EU, U.K. favored over U.S. as negotiators

With his party decisively beat at the polls, the rejected president is gambling with regional security to preserve his ‘legacy’ and to saddle the incoming president, who wants to end the war, with a major new crisis, writes Joe Lauria.

The US Must Operate the Long Range ATACMS missiles Russia claims

As I wrote in several articles months ago, the Joe Biden administration’s political wing kicked down the road until after the U.S. presidential election the escalation against Russia that allowing Kiev to hit the country with US long-range missiles would constitute. It appears, as numerous reports indicate, that Biden has now approved the use of U.S. long-range ATACM missiles by Ukraine to target Russia on its pre-2022 territory.

It remains unclear what Putin will ultimately do, but whichever of these two choices he makes will determine the trajectory of this conflict from now on, either more escalation or a possible compromise.

The Trump Administration will likely take the lead in any negotiations to end the war—a development that Vladimir Putin would welcome.

President-elect Donald Trump is inheriting a blood-soaked war in Ukraine. He has pledged to put a swift end to the carnage.

Debate grows as Ukraine is hit by one of the biggest aerial bombardments of the war

The residents of Kyiv have not slept properly in more than two months. Most nights there are Russian drones, and sirens sound from early evening until late morning. We know that during an air raid we should leave our beds […]

GENEVA, Nov 14 (Reuters) – Russia is open to negotiations on an end to the Ukraine war if initiated by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, but any talks need to be based on the realities of Russian advances, Moscow’s ambassador to the U.N. in Geneva told reporters on Thursday.