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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, ...
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...
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...
’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...