Donald Trump's decisions to halt U.S. military aid and the sharing of intelligence with Ukraine could have "catastrophic" ramifications, said Simon Schama.

Historians like to play a parlor game called periodization, in which they attempt to define an era, often by identifying it with the individual who most shaped the times: the Age of Jackson, the Age of Reagan. Usually, this exercise requires many decades of hindsight, but not so in the 21st century.

President Trump’s admiration for President Vladimir Putin of Russia has been endlessly dissected, but the American leader’s policy shifts since taking office again could have profound effects.

Silent shock and audible groans ran through many Ukrainian New Yorkers last month when President Donald Trump called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a “dictator.” Those same reactions occurred several days later at the Oval Office when Trump and Vice President J.

Pat McFadden has distanced the UK from Donald Trump’s claim that it’s easier to get on Russia than with Ukraine. The US president is pushing for a quick peace deal to end the Ukraine war and has upended the united western approach by aligning himself more with Vladimir Putin than with Kyiv.

Recent troubling actions by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth—under former President Trump’s guidance—to halt active cybersecurity measures against Russia have brought this chilling scenario into sharp focus.

China has made it pretty clear this week that US President Donald Trump can do whatever he wants with Russia, but he’s not breaking up the Xi Jinping-Vladimir Putin bromance. In a call on Monday, Xi told Putin their relationship isn’t changing,

And his negotiations with President Trump about Ukraine are not just about Ukraine. Putin wants nothing less than to reorganize the world, the way Joseph Stalin did with the accords he reached with Franklin D.

Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed Alexander Darchiev, a veteran diplomat known in the past for public denunciations of the West, as ambassador to the United States on Thursday to lead a rapprochement that has stunned Ukraine and European countries.

Europe is staring down the barrel of a stark new reality where the United States being the backbone of NATO – the alliance that has guaranteed the continent’s security since 1949 for almost 80 years – is no longer a given.