Section: Gatestone Institute (USA)
Putin’s Peace Talks: Half a Country Now, the Rest Later, The Art of Running Out the Clock
At the upcoming “summit,” there will be photographers, interpreters, handshakes and much talk of peace. One man will apparently have to make do with just the television coverage: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, whose country Russian forces are …read more Source:: Gatestone...
Putin’s ‘Ceasefire’ Trap
Wars of attrition are won by whoever can keep paying for them, and Vladimir Putin has spent more than four and a half years betting that Ukraine’s Western partners would tire before Russia’s treasury did. In three days, Washington gave that bet its best …read more Source:: Gatestone...
Putin Talks Peace. His Missiles Say Otherwise
Russian President Vladimir Putin has rediscovered the vocabulary of peace at the precise moment his army is taking Ukraine apart, one bridge and one power station at a time. On September 25, addressing Russian journalists, he said that every proposal for …read more Source:: Gatestone...
The Chinese Dragon Lurks Beneath the Pacific
In an era when artificial intelligence is now directing deadly drone attacks in Ukraine, it would be understandable to focus exclusively on what that now means on the battlefield. This would be a grave mistake. Few in the West have noticed that China …read more Source:: Gatestone...
NATO’s Photo-Op in Ankara
If fully backed by NATO, Ukraine could win. Taking into account the devastation [the Middle East] war has caused, not only in Iran but also in Israel and the GCC countries, not to mention its global impact, talk of devising a new plan to bring peace and …read more Source:: Gatestone...
Urgently Needed: A President Trump 21st Century ‘Manhattan Project’ for Fusion Energy to Secure Global Leadership
Tariffs, Ukraine, DOGE, the budget, NATO, the Middle East; the headlines are dominated by daily issues that demand our attention, but they also serve to distract us from the strategic issues that will determine who will be the dominant superpower during …read more Source:: Gatestone...
America and Europe: Both Need to Take a Deep Breath
[At the February 28 White House meeting] Ukraine could have had an implicit security guarantee because, as Trump noted, if American companies and citizens are present on Ukrainian soil, Russia might think twice before pursuing its carpet-bombing campaign …read more Source:: Gatestone...
Zelensky Agrees to Trump’s ‘Marshall Plan’ for Ukraine
Trump did not rule out considering US assistance to a European military force should that eventuality become necessary. Trump clearly believes that it is important for him to take a tough line with Zelensky, to demonstrate to Moscow that he is acting as …read more Source:: Gatestone...
Zelensky Agrees to Trump’s ‘Marshall Plan’ for Ukraine
Trump did not rule out considering US assistance to a European military force should that eventuality become necessary. Trump clearly believes that it is important for him to take a tough line with Zelensky, to demonstrate to Moscow that he is acting as …read more Source:: Gatestone...
Trump’s First Big Disastrous Mistake
The problem, of course, is that after seeing what happened when Libya’s General Muammar Ghaddafi gave up nuclear weapons in 2003 and Ukraine gave up nuclear weapons in 1994, no one with an IQ above single digits would ever agree to give up nuclear …read more Source:: Gatestone...
