Move sparks backlash in Kyiv, as ex-president accuses incumbent of “politically motivated” attack.

Europe is coming to grips with new global realities.

Not long ago, Volodymyr Zelensky was a comedian in Ukraine. He made his living playing a fictional president on television. Then, by a twist of fate, he became the real thing. And before he had time to adjust to the role, history threw him onto the world’s stage, catapulting him from a middling entertainer into an international symbol of resistance.

Congressional Democrats are opposed but won’t offer any alternative

Trump’s opening gambit in the negotiations with Russia about Ukraine has caused some waves.

President Trump has stated that he has begun to work with Russian President Vladimir Putin to put an end the war between Ukraine and Russia “immediately.” Yet to do so, he will need to think and act outside the stereotypes of narrow neo-conservative and neo-liberal thinking that have governed the post-Cold War era.

In the old days of the econoblogosphere, there were regular and often intense exchanges about what the decent-sized community of finance practitioners, economists, journalists, and other experts trying to understand what was going on, since alarmingly top officials were clearly way behind the curve. That included occasional critiques of posts by individuals we more often cited, which in my case included Paul Krugman (back in the days when he was sane), Felix Salmon, and Steve Waldman. But that does not seem to happen much if at all in this era of podcasts, YouTubing, and Substackers. So I trust this post on why there will not be a negotiated settlement with in Ukraine will be taken in that spirit, that highlighting points of disagreement is essential in coming to better approximations of reality.

Had These Negotiations Started Earlier, The Bloodshed In the Ukraine Conflict Could Have Been Stopped.

EU and European Cooperation is Unlikely

The gutting of USAID will hurt people in need worldwide. Yet as the case of Ukraine shows, the agency has also been used to spread conflict and propaganda.