With a bleak assessment of Ukraine’s military, US intelligence leaks undermine White House excuses for shunning negotiations with Russia.

The administration’s diplomacy has underperformed—except at time-wasting talk about democracy.

Three key factors show why the administration needs to press the accelerator pedal on negotiations with Russia now.

The growing, partisan divide in the US over Ukraine could ultimately put an end to Biden’s political career when voters go to the polls next year, writes Professor Joseph M. Siracusa.

Wars are started by political forces. They are promoted by propagandists, fought by soldiers and it is always the ordinary people that suffer. Wars are almost never about principle and almost always about profit in one form or another. The war in Ukraine, like all other wars has been sold to us as a struggle between the forces of good and evil. A simple message is repeated and in Goebel’s world, a lie, if big enough and if repeated loudly enough will be believed.

Joe Biden is known for his perennial gaffes and misstatements. His critics view him as an outright liar while his fans acknowledge that Biden is prone to exaggerations that do far more harm than good.

It is said that President John F. Kennedy gave the most important speech of his presidency before the graduating class at the American University in Washington, D.C., in June 1963. The occasion was five months before his death and eight months after he had confronted Russian premier Nikita Khrushchev over the deployment of Russian nuclear missiles in Cuba. The Cuban Missile Crisis would later be seen as a defining moment in U.S.-Russian relations. It was the closest approach of the two Cold War antagonists to a nuclear confrontation.

On August 31, 2021 President Joe Biden declared the American withdrawal from Afghanistan to be complete and America’s longest war to be over. Biden and his supporters hailed that as a turning point in American foreign policy and an end to “forever wars.”

A round of applause for U.S. President Joe Biden: he has just touched down in Ukraine in a show of support for a nation that has truly suffered like no other in the 21st century.

Is America back?