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Russia Defeat Unlikely This Year says U.S. General

It is unlikely that Ukraine will recover all its internationally recognized sovereign territory this year, according to America’s highest-ranking general. The claim was made by General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, during an interview with Defense One, a U.S.-based outlet that specializes in military coverage. Russia has seized substantial chunks of […]

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Biden slaps new economic sanctions on Russia

On the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the United States is hammering Russia with a new round of economic sanctions designed to undermine the country’s ability to continue to wage war. The U.S. Treasury Department on Friday announced deep-cutting new sanctions targeting the metals and mining sector of Russia’s economy. In coordination with […]

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Ukraine was a rallying cry in the 2022 State of the Union. In 2023, not so much

In his State of the Union speech a year ago, President Biden launched almost immediately into a scathing critique of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “menacing ways” for invading Ukraine. But this year, it took more than an hour before Biden talked about the war, calling the Russian invasion “a test for America.” A year into […]

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Is Putin bluffing over West’s escalation?

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Kremlin officials have warned multiple times over the 11 months since the invasion of Ukraine started that Western inference could result in an escalation. However, the United States and other Western allies of Ukraine have repeatedly crossed Putin’s supposed red lines. “If the territorial integrity of our country is threatened, […]