U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, the newly minted Time Person of the Year, gave an extensive interview to the magazine that was vague on top geopolitical issues, and when asked if he trusted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he said he does not trust anyone.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, who campaigned on the promise to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours once he took office, called for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine, stating that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Kyiv would “like to make a deal and stop the madness.”
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken made it clear last week that the Biden administration wants Ukraine to lower its conscription age so it can pull together the manpower to try and take on the advancing Russians.
After nearly two years of fighting its war with Ukraine, Russia’s economy is feeling the pressure.
Russian President Vladimir Putin last week warned that Moscow has escalation capabilities in Ukraine and its next targets could be a wide range of military facilities and decision-making centers in Kyiv that Moscow could “turn to dust.”
Boris Johnson, the former British prime minister who has emerged as a major Russia hawk, said in an interview last week that the West is fighting a proxy war with Russia through Ukraine and the biggest problem has been the reluctance to escalate the conflict.
Unfortunately, a machine has not yet been developed that can take one back in time and undo terrible mistakes being made due to lack of appreciation of possible downstream consequences of certain actions.