The US president in a meeting with high-tech business executives where he announced that American forces had seized a tanker off the coast of Venezuela.
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And what does America’s new national security strategy mean for Europe?
‘All for one and one for all’: unfortunately for Ukraine and the coalition of the willing, Trump’s America is not part of this calculation.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reacts during a joint news conference with the Irish Taoiseach Micheal Martin in Dublin, Ireland, on Dec. 2, 2025.
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The Ukraine peace plan negotiated between the U.S. and Russia is a non-starter for Ukraine, and also puts the country in the unenviable position of saying no to a mercurial American president.
Vladimir Putin says Russia is ready to fight Europe if necessary.
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Does Putin actually want to end the war in Ukraine?
A Ukrainian soldier walks through Kostyantynivka, a city in the Donetsk region of Ukraine that has been badly damaged by the war.
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Stefan Wolff, University of Birmingham and Argyro Kartsonaki, Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy, University of Hamburg
What today’s diplomats can learn from the Dayton accords.
A mural on the wall of a Kyiv apartment building depicts Saint Javelin, an internet meme and fictional character, cradling the FGM-148 Javelin anti-tank weapon that the Ukrainian army used against Russian troops, in February 2024. Saint Javelin was born as a meme and became a symbol of resistance against Russia.
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Ukrainian memes are a testament to Ukraine’s ongoing resistance to Russia and a powerful force in contemporary Ukrainian nationalism
Volodymyr Zelensky and his wife Olena Zelenska commemorating victims of the Holodomor, the Russian-imposed famine which devastated Ukraine in the 1930s.
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History tells us that any deal that doesn’t come with cast-iron security guarantees for Ukraine is not worth the paper it is written on.
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha, left, and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio attend a G7 session on Ukraine and defence co-operation during the G7 Foreign Ministers meeting in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., on Nov. 12, 2025.
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Expectations for peace between Russia and Ukraine should be tempered until there’s a presidential summit between Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Vladimir Putin and until their signatures are on a treaty.
Ukraine has had security guarantees before.
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In 1994 Russia and Kyivs western allies signed the Budapest Memorandum guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty. It wasn’t worth the paper it was written on.
Vladimir Putin’s demands are unacceptable to Ukraine.
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The plan proposed by the US and Russia appeared to reflect Vladimir Putin’s original war aims.
Ukrainians bring candles, flowers, and toys to the site of a Russian strike on a high-rise residential building in Ternopil, Ukraine, on November 21.
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Once again, Trump has proven he is more interested in long-term deals with autocrats than achieving just and lasting resolutions to security crises.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, center, with U.S. delegation members faces the Ukrainian delegation during discussions in Geneva on Nov. 23, 2025, on a plan to end the war in Ukraine.
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In a war that’s lasted almost four years, a former diplomat says it’s not realistic to say, ‘In the next week, come up with a very complicated peace deal, sign off on it and it’s going to stick.’
A Ukrainian serviceman walking in a damaged area of the frontline city of Kostyantynivka, in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine.
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The latest European commission report on Ukraine’s EU accession points to problems with corruption and intimidation of journalists.
U.S. President Donald Trump greets Russian President Vladimir Putin before an ostensible peace meeting in August 2025 in Alaska.
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The aborted Hungarian summit between Putin and Trump reflects more on how Putin has tried to manage his relationship with Trump to gain other geopolitical benefits.