastern Europe, a parallel war has long been underway in the media sphere, where armies of information warriors have battled to shape the ways Western publics think about the conflict.

Multiple times on this site over the last three years, I have advocated for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine.

WASHINGTON — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has few — if any — advocates in President Trump’s inner circle as the pair’s souring relationship threatens to tank Kyiv’s standing in peace talks with Russia.

Let’s do a new pan-European security deal that includes Russia. It solves all the problems including providing Ukraine with its security guarentees and its what the Kremlin wants anyway.

Revisiting a Scott Ritter Investigation