Vladimir Putin

Ukraine Claims Historic Underwater Strike on Russian Submarine as Moscow Denies Damage Ukraine says it has carried out a landmark naval strike inside a major Russian Black Sea base, using an underwater drone to hit a missile-capable submarine docked at Novorossiysk, a claim Russia flatly rejects. According to Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU), the December 15

Trump and Russia: What the Evidence Shows and Why the Pattern Matters The record on Trump and Russia does not rely on rhetoric, speculation, or partisan framing. It is built on documented findings, public behavior, and policy outcomes that have remained consistent over time. When stripped of exaggeration, the picture is still troubling, not because

Trump’s Foreign Policy Is So Pro-Russia It Looks Like Putin Wrote It “The Age of America Alone.” That’s the White House’s new foreign policy doctrine and the most shocking part isn’t the isolationism. It’s how closely the entire National Security Strategy mirrors the worldview of Vladimir Putin. The Trump administration’s newly released 33-page National Security

Rubio Blasts Trump’s Ukraine Peace Plan as “Russia’s Wish List” as White House Pressures Kyiv to Accept Concessions Donald Trump’s newly unveiled Ukraine–Russia peace proposal is triggering fierce backlash at home and abroad, with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio warning fellow lawmakers that the plan reads like “Russia’s wish list” a striking rebuke coming

Putin-Influenced Deutsche Bank: How a Compromised Lender Became Trump’s Lifeline After the Casino Collapse Here’s the story the public keeps circling but never fully states: Donald Trump’s casino empire imploded in the 1990s, wiping out vast amounts of capital and leaving him radioactive on Wall Street. Every major American lender, Citi, JPMorgan, Merrill, Bear Stearns,

What Does Putin Have on Trump? A Deep Look at the Evidence, the Strategy, and the Stakes “Russia ran a multi-faceted influence campaign to help elect Donald Trump.” — U.S. Intelligence Community Assessment, January 6 2017 For nearly a decade, journalists, investigators, and intelligence professionals have pursued one burning question: why does Donald Trump treat

Putin’s Endgame: The Kompromat Question and How Russia May Try to Humiliate Trump, and America, One Last Time “I couldn’t shake the suspicion that Putin had something on Trump.” — Former Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, quoted in Bob Woodward’s Rage The Shadow Strategy Vladimir Putin doesn’t need to outgun the United States to

In Putin’s Pocket: Pam Bondi’s First Move as Attorney General Was to Kill America’s Russian Money-Laundering Task Force A Radical Break on Day One Pam Bondi had barely warmed her new chair as U.S. Attorney General when she made a stunning announcement: the Department of Justice’s Task Force KleptoCapture, the unit created to hunt down

Russia Escalates Provocations as NATO Allies Scramble in Response to Mass Strikes on Ukraine Russia’s war in Ukraine veered dangerously closer to NATO territory this weekend, with massive overnight strikes triggering air defense alerts in Poland and new airspace violations in Estonia. The dual provocations mark one of the most serious escalations in Moscow’s confrontation

Trump’s Only Path to a Peace Prize “If Donald Trump really wants to stop the bleeding from Jeffrey Epstein and finally grab the Nobel Peace Prize he’s been whining about for years, there’s only one option: unleash America’s F-22s, rally NATO’s F-35s, and control Ukraine’s skies like it’s Top Gun 3: MAGA Boogaloo.” – Patrick

A Dark Era Defined by Two Men Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin have come to symbolize the modern authoritarian movement — one rising from the depths of corruption in American politics, the other from the iron-fisted Kremlin. They are the avatars of two different nations with eerily similar trajectories: dismantled checks and balances, weaponized propaganda,

Trump Calls Putin After White House Meeting With Zelenskyy and European Leaders, Pitches Direct Peace Talks “Everyone is very happy about the possibility of peace for Russia/Ukraine.” — President Donald Trump Trump Steps Into Center Stage of War Diplomacy WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday said he called Russian President Vladimir Putin from the

Putin Punks Trump: Moscow Stalls on Zelenskyy Summit Despite Trump’s Pressure Campaign “Step by step, gradually” — Russia’s foreign minister made it clear that any meeting between Putin and Zelenskyy will be dragged out, leaving Trump’s big peace push in limbo. Trump’s Summit Pitch Meets Moscow’s Stonewalling Donald Trump walked out of his White House

Trump and Vance Now Need the Man They Humiliated, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, to Save Their Presidency WASHINGTON, D.C. — In one of the most striking reversals in modern diplomacy, Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance now find themselves dependent on the very man they once publicly humiliated: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. What was once a

Zelensky Brings Europe’s Heavyweights to Trump’s White House, With Ukraine’s Survival on the Line WASHINGTON, D.C. — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy didn’t walk into the White House alone on Monday. He brought with him the full weight of Europe’s leadership, a calculated show of force designed to keep Donald Trump from cutting a backroom deal

Trump Treated Putin Like Royalty and Came Away With No Deal A Grand Welcome for a Wartime Autocrat Russian President Vladimir Putin received the kind of reception usually reserved for America’s closest allies when he landed at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska on Friday. A red carpet was rolled out. A U.S. military jet flyover

Trump Rolls Out the Red Carpet for Putin, Walks Away Empty-Handed on Ukraine Cease-fire JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — President Donald Trump staged his most high-profile diplomatic play yet to end Russia’s war in Ukraine, greeting Vladimir Putin with the kind of pomp usually reserved for America’s closest allies. He left with no ceasefire, no

Trump Enters Putin Meeting From the Weakest Possible Position “This isn’t a high-level negotiation. It’s a high-risk photo op with the U.S. President walking in unprepared, overextended, and politically cornered while Vladimir Putin arrives with leverage to burn.” Tomorrow’s summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska, is shaping up less like a

Inside the Dictator Bubble: How Putin and Kim Jong Un Turn Paranoia into Fortress-Level Security When your enemies include the CIA, defectors, your own military, and possibly your own chef you don’t just hire a bodyguard. You build a fortress, plant spies, scrub metadata, and ride in a bulletproof train with its own underground tunnel.

Trump Reverses Course on Ukraine, Sends Patriot Missiles in Break with Putin In a move that stunned both allies and adversaries, President Donald Trump announced Sunday that the United States will send Patriot missile defense systems to Ukraine, marking a sharp departure from his earlier stance on the Russia-Ukraine war and signaling a potential realignment