CN Editor Joe Lauria assesses the increasingly bizarre foreign policy of the Trump administration with journalist Rachel Blevins.
WATCH: A Foreign Policy of the Absurd
Category: Russia
Getting the UN Involved in Ukraine
A legally-acceptable peacekeeping force can only be set up through the auspices of the United Nations Security Council and that would mean both sides of the war agreeing, writes Joe Lauria.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: Greek Leftists for Trump
Trying to stop the war in Ukraine, spreading fear among conservative politicians and carrying out diplomacy with North Korea, as the U.S. president did in his first term, all earn points.
It’s Up to Europe’s Citizens
As Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin speak about ending the Ukraine war on Tuesday, European leaders are talking war and only their citizens can stop them, says Edward Lozansky.
War Fever Grips Europe
As if two world wars born in Europe were not enough, an increasingly divided Europe is seeking unity through militarization and hyperbolic fear of Russia, writes Uroš Lipušcek.
USAID Funded Ukraine Group That Smears Americans
The Trump administration has lambasted the foreign aid agency for absurd foreign expenditures, but Wyatt Reed says it has omitted what is perhaps its most scandalous operation.
The Phony Ceasefire
Knowing well in advance that Russia would reject it, the U.S. and Ukraine announced with fanfare that its ceasefire deal was in “Russia’s court” in what was an exercise of pure public relations, writes Joe Lauria.
Craig Murray: Putin Is No Hitler
The economies of Western Europe are being realigned onto a war footing, led by the utterly transformed European Union, whose leaders are now channelling an atavistic hereditary hatred of Russia.
Ukraine & Revolution
For rulers, the most dangerous of all things is a still-armed soldier who starts to reflect, says John Wight.
Moscow Nights — and Days
Andrew P. Napolitano says that in his interviews with them, two of Putin’s closest confidants showed appreciation for Trump’s intended “reset” of U.S.-Russian relations.