Greetings from Tyler, It may be that a war is needed. After all, what hasn’t gone wrong during the pretender’s first full year? A skirmish would surely soak up plenty of ink and airtime. The White House is all about … Read More
The EU has redacted the only nice thing it was planning to say about Russia from its landmark strategy paper. “Many common interests and a shared culture in fact link the EU and Russia. That is why the EU strategy … Read More
MOSCOW — First U.S. and Russian diplomats faced off in Geneva. Then NATO received a Russian delegation in Brussels. Finally, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe will sponsor talks in Vienna Thursday. Russia courted all this attention by … Read More
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz wants to reset relations with Moscow and is planning a face-to-face meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin later this month. Senior German officials were already scheduled to get together with Russian counterparts in January in a … Read More
The United States and Germany both agree that the build-up of Russian troops along the Ukrainian border could result in major consequences. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock met in Washington on Wednesday to … Read More
Bruce Stokes is a visiting fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. January 20 marks the end of the first year of Joe Biden’s presidency, an administration that promised to respect and rebuild the transatlantic alliance after … Read More
Russia’s President Putin is set to bask in the global limelight as a series of high-profile conferences on security in Europe kicks off this week. What could be better for an autocratic ruler, says DW’s Bernd Riegert. Vladimir Putin must … Read More
1. COVID-19 continues to rage For a second year the COVID-19 pandemic has raged, with more severe waves of infection causing more losses following the emergence of new variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus: Delta and Omicron. At the end of … Read More
US President Joe Biden has told Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy the United States will “respond decisively” if Russia further invades Ukraine. President Joe Biden said that the US and its allies would “respond decisively” if Russia further invaded Ukraine, in … Read More
President Vladimir Putin said Sunday that if NATO does not provide binding guarantees to curtail military deployments in Eastern Europe and to bar Ukraine from membership in the alliance, he will be forced to consider a variety of options, including … Read More