Since President Trump decided to rebrand the Defense Department as the “Department of War,” to more accurately reflect how tough he is, I suggest we rebrand the White House as “The Waffle House” — to more accurately reflect Trump’s incessant waffling when it comes to actually doing something to deter Vladimir Putin’s steadily increasing onslaught…
As the leaders of China, Russia and North Korea gathered for a grand military parade in Beijing, President Trump on Wednesday took pains to brush off the striking show of solidarity among America’s adversaries. In remarks from the Oval Office, Mr. Trump praised the parade as “beautiful,” and “very, very impressive.” “I understood the reason…
President Vladimir V. Putin’s demand that Ukraine cede the entirety of the Donbas region before Russia stops fighting has highlighted a central question of any negotiations: where to draw a border both sides could accept. But finding a solution will be fraught. President Volodymyr Zelensky flatly rejected Russia’s proposal, invoking Ukraine’s constitution, which states that…
Vladimir V. Putin exuded confidence. Sitting back, surrounded by foreign dignitaries, the Russian president explained the futility of Ukrainian resistance. Russia had the advantage on the battlefield, as he saw it, and by rejecting his demands, Ukraine risked even more for peace. “Keep at it, then, keep at it. It will only get worse,” Mr….
President Trump spared Russia from the tariffs he had imposed on 180 other nations in a bid to reshape global trade. But that did not exempt the country from the ensuing economic havoc. The price of oil, the lifeline of Russia’s economy and war machine, has fallen nearly 15 percent since Mr. Trump announced the…
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said on Tuesday that two Chinese citizens fighting alongside Russian forces had been taken as prisoners of war. Mr. Zelensky said that the two Chinese citizens had been captured while fighting in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine. He added that Kyiv had information that “there are many more such…
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia congratulated the hockey player Alex Ovechkin on Monday for breaking the N.H.L.’s goal-scoring record. Mr. Ovechkin, 39, captain of the Washington Capitals, scored his 895th career goal on Sunday evening in a game against the New York Islanders. That broke a record set by Wayne Gretzky that had stood…
President Trump has said he trusts President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia to abide by any peace deal on Ukraine they negotiate. Many Russians who fled the country in the early months of the war are not so sure. Nor do they have much faith that the conditions that drove them abroad — including a…
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Friday that Russia is running out of time to convince the Trump administration that it is serious about striking a peace deal with Ukraine and not just playing for time. Speaking in Brussels after a two-day gathering of NATO ministers, Mr. Rubio said that the United States was…
“FREE MARINE LE PEN!” With this blunt call, a strange one in that the French far-right leader is walking the streets of Paris, President Trump has waded into the politics of an ally, condemning her conviction this week on embezzlement charges and her disqualification from running for public office. The conviction was “another example of…