It emphasizes burden-sharing, questions the value of NATO’s open-door policy, and reframes Europe’s challenges through a domestic lens. With growing focus on the Western Hemisphere and Indo-Pacific, what does this mean for transatlantic security?
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Showing posts with label Russia. Show all posts
Monday, December 08, 2025
America’s New Doctrine: Europe on Its Own | David Dunn
Dec 5, 2025 | The newly released 2025 U.S. National Security Strategy signals a shift in Washington’s approach to Europe and NATO.
It emphasizes burden-sharing, questions the value of NATO’s open-door policy, and reframes Europe’s challenges through a domestic lens. With growing focus on the Western Hemisphere and Indo-Pacific, what does this mean for transatlantic security?
It emphasizes burden-sharing, questions the value of NATO’s open-door policy, and reframes Europe’s challenges through a domestic lens. With growing focus on the Western Hemisphere and Indo-Pacific, what does this mean for transatlantic security?
Steve Rosenberg: “Trump’s Not Their Daddy Anymore.” Russian Paper on Europe, over New US National Security Strategy
Sunday, December 07, 2025
Kremlin Hails Trump’s National Security Strategy as Aligned with Russia’s Vision
THE GUARDIAN: Moscow welcomes White House document critical of the EU as talks to end the Ukraine war enter a key phase
The Kremlin has heaped praise on Donald Trump’s latest national security strategy, calling it an encouraging change of policy that largely aligns with Russian thinking.
The remarks follow the publication of a White House document on Friday that criticises the EU and says Europe is at risk of “civilisational erasure”, while making clear the US is keen to establish better relations with Russia.
“The adjustments that we see correspond in many ways to our vision,” the Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, said on Sunday. He welcomed signals that the Trump administration was “in favour of dialogue and building good relations”. He warned, however, that the supposed US “deep state” could try to sabotage Trump’s vision.
It came as the White House’s efforts to push through a peace deal in Ukraine enter a key phase. US officials claim they are in the final stage of reaching an agreement, but there is little sign that either Ukraine or Russia is willing to sign the framework deal drawn up by Trump’s negotiating team. » | Shaun Walker in Kyiv | Sunday, December 7, 2025
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The Kremlin has heaped praise on Donald Trump’s latest national security strategy, calling it an encouraging change of policy that largely aligns with Russian thinking.
The remarks follow the publication of a White House document on Friday that criticises the EU and says Europe is at risk of “civilisational erasure”, while making clear the US is keen to establish better relations with Russia.
“The adjustments that we see correspond in many ways to our vision,” the Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, said on Sunday. He welcomed signals that the Trump administration was “in favour of dialogue and building good relations”. He warned, however, that the supposed US “deep state” could try to sabotage Trump’s vision.
It came as the White House’s efforts to push through a peace deal in Ukraine enter a key phase. US officials claim they are in the final stage of reaching an agreement, but there is little sign that either Ukraine or Russia is willing to sign the framework deal drawn up by Trump’s negotiating team. » | Shaun Walker in Kyiv | Sunday, December 7, 2025
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Aaron Parnas: Trump Abandons America and Sides with Russia in Stunning Decision
US May End Support for Ukraine War Effort, Says Donald Trump Jr
THE GUARDIAN: Eldest son of Donald Trump makes speculative comments during tirade against Volodymyr Zelenskyy and EU
Donald Trump may walk away from the Ukrainian war, the US president’s oldest son has said in comments to a Middle East conference.
In a lengthy tirade against the purpose of continued fighting in Ukraine, Donald Trump Jr also said Ukraine’s “corrupt” rich had fled their country leaving “what they believed to be the peasant class” to fight the war.
Trump Jr has no formal role inside his father’s administration, but is a key figure in the Maga movement. His intervention reflects the antipathy among some inside the Trump team towards the Ukrainian government, and comes as Trump’s negotiating team is putting pressure on Kyiv to give up territory.
Trump Jr said the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, was prolonging the war because he knew he would never win an election if it ended. He said Zelenskyy was a borderline deity on the left, but argued that Ukraine was far more corrupt than Russia. » | Patrick Wintour in Doha | Sunday, December 7, 2025
Donald Trump may walk away from the Ukrainian war, the US president’s oldest son has said in comments to a Middle East conference.
