WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump issued Russian President Vladimir Putin an ultimatum on Wednesday – make a deal with me to end the Ukraine war or pay a hefty economic price. Trump said he’d put all manner of taxes, tariffs and sanctions on anything being sold by Russia to the United States and vaguely threatened…
WASHINGTON − An outgoing Biden administration official warned against a looming Cold War-style nuclear arms race in a farewell speech. Jill Hruby, head of the National Nuclear Security Administration, said the U.S. cannot build more nuclear weapons than Russia and China (and its “gigantic economy”) in the decades to come, despite an ongoing $1.7 trillion…
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President-elect Donald Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin and advised him not to escalate the Ukraine war, a source familiar with the conversation told Reuters on Sunday, as President Joe Biden plans to urge Trump not to abandon Kyiv. Trump and Putin spoke in recent days, said the source. Trump spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday. Trump has criticized the scale of U.S. military and financial support…
With 8,000 North Korean troops now poised to join Russia’s fight in Ukraine, the U.S. is reaching out to China to leverage its relationships with Moscow and Pyongyang to “curb” the entry of North Korean forces. The U.S. had a “robust conversation” with China this week about the North Korean troops’ dispatch to Russia, Secretary…