BERLIN — News this month that the number of German soldiers declaring themselves conscientious objectors rose fivefold in the wake of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine created little more than a ripple in Germany. For many Germans it’s perfectly natural for members of the Bundeswehr, the army, to renege on the pledge they made to…
The West is using the wrong analogy for Russia’s invasion—and worsening the outcome.
Europe’s American president: The paradox of Ursula von der Leyen European Commission chief’s top-down approach has endeared her to Washington but alienated colleagues in Brussels. By Suzanne Lynch and Ilya Gridneff Illustration by Lucas Peverill for POLITICO Ursula von der Leyen’s whirlwind tour of the United States started in New York at the United Nations General…
PARIS/BERLIN — Thirty years after the horrors of the Balkan wars laid bare Western Europe’s incapacity to deal with conflict on European soil, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is demonstrating how little has changed. As Yugoslavia started to break apart in 1991, it fell to the Luxembourgish Foreign Minister Jacques Poos to make the ill-fatedly optimistic…
Biden once scolded George W. Bush for pledging to defend Taiwan. Now he is making a worse mistake by chipping away at long-standing policy without a better alternative.
How Gorbachev’s political legacy was destroyed by Putin Era of detente and arms control between Washington and Moscow has been replaced by a bloody war in Ukraine Live reaction: tributes from world leaders after Mikhail Gorbachev’s death Mikhail Gorbachev lived long enough to see everything he had tried to achieve crumble or get blown up. The era…
The Guardian view on the US in Africa: a better tone, but what next? Editorial Though the secretary of state struck the right note on his three-nation tour, it will take more than rhetoric to strengthen partnerships on the continent The only way was up. When Donald Trump wasn’t denigrating “shithole countries”, his administration showed little…
Blinken makes case for democracy at start of sub-Saharan Africa tour Secretary of state tells reporters in South Africa that US ‘not trying to outdo anyone’ amid growing influence of Russia and China Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, has appealed to “governments, communities and peoples” across Africa to embrace Washington’s vision of democracy, openness…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Former security officials insist that the United States made every effort to integrate Russia, rejecting claims that America “tried to humiliate” the former Soviet Union. “I will go out on a limb here and say that I think everybody from the Clinton administration to the Bush administration, to…
Out of the total promised, eight HIMARS have already been delivered to Ukraine. | Evan Vucci/AP Photo By Lara Seligman 07/08/2022 01:34 PM EDT Updated: 07/08/2022 02:35 PM EDT President Joe Biden has approved sending a new type of precision-guided artillery round to Ukraine that the administration believes will give Kyiv a technological edge in its battle…