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Efforts to negotiate peace in Ukraine, involving the US and Russia.
The claim that President Trump “ended eight wars” is a headline-grabbing simplification: independent fact-checkers and international reporting show a mix of temporary ceasefires, disputed mediations, ...
Across the last decade the clearest in Europe occurred in and , with major advances also visible in , , and ; these parties have converted protest votes into governing power, coalition leverage, or su...
The is widely dated to February 2014, when occupied and then and backed separatists in eastern , initiating sustained armed conflict . That conflict was dramatically escalated into a full‑scale invasi...
Three broad trigger families—rapid conventional attack on a member (most often framed as a ), that crosses Article 5 thresholds (cyber, sabotage, airspace shoot‑downs), and inadvertent escalation from...
President Biden can be credibly credited with ending one major, long-running U.S. combat engagement: the American combat mission in Afghanistan, concluded with the August 2021 withdrawal from that cou...
Consensus among public trackers and some expert-roundup reporting places the near‑term odds of a global, alliance‑triggering "World War III" in the non‑negligible but not imminent range — commonly cit...
There is no record of Vladimir Putin or the Russian state issuing an official, legally binding declaration of war on the United States; multiple fact‑checks and mainstream outlets report no such decla...
has been steadily reworking the legal and practical contours of what it calls its “historic” or internal waters—from ’s Northern Sea Route to and parts of —deploying domestic laws, baseline redrawings...
President Donald Trump authorized or enabled roughly $40 billion in U.S. support to Ukraine as a mix of strategic bargaining, political signaling, and practical steps to sustain Kyiv while negotiating...
has framed as both untrustworthy and the principal obstacle to peace in , urging increased sanctions and readiness to escalate military planning while assembling a "coalition of the willing" to deter ...
’s coverage, as reflected in the available reporting, leaned on live on-the-ground reporting and and Ukrainian official accounts while prompting criticism from who say she under‑represents negotiators...
Four broad families of theories try to explain Putin–Trump ties: transactional (money, business and patronage), psychological/ideological affinity (admiration for strongmen), strategic realpolitik (mu...
Barack Obama entered the presidency promising restraint, multilateral engagement and a “reset” with Russia, and over eight years his foreign policy shifted from early efforts to reduce large-scale gro...