Section: US & Canada
Lessons for the World from Trump’s Win
By Ashutosh SheshabalayaAn emerging market perspective on a presumed American cataclysm.Donald Trump’s “surprise” victory in the U.S. elections should be a wake-up call for pundits and pollsters everywhere. It marks a turning point, less from the post-Second World War order than from two-and-a-half centuries of Enlightenment thinking, which...
Ukraine’s Savchenko Urges Trump To ‘Strengthen’ Sanctions Against Russia
Ukrainian lawmaker Nadia Savchenko has urged U.S. President-elect Donald Trump to “strengthen sanctions” against Russia. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Russia Says Apprehends Ukrainian ‘Saboteur Group’ In Crimea
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) says it has apprehended three suspected members of a Ukrainian “saboteur group” in Russian-annexed Crimea. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Trump’s election boosts Kremlin hopes for better relations
MOSCOW (AP) — In careful phrasing befitting the spy he once was, Vladimir Putin has made it clear he expects a great deal from President-elect Donald Trump. And, the billionaire businessman may expect a transactional relationship with Putin. Although the Kremlin clearly detested Hillary Clinton, Putin’s public statements on Trump’s...
After Trump’s Win, Putin Adviser Reveals: ‘Maybe We Helped a Bit With WikiLeaks’
Click here for reuse options! Our allies fear for the safety of NATO. One of Vladimir Putin’s advisers boasted that Russian hackers might have helped Donald Trump defeat Hillary Clinton.Putin has dismissed claims by U.S. authorities that Russia had interfered with the American election by hacking Clinton and the Democratic National...
The Double-Edged Sword of Armenia’s New Nuclear-Capable Missiles
Image: Russian Iskander missiles on the 9P78-1 Transporter erector launcher at the Victory Day Parade rehearsal in Moscow in 2010. (Author: A. Savin / CC BY-SA 3.0 Wikimedia Commons) As someone who loves Armenia, my first response to the news that my country had purchased advanced Russian missiles capable of hitting targets hundreds of kilometers...
Trump’s victory will put pressure on Liberals to boost defence spending say analysts
Donald Trump’s election victory will put pressure on the Liberal government to boost defence spending, rethink participation in the U.S. missile defence shield, and could affect some of its high profile missions such as in eastern Europe. Department of National Defence officials in Ottawa are working on an analysis of what a Trump...
World leaders react to Trump victory with apprehension and applause
HARI SREENIVASAN: Now the view from overseas. The election was watched closely, both with anticipation and fear. And, as chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Warner reports, today, the rest of the world awoke to an America profoundly changed. MARGARET WARNER: The stunning news ricocheted around the world from Tehran to Tokyo, Istanbul to...
11 questions for President-elect Donald Trump
From his calls to jail his opponent to his conflicting statements about barring Muslims from the United States, America’s next president has provoked a striking number of questions about how he would govern. Here is an early — and surely incomplete — list of some of the biggest:1. Will he seek to prosecute Hillary Clinton?Trump has egged on...
What will foreign policy look like under President Trump?
Now that Donald Trump is becoming the 45th president of the United States, people are wondering if the U.S. will pull back on global trade. Will Trump roll back the nuclear agreement with Iran? How will he confront the Islamic State group? Will Russia become the U.S.’s new best friend? We asked a number of analysts for their thoughts on the...
