A 33-page document. One signature. And a worldview that could redefine how power works in 2026. Donald Trump’s National Security Strategy is not just another policy paper, it reads like a declaration.

Liberal democracies view Putin’s Russia as a bully – and Trump’s US as an angry drunk with a bazooka. The response is pure venom, say Henry Farrell and Sergey Radchenko of Johns Hopkins ...

Putin characterized the Anchorage event in August as "very good." LONDON -- U.S. President Donald Trump's August summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska, is looming large as ...

U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin shake hands at the end of a joint press conference after participating in a U.S.-Russia summit in Anchorage, Alaska, on Aug. 15, 2025.

In wanting its own sphere of influence in the same vein as China and Russia, the U.S. is prizing power over principle ...

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European leaders have refused to accept the new geopolitical reality, stumbling forward and  hoping Russia will just give up, ...

January, President Vladimir Putin’s “special military operation” in Ukraine will have dragged on longer than the war on the Eastern Front that ended with the fall of Berlin in May 1945.

I hope Special Envoy Steve Witkoff made some progress toward ending the Russian invasion of Ukraine when he met with President Vladimir Putin in Moscow earlier this week. This barbaric war must end. I ...