Section: US & Canada
Thirty days of Donald Trump
Donald Trump has now been President for 30 eventful days. So much has happened, so quickly, that it has been hard to keep track. Therefore, we have collected the most notable events in one easy to read chart. January 20 President Trump gives unusually dark Inaugural Address that is immediately labeled the “American Carnage Speech” U.S. President...
Europe: A Warning from a Friend
Toward the end of my latest Q&A, I make an observation about Jean-François Revel: One of the reasons he wrote his books was to wake people up — to warn them, before it was too late. I believe there is something of that about James Kirchick’s new book, The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age.Kirchick is my...
In Europe, Pence says U.S. will hold Russia accountable
MUNICH — Vice President Mike Pence vowed Saturday that the United States will “hold Russia accountable” even as President Donald Trump searches for new common ground with Moscow at the start of his presidency. RELATED LINKSSen. Klobuchar wants to know why Trump administration is ‘eager’ for Russia connection Secretary of State Rex Tillerson...
Mike Pence Promises the World: We Will ‘Hold Russia Accountable’
(MUNICH) — Vice President Mike Pence vowed Saturday that the United States will “hold Russia accountable” even as President Donald Trump searches for new common ground with Moscow at the start of his presidency. Pence, in an address to the Munich Security Conference, also offered assurances to European allies that the U.S. “strongly supports”...
Ukraine’s Euromaidan Protests Happened Here
It’s been three years since Ukraine’s Euromaidan protesters took the streets of Kyiv to demand the resignation of pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych. RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service has returned to locations in the Ukrainian capital that saw some of the fiercest clashes. Between February 18 and 21, 2014, protests descended into...
Tillerson assured Ukraine of US solidarity, Poroshenko says
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Pence pledges the US’ unwavering support for NATO and will stay ‘faithful’ to Europe
ReutersUS Vice President Mike Pence on Saturday sought to assure allies that the Trump administration will back NATO and stand with Europe even as it looks for new ways to cooperate with Russia. In the first major foreign policy address for the new administration of President Donald Trump, Pence warned allies that they must pay their fair share...
Is NATO Good For US? Vice President Mike Pence Maintains Strong Support For Alliance, Urges Others To Pay Their Fair Share
UPDATE: 7 a.m. EST — Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov addressed the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, calling for a new world order to replace the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which he reportedly said was “an institution of the Cold War in its mind and its heart.” At the conference where world leaders like Angela Merkel...
Trump, Putin and Flynnghazi: The president’s apparent reversal on Russia and Crimea isn’t all that hard to understand
(Credit: Reuters/Sergei Karpukhin/Getty/Win McNamee) While the aftershocks of Flynnghazi continue to roil Washington, something has changed in the Trump administration’s policy toward Russia. Candidate Trump famously promised to review the status of Crimea, reassess American commitments to NATO and look into weakening the sanctions on...
Lavrov Says Russia Wants Military Cooperation With NATO, ‘Pragmatic’ U.S. Ties
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says the “post-Cold War order” has come to an end but that Cold War thinking persists among some leaders in the West. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
