USA TODAY Opinion asked U.S. Army Col. Yevgeny (Eugene) Vindman to give his assessment of developments in Ukraine’s war with Russia. Vindman, along with his twin brother, Alexander Vindman, served on the National Security Council during the Trump administration. They raised concerns about President Donald Trump’s phone call to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in 2019;…
When I moved to the Netherlands five years ago, I thought I knew what to expect.After all, my parents are Dutch, I spoke the language, and I had traveled to Holland more times than I could count.But after living in the US my entire life, there were still a few things I had to get…
Russian officials said they want a written guarantee that sanctions related to its invasion of Ukraine will not impact the country’s trade with Iran if the nuclear deal is restored, the Wall Street Journal reports.Driving the news: The U.S. and Iran are close to reaching a deal to bring back the 2015 Iran nuclear pact,…
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says he thinks that countries like France would “probably not” put up a fight against a Russian invasion.”A lot of other places around the world, they just fold the minute there’s any type of adversity,” DeSantis told reporters at an event at the University of South Florida in Tampa on Wednesday.…
On the night of President Joe Biden’s first State of the Union address, in which the president called for unity against both foreign and domestic threats, why would a fellow Democrat feel compelled to deliver a progressive response?Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib spoke on behalf of not the Democratic Party but the Working Families Party, in…
Biden champions the rights of LGBTQ Americans and calls for the bipartisan Equality Act to pass Congress and to arrive at his desk for signature.Video TranscriptJOE BIDEN: And folks, for LGBTQ-plus Americans, let’s finally get the Bipartisan Equality Act to my desk. The onslaught of state laws targeting transgender Americans and their families is simply…
BRUSSELS (AP) — Within days, Russian President Vladimir Putin has achieved what remained out of the grasp of the European Union for many decades — to jointly buy and send weapons to a war zone — and restored something that was broken for years — trans-Atlantic unity.For years, Putin could sit back and relish in…
Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, said Sunday that “it just makes me ill” to see people inside of the Republican Party praise Russian President Vladimir Putin as he wages war against Ukraine. Romney even went as far as to describe it as “almost treasonous” to side with Putin.”A lot of those people are changing their stripes…
H.R. McMaster, who served as former President Trump’s national security adviser, said on Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin “got a lot more than he bargained for” when he invaded Ukraine last week.Appearing on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” McMaster said Ukrainian forces have done a “tremendous” job.”I think Putin got a lot more than he…
The conservative commentator Monica Crowley, a former Trump administration aide, on Saturday said that a presidential run by former first lady Michelle Obama would put Republicans in “a very difficult position.””If they [Democrats] were to run Michelle Obama, that would put us in a very difficult position because they’d reach for a candidate who is…