For two decades, Venezuela cultivated anti-American allies across the globe, from Russia and China to Cuba and Iran, in the hope of forming a new world order that…
Read more Why Russia and China Are Sitting Out Venezuela’s Clash With TrumpThree powerful businessmen—two Americans and a Russian—hunched over a laptop in Miami Beach last month, ostensibly to draw up a plan to end Russia’s long and deadly war…
Read more Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in UkraineAnother corruption scandal is roiling Ukraine, and there’s no denying corruption exists there as it does in most of the former Soviet states. The question is whether this…
Read more Opinion | Ukraine Corruption and U.S. InterestsExplosions rocked two tankers sanctioned for carrying Russian oil, the latest in a spate of blasts on such vessels, sparking a rescue operation off Turkey’s Black Sea coast.…
Read more Mystery Blasts Rock Russia-Linked Oil Tankers Off Turkey’s CoastA 28-point plan and President Vladimir Putin’s response to it have offered some of the best clues yet to a fundamental question bedeviling peace talks: What does the…
Read more New Peace Push Offers Clues to Fundamental Question: What Does Putin Want?The departure of Ukraine’s top negotiator—the president’s right-hand man Andriy Yermak—comes at a pivotal moment for the country. Ian Lovett Source link
Read more Zelensky’s Top Aide Resigns as Corruption Probe DeepensBRUSSELS—In the accelerating contest between great powers, Europe is struggling to keep up. The continent’s leaders have long worried they will be left behind as the U.S., China…
Read more Europe Fears It Can’t Catch Up in Great Power CompetitionU.S. adversaries are using President Trump’s eagerness to strike deals as a chance to drive a wedge between the U.S. and its allies and undermine the Washington-led security…
Read more Where Trump Sees Deals, Russia and China See a Chance to Disrupt U.S. AlliancesWhen President Trump decided to send Pentagon representatives to Ukraine in an attempt to resuscitate stalled peace talks, he turned to an unexpected source: Army Secretary Dan Driscoll.…
Read more The JD Vance Classmate Emerging as a Key Player in Talks to End the Ukraine WarUTENA, Lithuania—Some 1,500 paramilitaries descended on this industrial city in northeastern Lithuania late last month, taking up positions at government buildings and around critical infrastructure to prepare for…
Read more Paramilitary Expansion Shows Scale of War Preparations on NATO’s Eastern FrontierThe White House is defending special envoy Steve Witkoff over a reportedly leaked conversation in which he told a Russian official that praising President Trump would help smooth…
Read more White House Defends Witkoff After Leak of Conversation With Russian OfficialThe hysterics will get hysterical all over again when it turns out peace isn’t nigh. Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. Source link
Read more Opinion | Can Trump Deliver Putin?By James Marson and Nikita Nikolaienko | Photography by Serhii Korovayny for WSJ KYIV, Ukraine—Nataliia Melnychenko stood outside a residential building hit by a Russian drone early Tuesday,…
Read more Ukrainians Resist Pressure from Russia—and TrumpArmy Secretary Dan Driscoll met with a Russian delegation in Abu Dhabi on Monday and Tuesday, a sign that talks to end the war in Ukraine have hit…
Read more Top Army Official Meets Russians in U.A.E., Signaling New Phase in Peace TalksWASHINGTON—It started with an October order from President Trump to his national security team: Come up with a plan to end the Ukraine war just as they had…
Read more Exclusive | How the U.S. Drafted a Russia-Friendly Peace Plan for UkrainePresident Trump on Monday touted “big progress” on talks to end the Ukraine war, and Kyiv is doubtless willing to make painful concessions to avoid surrender or U.S.…
Read more Opinion | What a Good Ukraine Peace Looks LikeIn an unusual diplomatic move, Chinese leader Xi Jinping initiated a phone call with President Trump on Monday, discussing Taiwan and Ukraine as Washington, Kyiv and Moscow try…
Read more China’s Xi Calls Trump in Unusual Move to Discuss Ukraine, TaiwanDiplomats from the U.S., Ukraine and Europe are thrashing out changes to a Trump-backed plan to end the war between Moscow and Kyiv, a proposal that critics said…
Read more Big Gaps Still Left to Bridge in U.S. Peace Plan for UkraineGermany’s largest arms manufacturer, Rheinmetall RHM -3.85%decrease; red down pointing triangle, expects its sales will be five times as much as they were last year by the end…
Read more Rheinmetall Turns to Former Auto Workers to Fuel Hiring SpreeHas the West absorbed the right lessons from Ukraine’s war with Russia? For the unsettling answer, look at what’s buzzing mysteriously in the skies above Europe’s cities. Drones…
Read more Opinion | Suspicious Drones Over Europe