In a lengthy tirade against the purpose of continued fighting in Ukraine, Donald Trump Jr also said Ukraine’s “corrupt” rich had fled their country leaving “what they believed to be the peasant class” to fight the war.
Trump Jr has no formal role inside his father’s administration, but is a key figure in the Maga movement. His intervention reflects the antipathy among some inside the Trump team towards the Ukrainian government, and comes as Trump’s negotiating team is putting pressure on Kyiv to give up territory.
Trump Jr said the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, was prolonging the war because he knew he would never win an election if it ended. He said Zelenskyy was a borderline deity on the left, but argued that Ukraine was far more corrupt than Russia. » | Patrick Wintour in Doha | Sunday, December 7, 2025
Is Trump’s Strategy a Win for Russia? | Piotr Kaszuwara
Trump Is ‘Abandoning Europe’: Security Strategy Sparks Alarm in Ukraine
Dec 7, 2025 | “The Americans are going to commit geopolitical suicide.”
Trump’s national security strategy sets out how he is prioritising America’s interests, but is “abandoning Europe” in doing so, says Alexander Khara, a former advisor to the minister of defence in Ukraine.
Trump’s national security strategy sets out how he is prioritising America’s interests, but is “abandoning Europe” in doing so, says Alexander Khara, a former advisor to the minister of defence in Ukraine.
Tuesday, December 02, 2025
Putin Accuses Europe of Blocking US Efforts to End War in Ukraine
THE GUARDIAN: Russian president says European demands ‘not acceptable’ as key talks begin in Moscow with Witkoff and Kushner
Vladimir Putin has accused Europe of standing in the way of US efforts to end the war in Ukraine, as he began key talks in the Kremlin with Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff, and the US president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.
Witkoff, on his sixth trip to Moscow this year, is to present Putin with an updated version of a US peace proposal drafted with input from a senior Russian official and reworked to make it more acceptable to Kyiv.
The two Trump allies arrived in Moscow on Tuesday after meeting Ukrainian officials at the weekend in Florida to discuss revisions to the original 28-point peace plan, which overwhelmingly favoured Moscow.
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on a diplomatic push to rally support among European capitals that have backed changes to the original plan, said in Paris that the updated version of the proposal “looks better” but emphasised it was “not over yet”.
Moments before the closed-door meeting with Witkoff and Kushner, Putin made a series of hard-edged remarks. Speaking to reporters at the Kremlin, he accused European governments of sabotaging the peace process and said that “European demands” on ending the war in Ukraine were “not acceptable to Russia”.
“Europe is preventing the US administration from achieving peace on Ukraine,” Putin said, adding: “Russia does not intend to fight Europe, but if Europe starts, we are ready right now.” » | Pjotr Sauer | Tuesday, December 2, 2025
Vladimir Putin has accused Europe of standing in the way of US efforts to end the war in Ukraine, as he began key talks in the Kremlin with Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff, and the US president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.
Witkoff, on his sixth trip to Moscow this year, is to present Putin with an updated version of a US peace proposal drafted with input from a senior Russian official and reworked to make it more acceptable to Kyiv.
The two Trump allies arrived in Moscow on Tuesday after meeting Ukrainian officials at the weekend in Florida to discuss revisions to the original 28-point peace plan, which overwhelmingly favoured Moscow.
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on a diplomatic push to rally support among European capitals that have backed changes to the original plan, said in Paris that the updated version of the proposal “looks better” but emphasised it was “not over yet”.
Moments before the closed-door meeting with Witkoff and Kushner, Putin made a series of hard-edged remarks. Speaking to reporters at the Kremlin, he accused European governments of sabotaging the peace process and said that “European demands” on ending the war in Ukraine were “not acceptable to Russia”.
