American Committee for US-Russia Accord

An explosive new poll suggests that a majority of Ukrainians feel their future is more threatened by corruption in the government than by Russian military aggression.

The New York Times columnist depicts Ukraine as belonging in the ranks of the world’s great powers on pragmatic as well as ethical considerations. That is true militarily, in French’s view, not only because of Ukraine’s surprising tenacity in the face of Moscow’s brutal aggression, but because of the country’s tangible achievements in drone warfare and because it might possess “the largest and most battle-hardened land force in the Western world.”

I have said for a long time that the war in Ukraine will continue into 2027. Without a major rethink of policy on the European side, which currently appears extremely unlikely, or without a significant military escalation from the Russian side, which is possibly more likely, the war could in fact run on much longer than that.

What is it that has catapulted this 46-year-old blogger, TV host, participant in entertainment shows, and figure from high-society dramas to national fame?

In the established Western imagination, the Winter War of 1939–1940 occupies an honoured place as a moral fable: the small, plucky democracy resisting a totalitarian colossus, vindicated by skis, sniper rifles, and superior pluck. Today, with Kiev exhausted and Western capitals scouring history for usable analogies, the Finnish example is invoked with the regularity of a metronome. Resist Russia, the moral of the story runs, and the bear retreats.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday said he thinks the war with Ukraine could end soon.

“I think that the matter ⁠is coming to an end,” Putin told reporters, according to Reuters.

In Europe, the us exercises hegemony over what were, before 1945, its great-power rivals—in one case its former colonial master, now head servant.

Forty years on from Chernobyl, the catastrophe lingers in the public imagination as the worst nuclear disaster in history — a verdict reinforced by HBO’s mini-series and the Netflix retelling. But what if the lasting damage was not radiological but psychological: a global aversion to nuclear power that condemned Europe and North America to decades of energy precarity, dependence on Russian gas and American LNG, and the de-industrialisation now hollowing out Germany?

False historical narratives abound in our contentious and divided world, as leaders and complicit historians endeavor to use public understanding of the past to push policies and gain control in the present. One of the most egregious cases is the widely accepted account of the decision by U.S. leaders to drop the atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9 of 1945, respectively.

Just when sensible people might conclude that American or European members of Ukraine’s sycophantic fan club cannot become even more detached from reality, a prominent member of the club proves the opposite.  This time, it is conservative pundit David French, who wins the prize in his April 26, 2026, New York Times column, “Meet the New Leader of the Free World.”   That leader is Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.

War hysteria in Germany has reached a new level. Even churches are now preparing to serve the warmongers uncritically.

U.S. President Donald Trump has been very publicly aggressive in expressing his anger at NATO. He told NATO members they will “have to start learning how to fight for yourself” because “the U.S.A. won’t be there to help you anymore, just like you weren’t there for us.” Asked if he would reconsider U.S. membership in NATO, Trump replied, “Oh yes, I would say [it’s] beyond reconsideration.”

Veteran British journalist, Mary Dejevsky talks with former UK diplomat Ian Proud.

On February 28, 2026, Israel, with U.S. backing and perhaps operational support, ‘decapitated’ the leadership of the Islamic Republic of Iran by killing the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and two dozen more top Iranian leaders. The expectation stated explicitly by U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was the collapse of the Islamic regime and the installation of a U.S.- and Israeli-friendly or at least -compliant Iranian leadership. Two months later the Iranian Islamic Republic stands.

It is clear now that Ukraine will not become a full EU member next year. The €90 billion loan will not be repaid by Russia, a story that German Chancellor Friedrich Merz keeps telling to cover his own incompetent diplomacy.

There have been a remarkable number of contradicting numbers about Russian losses coming from the Ukrainians and their western partners.

In a rare acknowledgment of the public criticism, Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Kremlin officials saw the video and that “a lot of work is being done” on the issues Bonya mentioned. “None of it is being ignored,” Peskov said.

Skidelsky was an active member of the House of Lords, where he made the case for a negotiated peace between Ukraine and Russia. “We in the west cannot stop Ukrainians fighting to the death if they so wish, but to encourage them to do this by holding out the illusory hopes of victory is, to my mind, grossly immoral,” he said.