Russia has repeatedly painted modern Ukraine as a Nazi state, in a crass distortion of history. Putin had already seized Ukraine's Crimean peninsula eight years earlier, after a revolution that ousted Ukraine's pro-Russian president and replaced him with a more pro-Western government.

Now America is attempting to force a resolution to the war, investors must try to gauge the consequences of its success or failure. The most obvious shifts have been in the markets for European assets,

Donald Trump is giving us whiplash with his Russia stance. His MAGA sycophants knew all along that his central economic proposal was a sham, but they repeated his lies. And now the economy is cracking.

President Trump is looking for more than just a mineral deal with Ukraine. Trump wants Ukrainian President Zelenskyy to change his attitude toward peace talks and to have a willingness to make concessions to Russia,

US President Donald Trump has stated that no one has been as tough on Russia as he has. Source: Trump in an interview with Fox News, as reported by European Pravda Details: Trump was responding to criticism that he is siding with Moscow in Russia's war against Ukraine.