“Europe is preventing the US administration from achieving peace on Ukraine,” Putin said, adding: “Russia does not intend to fight Europe, but if Europe starts, we are ready right now.” » | Pjotr Sauer | Tuesday, December 2, 2025
Monday, December 01, 2025
Danger in the Baltics: The Threat from Russia | DW Reporter
Saturday, November 29, 2025
The Week Europe Realised It Stands Alone against Russian Expansionism
THE GUARDIAN: Washington’s Putin-appeasing plan for peace in Ukraine has failed, but many heard death knell sounded for European reliance on US protection
Kaja Kallas, the European Union foreign policy chief, asked her officials this week to dig up the number of times Russia had – in its various guises – invaded other states in the 20th and 21st centuries. The answer that came back was 19 states, on 33 occasions. Kallas, the former Estonian prime minister, was not just indulging in some form of historical mathematics. She was seeking to make a point that lies at the heart of the dispute between the US and Europe over Ukraine’s future, a dispute that has again revealed the chasm across the Atlantic about the true nature of the Russian regime.
Kallas reads history books as a leisure activity and – drawing on her own country’s history of Soviet occupation – has long maintained that the Soviet Union fell, but its imperialism never did. “Russia has never truly had to come to terms with its brutal past or bear the consequences of its actions,” she has said, arguing that the nature of the Russian regime means “rewarding aggression will bring more war, not less”: Putin will come back for more.
A similar warning was made this week by the German foreign minister, Johann Wadephul, who said: “Our intelligence services are telling us urgently: Russia is at least creating the option of a war against Nato by 2029 at the latest.” Putin is recruiting nearly one new division a month, Wadephul said, adding: “Divisions that are undoubtedly also targeting us, at the EU, at Nato.”
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has described Russia “as a constant destabilising power, trying to revise the borders to extend his power”. Putin, he said, is “a predator, an ogre at our gates who constantly needs to eat for his own survival”. In short, “he is a threat to Europeans”.
The British prime minister, Keir Starmer, told MPs: “We know that without that deterrence, [Putin] has the ambition to go again, and he will go again – and we must guard against that.” » | Patrick Wintour | Diplomatic editor | Saturday, November 29, 2025
Kaja Kallas, the European Union foreign policy chief, asked her officials this week to dig up the number of times Russia had – in its various guises – invaded other states in the 20th and 21st centuries. The answer that came back was 19 states, on 33 occasions. Kallas, the former Estonian prime minister, was not just indulging in some form of historical mathematics. She was seeking to make a point that lies at the heart of the dispute between the US and Europe over Ukraine’s future, a dispute that has again revealed the chasm across the Atlantic about the true nature of the Russian regime.
Kallas reads history books as a leisure activity and – drawing on her own country’s history of Soviet occupation – has long maintained that the Soviet Union fell, but its imperialism never did. “Russia has never truly had to come to terms with its brutal past or bear the consequences of its actions,” she has said, arguing that the nature of the Russian regime means “rewarding aggression will bring more war, not less”: Putin will come back for more.
A similar warning was made this week by the German foreign minister, Johann Wadephul, who said: “Our intelligence services are telling us urgently: Russia is at least creating the option of a war against Nato by 2029 at the latest.” Putin is recruiting nearly one new division a month, Wadephul said, adding: “Divisions that are undoubtedly also targeting us, at the EU, at Nato.”
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has described Russia “as a constant destabilising power, trying to revise the borders to extend his power”. Putin, he said, is “a predator, an ogre at our gates who constantly needs to eat for his own survival”. In short, “he is a threat to Europeans”.
The British prime minister, Keir Starmer, told MPs: “We know that without that deterrence, [Putin] has the ambition to go again, and he will go again – and we must guard against that.” » | Patrick Wintour | Diplomatic editor | Saturday, November 29, 2025
Trump to Hand Putin Ukraine’s Occupied Territories
THE TELEGRAPH: US president sends envoys to Moscow with peace plan that recognises Russia’s war gains
The United States is poised to recognise Russia’s control over Crimea and other occupied Ukrainian territories to secure a deal to end the war.
The Telegraph understands that Donald Trump has sent his peace envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner to make the direct offer to Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
The plan to recognise territory, which breaks US diplomatic convention, is likely to go ahead despite concerns among Ukraine’s European allies.
One well-placed source said: “It’s increasingly clear the Americans don’t care about the European position. They say the Europeans can do whatever they want.”
Russia’s president on Thursday said Washington’s legal recognition of Crimea and the Donetsk and Luhansk regions as Russian territory would be one of the key issues in negotiations over the US president’s peace plan.
