History must be on the side of the peacemaker, not the invader.” For his part, Trump seemed ready to drop his exaggerated claims for repayment of the money gifted to Ukraine by the Biden administration,

A new administration’s efforts to pressure the news media, punish political opponents and tame the nation’s tycoons evoke the early days of President Vladimir V. Putin’s reign in Russia.

The wider deal between Washington and Moscow is also likely to play more in the latter’s favor. It satisfies the Russians’ fictional narrative that they are in an unprovoked war against all of NATO. It gives them peer status with the US again ...

President Trump’s abrupt and enthusiastic embrace of Russia and its authoritarian leader, Vladimir Putin, is propelled in part by a strategic desire to drive a wedge between Moscow and Beijing, two powers that have long sought to end U.

On a visit to the White House on Monday, the French president is expected to detail proposals by Paris and London to deploy troops in Ukraine to guarantee a ceasefire. A plan that presupposes the support of the US.

His arrival comes as Russia makes gains on the battlefield across the front and Washington pursues a rapprochement with the Kremlin.

Though Keir Starmer is touting the trans-Atlantic “special relationship” that has endured since World War II, he faces an uncertain reception.