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Opinion editor and columnist at Politico Europe.
it’s less Lend-Lease and more like the unequal treaties imperial Western powers forced on China in the 19th century.
Trump would only help a neighbor for profit
The U.S. president doesn’t see the benefit in helping allies — and its visible in the deal he’s trying to foist on Ukraine.
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March 31, 2025 at 6:34 AM
it’s less Lend-Lease and more like the unequal treaties imperial Western powers forced on China in the 19th century.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has spent years eroding democracy, stifling dissent and purging the country’s army and civil service. Now, it looks as though he’s chosen this geopolitical moment to bury the legacy of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the secular founder of the Republic of Turkey.
Erdoğan seizes geopolitical moment to snuff out democratic opposition
The Turkish president has chosen to bury the legacy of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the secular founder of the Republic of Turkey.
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March 23, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has spent years eroding democracy, stifling dissent and purging the country’s army and civil service. Now, it looks as though he’s chosen this geopolitical moment to bury the legacy of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the secular founder of the Republic of Turkey.
Offering the diplomatic bare minimum, the Russian leader said he would hold off striking at Ukraine’s energy infrastructure — a self-serving concession as that will save Russia’s system from being hit by the Ukrainians, who’ve boosted the range of Neptune missiles.
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Trump fails to get Putin to stop the shooting
Russia insists on terms to end the war that spell the end of democratic Ukraine, and has followed up the Trump call with an assault on Kyiv.
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March 18, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Offering the diplomatic bare minimum, the Russian leader said he would hold off striking at Ukraine’s energy infrastructure — a self-serving concession as that will save Russia’s system from being hit by the Ukrainians, who’ve boosted the range of Neptune missiles.
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The war is exacerbating a demographics decline that had already started well before Putin ordered his troops across the border.
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The depopulation of Ukraine
The war is exacerbating a demographics decline that had already started well before Putin ordered his troops across the border
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March 14, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The war is exacerbating a demographics decline that had already started well before Putin ordered his troops across the border.
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Four senior members of Donald Trump’s entourage have held secret discussions with some of Kyiv’s top political opponents to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, just as Washington aligns with Moscow in seeking to lever the Ukrainian president out of his job.
Top Trump allies hold secret talks with Zelenskyy’s Ukrainian opponents
As Washington ramps up its pressure on Zelenskyy to step aside, his rivals are talking to Trump’s team.
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March 6, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Four senior members of Donald Trump’s entourage have held secret discussions with some of Kyiv’s top political opponents to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, just as Washington aligns with Moscow in seeking to lever the Ukrainian president out of his job.
U.S. President Donald Trump regularly gives Putin the benefit of the doubt. But Europeans — especially those living near Russia or who have endured Soviet occupation — do not.
Unlike Trump, Europe can’t afford to take Putin at his word
Vastly differing views of the Russian leader’s geopolitical ambitions are fueling the transatlantic divide.
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February 28, 2025 at 8:18 AM
U.S. President Donald Trump regularly gives Putin the benefit of the doubt. But Europeans — especially those living near Russia or who have endured Soviet occupation — do not.
US allies that regularly share intelligence with the U.S. are looking at ways to safeguard top-secret information from what they expect to be a very leaky Trump administration — but their options are limited.
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The Trump administration is leaky with intel. Allies still have to work with it.
Foreign intelligence officials are treading carefully as they navigate a president with a history of spilling secrets.
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February 21, 2025 at 11:13 AM
US allies that regularly share intelligence with the U.S. are looking at ways to safeguard top-secret information from what they expect to be a very leaky Trump administration — but their options are limited.
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Trump-Putin bromance now targeting Zelenskyy - to make up for what Russian assassins failed to achieve the past three years.
Ukrainian hopes fading as Trump and Putin embrace
Zelenskyy has tested a variety of tactics to try and manage the U.S. president — but nothing seems to be working.
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February 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Trump-Putin bromance now targeting Zelenskyy - to make up for what Russian assassins failed to achieve the past three years.
U.S. President Donald Trump wants to take over Gaza and transform it into the “Riviera of the Middle East” where “the world’s people” can live.
Everyone but Palestinians, that is.
Everyone but Palestinians, that is.
Trump’s Gaza fantasy is a recipe for a forever war
U.S. president is pressing countries to take in Palestinians by threatening to cut aid, but it’s too dangerous for Arab leaders to accept that blackmail.
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February 5, 2025 at 2:55 PM
U.S. President Donald Trump wants to take over Gaza and transform it into the “Riviera of the Middle East” where “the world’s people” can live.
Everyone but Palestinians, that is.
Everyone but Palestinians, that is.
Ukrainian officials fear an alignment between Washington and Moscow could shut them out of the discussion about their country’s future.
Ukraine freaks out as US and Russia push for elections
Ukrainian officials fear an alignment between Washington and Moscow could shut them out of the discussion about their country’s future.
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February 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Ukrainian officials fear an alignment between Washington and Moscow could shut them out of the discussion about their country’s future.
Washington and Kyiv are holding fast to separate assumptions about the prospect of ending the ongoing war — but both could be wrong.
Ukraine is pinning hopes on Putin exasperating Trump
Washington and Kyiv are holding fast to separate assumptions about the prospect of ending the ongoing war — but both could be wrong.
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January 28, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Washington and Kyiv are holding fast to separate assumptions about the prospect of ending the ongoing war — but both could be wrong.
Kuleba insisted that Russian President Vladimir Putin was in no mood to strike a deal, and said Trump instead risked collapsing Ukrainian front lines if the new U.S. administration starved Kyiv of weapons.
Trump can’t deliver a peace deal, says ex-Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kuleba
In a grim interview, Kuleba contrasts the West’s reluctance to send weapons to North Korea’s commitment to send troops.
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November 27, 2024 at 7:21 AM
Kuleba insisted that Russian President Vladimir Putin was in no mood to strike a deal, and said Trump instead risked collapsing Ukrainian front lines if the new U.S. administration starved Kyiv of weapons.
Short of a “forever war” or Western powers becoming combatants themselves — or at least putting their economies on a war footing to supply Ukraine with much more than they currently are — the cold hard reality is there has to be a deal.
Trump threatens to be good for Ukraine, actually
There’s secret relief in some European quarters — and even Kyiv — that Donald Trump might bring the war to a close. And he’s far more likely to get a better deal from Moscow.
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November 16, 2024 at 7:30 AM
Short of a “forever war” or Western powers becoming combatants themselves — or at least putting their economies on a war footing to supply Ukraine with much more than they currently are — the cold hard reality is there has to be a deal.