American Committee for US-Russia Accord

Merkel believes the refusal by Poland and the Baltic States to pursue such a format encouraged Putin to take the path of full-on aggression

“Some at the European Council did not support that. They were primarily the Baltic States – Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia – but Poland was also against it because they feared that we would not have a common policy towards Russia,” she said.

In this eye-opening session, Irish MEP and activist Clare Daly exposes the harsh reality of Europe’s so-called “defense of democracy” policies. Labeled a “Russian propagandist” simply for speaking the truth, Daly takes aim at the European Union’s disinformation framework, hybrid sanctions, and systematic crackdown on dissent.

From pro-Palestinian journalists facing travel bans and asset freezes to citizens being punished for questioning COVID measures or NATO policies, Daly reveals how words and ideas are treated as weapons and how the EU is increasingly silencing voices that challenge its narrative. “If it’s them today, it’s you tomorrow,” warns Daly, emphasizing the urgency for citizens to organize, protect free speech, and hold European leadership accountable.

For the first time in several years, there is some positive movement between Russia and the United States on strategic arms control.  In late September 2025, Vladimir Putin proposed that Moscow and Washington agree to extend the New Start Treaty – which is set to expire automatically in February 2026 – for one year.  That crucial treaty caps the number of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) at 1,550 for each side.

Long-range Tomahawk missiles are on the agenda for discussion during Ukrainian President VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY’s visit to Washington this week, the Ukrainian leader said in his address to the nation today.

According to the Ukrainian leader, he and Trump have spoken in preparation for their in-person meeting. During those conversations, the two leaders have discussed both Patriot and Tomahawk missiles, along with other weapons, Zelenskyy said, adding that he plans to meet with U.S. defense companies.

The Ukrainian leader lauded Trump’s efforts to strike a peace deal between Israel and Hamas last week, saying that “there is very strong momentum for peace in the world right now,” and suggesting that the Middle East peace process shows that Putin could still be pressured to a similar deal.

Ukrainian Ambassador to the U.S. OLGA STEFANISHYNA told our own Felicia Schwartz that delegations from the two governments have participated in a “completely new format of engagement” to maximize success ahead of Friday’s top-level meeting between Zelenskyy and Trump.

Also on the agenda: discussing additional sanctions against Russia, bolstering Ukraine’s air defenses, boosting U.S.-Ukraine economic ties and announcing new arms deliveries to Ukraine under NATO’s Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List mechanism.

Meanwhile, Polish Foreign Minister RADOSŁAW SIKORSKI warned today that Europe should prepare for a Russian strike deep in the continent, and urged forward movement on the development of a “drone wall” along the bloc’s eastern flank. Sikorski also encouraged Trump to give Kyiv access to Tomahawk missiles.

President Donald Trump said Monday that he may supply Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine for its fight against Russia.

Last month, Lithuania’s former foreign minister Gabrielius Landsbergis pithily diagnosed Europe as being stuck in a perpetual geopolitical Groundhog Day. Landsbergis is quite correct, though for reasons that would leave him unsmiling.

NATO’s worst enemy is NATO itself, says the scholar Pascal Lottaz.

Cutting the European continent in half economically was an act of suicidal madness. The German economy is stagnating. Poverty and inequality are on the rise throughout the West. The United Kingdom is on the brink of collapse. France is not far behind. Societies and political systems are at a standstill.

Vladimir Putin gave a lengthy speech on October 2 before the 22nd annual meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club, often called “Russia’s Davos,” before answering questions for three hours

The self-proclaimed mediator in the Russia/Ukraine conflict, US President Donald Trump, has according to the Wall Street Journal given the green light to share US intelligence and targeting information with Ukraine to enable deep strikes into Russian territory. He is also reportedly considering sending Tomahawk missiles, which have a range of 1,500 miles and can carry nuclear weapons. Will Russia respond?

Generally in history, the Translatio Imperii has been accompanied and driven by great military catastrophes. With luck, this time that will not be necessary.

Hundreds of physicians from around the world have gathered in Nagasaki, Japan, this week, to discuss our shared belief that we can and should abolish all nuclear weapons.

International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) has won a past Nobel Peace Prize for this sort of work. In particular, the scientific arguments of the world’s doctors about the species-level threat of a nuclear war made a profound impression on Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, and convinced those Cold War leaders to jointly declare that “nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.”

NATO leaders and their supporters in the news media are responding to the rising tensions by reviving an idea from the earliest days of the Kremlin’s February 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine: imposing a no-fly zone over that country. It is an especially provocative and dangerous scheme that carries a serious risk of triggering World War III.

In most political and media circles in Washington, Brussels, Paris and London, arguments that refer to history have become pointless. Your interlocutors simply do not understand what you are talking about, and lack both the basic knowledge and the intellectual vitality to try to understand. People who do not know that the Russian-Ukrainian relationship (sometimes largely conflicted, sometimes largely consensual) has lasted for more than 400 years, for example, are unlikely to realise that in committing their countries to turn Ukraine into a military barrier against Russia, they are making a commitment not for generations but for centuries to come – a ‘commitment’ which is therefore meaningless and empty.

Talks to end the Russia-Ukraine war are now advancing at a frenetic pace following the August 15 summitbetween Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska. Discussions continue this week as members of the “coalition of the willing” meet in Paris to deliberate on so-called “security guarantees” for Ukraine. However, it remains uncertain whether agreed-upon measures will prove acceptable to Russia. There also remains the major sticking point of Putin’s demand that Ukraine withdraw from the rest of the heavily fortified Donetsk region as a precondition for agreeing to a ceasefire.

 A sense of normalcy in Ukraine’s capital masks deep and growing anxiety about the war with Russia. The dreadful weather, cold and rainy, doesn’t help.

The war has made it difficult for people to unwind. At night in the city center, attractive young people smoke slim cigarettes and drink pale lagers outside stylish bars—until the midnight curfew forces a premature last call.

In normal circumstances, or between countries with normal relations, this “incident” would hardly even be worth reporting

Ukraine must join the EU and is taking all necessary steps toward accession, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said at the Warsaw Security Forum on Monday.

Several days after calling for a more aggressive posture against Russia’s war with Ukraine, the Washington Post stated that signing a follow-on to the New START Treaty was “reckless.”  New START is actually the last remaining nuclear arms-control treaty between the United State and Russia and it is due to expire in February 2026.  New START is the only stepping stone to pursuing deeper cuts in the U.S. and Russian strategic arsenals as well as to pursuing serious arms control negotiations with China, which is currently growing its strategy arsenal at a record pace.