Section: US & Canada
Q&A: Duško Marković, the Prime Minister Stuck Between Putin and Trump in the Balkans
As the U.S. presidential elections were approaching last year, voters in the tiny Balkan nation of Montenegro liked to say that they deserved to cast a ballot at least as much as any American. They were only half joking. Like many people in Eastern Europe wedged between the dueling interests of Russia and the West, the outcome of the U.S. race...
Donald Trump’s best-ever, not crazy executive order
President Donald Trump, flanked by Vice President Mike Pence and Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, signs his first executive order on health care, Friday, Jan, 20, 2017, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) A broken clock is right twice a day. Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while. Not all executive...
Trump meets the press
Popular vote loser Donald Trump is holding a press conference, ostensibly to announce his new Department of Labor nominee since the last one took his ball and went home. But after another morning of unhinged Twitter rants from Agent Orange, who knows what we’ll see. Thursday, Feb 16, 2017 · …read more Source: Daily...
Top Trump envoys signal no quick changes to U.S.-Russia ties
BRUSSELS — The Trump administration signaled Thursday there will be no change soon in U.S.-Russian relations, putting the onus on Moscow to prove itself if it wants closer cooperation with Washington. Russia’s support for Ukrainian separatists was underscored as a test case of its willingness to change behavior. At a NATO meeting in...
Tillerson, Lavrov discuss Ukraine, Syria in first meeting
Andrew V. PestanoFeb. 16 (UPI) — U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had his first meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in which they discussed conflicts in Syria and Ukraine. …read more Source: United Press...
Tillerson Tells Lavrov To Honor Ukraine Commitments
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov that Moscow must adhere to its commitments to “de-escalate the violence” in Ukraine. They met on February 16 on the sidelines of a G20 meeting of foreign ministers in Bonn, Germany. (AP) …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
NATO European Allies to Jointly Buy Planes, Set Up New Elite HQ
By Robin Emmott BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European NATO allies agreed on Thursday to jointly buy planes and submarines and possibly open a new command headquarters for elite troops as Europe seeks to show the United States it is serious about its own security. In signing ceremonies at NATO, defense ministers from France and Germany said they will buy...
Top Trump envoys signal no quick changes to U.S.-Russia ties
The Trump administration signalled Thursday there will be no change soon in U.S.-Russian relations, putting the onus on Moscow to prove itself if it wants closer co-operation with Washington. Russia’s support for Ukrainian separatists was underscored as a test case of its willingness to change behaviour. …read more Source: CTV...
Top Trump envoys signal no quick changes to US-Russia ties
BRUSSELS (AP) – The Trump administration signaled Thursday there will be no change soon in U.S.-Russian relations, putting the onus on Moscow to prove itself if it wants closer cooperation with Washington. Russia’s support for Ukrainian separatists was underscored as a test case of its willingness to change behavior. At …...
The secretary of defense appears to be making his own Russia policies
At home, President Trump is flailing in the face of three separate scandals stemming from his administration’s close ties to the Kremlin. Abroad, his own appointees are busy creating another problem — brazenly undermining his stated policy on Russia in trips to foreign countries. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, who said that the list of...
