For rulers, the most dangerous of all things is a still-armed soldier who starts to reflect, says John Wight.
Ukraine & Revolution
Tag: President Volodymyr Zelensky
Jeffrey Sachs: Negotiating Lasting Peace in Ukraine
Ukraine will have to cede more territory than it would have in April 2022 — when the U.S. and U.K. talked it out of a peace deal — but it will gain sovereignty and international security arrangements.
Patrick Lawrence: Trump Takes on the Deep State?
The U.S. president’s unfolding offensive against the institutions and agencies comprising the Deep State — the permanent state or the invisible government, as it is also commonly known — continues.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Chihuahuas, Not Dobermans
Trump’s determination to end the Ukraine war has forced the Europeans, at last, to go their own way. And they charge in precisely the wrong direction.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Trump 2.0 Crosses the Atlantic
Whatever the future may hold — and seldom does it present such promise and peril as now — Trump and his national-security team set a lot of wheels in motion last week.
Trump Wants Peace in Ukraine, But Why Not in Gaza?
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies on the contradiction of Trump pursuing an end to the war in Ukraine while supporting the genocide in Palestine.
RAY McGOVERN: Thawing Russia-US Relations?
Whether Trump spoke with Putin or not, it’s high time that the U.S. and Russian leaders communicate to resolve the existential crisis over Ukraine.
Trump’s Return to the White House
Trump is clearly not the change required, says John Wight, but he understands far better the America that for Washington has become enemy territory.
Is the Ukraine War Spilling Into Africa?
In the aftermath of a deadly ambush of Russian troops operating alongside Malian armed forces, Damilola Banjo looks into fears of parts of Africa becoming a proxy war zone.
RAY McGOVERN: Will Putin Attack Poland & the Baltics?
Given their lack of information about the Ukraine-Russia deal scuttled by Boris Johnson early in the war, many Americans will be inclined to believe Biden’s evidence-free claims in last week’s CNN debate.