The Kremlin on Friday said it had received a revised strategy for ending the war drawn up after emergency talks between Ukrainian and American officials in Geneva, Switzerland, last weekend.
An initial 28-point peace plan, formulated by Mr Witkoff after discussions with Russian officials, offered America’s “de facto” recognition of Crimea and the two eastern Donbas regions.
The strategy also proposed “de facto” recognition of Russian-held land behind the line of contact in Ukraine’s Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions after any ceasefire agreement. » | Joe Barnes, Brussels Correspondent | Friday, November 28, 2025
The United States is poised to recognise Russia’s control over Crimea and other occupied Ukrainian territories to secure a deal to end the war.
The Telegraph understands that Donald Trump has sent his peace envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner to make the direct offer to Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
The plan to recognise territory, which breaks US diplomatic convention, is likely to go ahead despite concerns among Ukraine’s European allies.
One well-placed source said: “It’s increasingly clear the Americans don’t care about the European position. They say the Europeans can do whatever they want.”
Russia’s president on Thursday said Washington’s legal recognition of Crimea and the Donetsk and Luhansk regions as Russian territory would be one of the key issues in negotiations over the US president’s peace plan.
The Kremlin on Friday said it had received a revised strategy for ending the war drawn up after emergency talks between Ukrainian and American officials in Geneva, Switzerland, last weekend.
An initial 28-point peace plan, formulated by Mr Witkoff after discussions with Russian officials, offered America’s “de facto” recognition of Crimea and the two eastern Donbas regions.
The strategy also proposed “de facto” recognition of Russian-held land behind the line of contact in Ukraine’s Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions after any ceasefire agreement. » | Joe Barnes, Brussels Correspondent | Friday, November 28, 2025
Friday, November 28, 2025
Trump Is ‘No Friend’ to Ukraine as Europe ‘Steps Up’ to Take Down Putin | Sir Bill Browder
Thursday, November 27, 2025
Leaked Witkoff Call Favours Russia in Ukraine Peace Plan Negotiations with Kremlin Official.
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Tuesday, November 25, 2025
Monday, November 24, 2025
What Level of Military and Political Support Can Russia Provide to the Maduro Regime? | DW News
Trump Is a Traitor - We Stand with Ukraine
Nov 24, 2025 | Donald Trump is trying to sell out Ukraine to appease Vladimir Putin. Trump is an American traitor who has been backed by dark Russian money for 40 years.
The question is, why has the US media, political, and military class turned a blind eye to the obvious? In this episode, Meidas Canada digs into Donald's unsavoury ties to Russia.
The question is, why has the US media, political, and military class turned a blind eye to the obvious? In this episode, Meidas Canada digs into Donald's unsavoury ties to Russia.
Saturday, November 22, 2025
Poland Aims to Train 400,000 Civilians amid Russian Threat | DW News
Friday, November 21, 2025
Wales Reform UK Ex-leader Jailed for Taking Russian Bribes
Nov 21, 2025 | Nathan Gill was once described as Nigel Farage's right-hand-man when both men sat in the European parliament.
Now the former leader of Reform UK in Wales has been jailed for 10-and-a-half years after admitting taking £40,000 in bribes to make pro-Russian statements in 2018 and 2019.
A Reform UK spokesman said: “Mr Gill’s actions were reprehensible, treasonous and unforgivable. We are glad that justice has been served.
Now the former leader of Reform UK in Wales has been jailed for 10-and-a-half years after admitting taking £40,000 in bribes to make pro-Russian statements in 2018 and 2019.
A Reform UK spokesman said: “Mr Gill’s actions were reprehensible, treasonous and unforgivable. We are glad that justice has been served.
Saturday, November 08, 2025
Trump Alienating His Base as He Neglects Domestic Issues for 'Adventurism'
Nov 6, 2025 | “Trump’s base is already getting concerned about his overseas adventures and taking his eye off the ball domestically.”
President Trump is seen by some as “gallivanting around the world” rather than dealing with issues such as inflation and food prices, says The Times’s assistant US editor David Charter.
President Trump is seen by some as “gallivanting around the world” rather than dealing with issues such as inflation and food prices, says The Times’s assistant US editor David Charter.
Sunday, October 26, 2025
Ben Norton: The Shocking Truth about America’s Plans for Venezuela
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