Mr Trump has been trying to orchestrate a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine to no avail. Earlier this week, he suggested "big egos" were making the negotiations challenging. Russia and Ukraine held their fi
Experts say the cause of the military conflict can be tied to a complicated history, Russia’s tensions with NATO and the ambitions of Vladimir Putin.
All the pressure now is on Moscow, and I think the Kremlin does want to keep the White House on side to ensure that US-Russia relations continue to soften. But I doubt it'll be a full ceasefire that Russia says Ukraine would use to rearm and will only agree to one if...
Russia chose a hot war and will get a cold one in the bargain.Ukraine follows the pattern of limited war in the nuclear age.Whatever some interpretations of Russian military doctrine might suggest, Moscow will not use nuclear weapons during the conflict. Since 1945, every leader of a nuclear...
airlines can’t overfly Russia as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. That means some flights aren’t viable at all, and others take longer and burn more fuel. Chinese airlines don’t face the same restrictions. Meanwhile, there’s not as much demand into Ch...
There is increasingly talk in the normally slavishly militarist Western media about the need for peace in both Ukraine and Gaza, a negotiated peace based on talking with the very enemies, Palestine and Iran and Russia, that they have been assiduously demonizing for the ...
This article examines the utility of this argument for the early round of talks between Russian and Ukrainian delegations, which took place during Russia's ongoing war of aggression against Ukraine in February and March 2022. Triangulating information from semi-structured interviews with country ...
In 2023, nearly 20 months into its war with Ukraine,the IOC suspended Russiawith immediate effect for violating the Olympic Charter by incorporating sports councils in four regions in eastern Ukraine. Russia appealed the decision at the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Switzerland, but it lost ...
With the Russia-Ukraine war showing no sign of ending, Kenya has adopted what political analysts refer to as “strategic ambiguity” to please the two protagonists and ensure the country benefits from both sides. Will the new approach succeed?
S. administration has reasons to keep fueling the already-strained Russia-Ukraine tensions: one is to use the crisis to divert domestic attention and build momentum for the upcoming mid-term elections; the other is to revive its influence over Europe by uniting its European allies against Russia...