Trump is the proverbial bull in the china shop. That makes it much harder to negotiate a “just peace” in Ukraine as he will act on impulse to get what he wants. And his main motive is money, not peace

Kyiv insists the attacks are orchestrated by Russia, but there is rising reluctance in the country to join the fight as the war drags on.

Russia is open to negotiations but only based on current territorial realities.

It is neither corruption nor a lack of intelligence that compels so many of our leading public figures to believe things that are completely disconnected from reality …

Their reported sudden departure last week raises a lot of questions

A leaked document has given us a first glimpse at Trump’s peace plan for Ukraine. According to the Ukrainian online newspaper Strana, U.S. officials handed the plan to European diplomats who then passed it on to Ukraine.

U.S. President Donald Trump is apparently intent on achieving peace at a rapid pace, having set a 100 day window for accomplishing this exceedingly complex political task. Aside from such a time table’s lack of realism, there are other factors that will render its soon out of date. Primary is the deteriorating state of the Ukrainian army’s capacity to hold back the powerful Russian armed forces now arrayed against it. The front may suffer a catastrophic collapse before Trump’s presumed deadline, giving Russia an even greater upper hand in talks.

Undoing 40 years of U.S. Neo-Containment policy and building global diplomacy for sustainable peace

President Trump should respond: Hell no!

Moscow’s troops used the same pincer tactic on Velyka Novosilka that has enabled their recent capture of town after town in eastern Ukraine.