“Breathe deeply, calm down, and don’t go running to stock up on food and matches,” President Volodymyr Zelensky told Ukrainians one month before the Russian tanks rolled across the border on Feb. 24, 2022. The American and British intelligence services knew Russia was going to invade and told Zelensky so
Trump, Putin have identical 19th-century views about how the world should work, at a time when almost everybody else sees it differently.
Russian, U.S. leaders want a return to the good old days, when anything you could conquer, you could keep.
Russia has its endless war in Ukraine, Africa has the Sudanese civil war, the U.S. is on the brink of invading Venezuela, India and Pakistan had a brief (non-nuclear) war in South Asia, and Israel bombed Iran, Qatar, Syria, Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.
The federal budget Nov. 4 will be a clear declaration of this country’s intentions and future ambitions
Last February, U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance launched a televised frontal attack on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the White House, telling him Ukraine had “no cards.”
Flurries of last-minute changes in alliances often happen just before great powers go to a great war