While we were being distracted by the ongoing Russia/Ukraine war - and Washington's increasing involvement in the war - tremendous developments in the Middle East have all but ended decades of US meddling in the region.
On 24 February 2023, the Chinese Foreign Ministry released a twelve-point plan entitled 'China's Position on the Political Settlement of the Ukraine Crisis'.
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A video of the confrontation was shared by CodePink, a left-wing anti-war organization with a long history of confronting politicians over foreign policy.
"President Biden, I hate to bother you -- we need to end this war in Ukraine," the protes
A Monday article at Politico makes the case that Donald Trump will likely be running as the peace candidate among individuals vying to be the 2024 Republican presidential nominee.
The US and its NATO partners have committed to providing the country with military aid for as long as it needs to win the war, all the while urging Kiev not to negotiate with Moscow.
On the same weekend that Russia angered the West by pulling out of the UN-brokered grain export deal, which allowed Ukraine to ship its wheat and food supplies to global markets via an internationally monitored safety corridor, the Kremlin has floate
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that Moscow was open to talks with the the US or with Turkey on ending the war in Ukraine, claiming that US officials are lying when they say Russia has been refusing peace talks.
Taiwan's president has ruled out armed confrontation with China, saying that her government is willing to engage with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to reach a "mutually agreeable arrangement."
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday signed a decree that ruled out any talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, declaring they would be an "impossibility."
Tesla and Space-X chief Elon Musk got a taste of the vitriol delved out to anyone who challenges the Ukraine narrative, as his Tweeted proposal to begin discussions on ending the Russia-Ukraine war was incinerated by pro-Ukraine Twitter users. Ukrain
Bottom line, neither Putin nor Zelensky can afford to sign a ceasefire/peace deal because of internal politics--though for each's foreign relations, they need to seem to be trying to.
Ukrainian negotiator Mykhailo Podoliak confirmed in a message posted to Twitter on Tuesday that "negotiations are ongoing" after the meeting was "paused" the day prior.
In an interview with Reuters, Dmitry Peskov, Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman for decades, made a startling offer. Moscow could end the Ukraine war immediately, said Peskov, if four conditions were met.
...Neighboring Countries. Foreign Minister issues appeal to West: "To those abroad scared of being 'dragged into WWIII'. Ukraine fights back successfully. We need you to help us fight."
-- Expect Signed Deal In "Next Few Days"
While we saw as recently as Friday what happens when the market gets overly optimistic that a Ukraine ceasefire is imminent, only to get the rug pulled from underneath it just hours later ...
...on the Belarus border after Putin put his nuclear deterrent forces on 'alert', furious at 'aggressive NATO' and being ejected from Swift banking community
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