Hardeep Matharu dissects what the now infamous Oval Office meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky revealed about the American President’s approach – and speaks to political scientist Brian Klaas about why his ‘alternative realities’ don’t stack up against real-world complexities
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For all its chaos in operation, Trump's regime has a strategic rationale and must be fought strategically, argues Jon Bloomfield
Zarina Zabrisky explores the cultural and political tensions of a country caught in the crossfire of global conflict
"Let the Trumpists come and spend a few days [here] and feel, hear, and see how Putin 'wants peace'" a mother of a fallen Ukrainian soldier tells Kris Parker
With the increasingly bizarre compliance of the US President to the Russian President, Zarina Zabrisky wonders if the KGB/FSB tradition of assassination and mafia-style intimidation may be key
With the US potentially allied to Russia over the fate of Ukraine, there needs to be a root and branch rethinking of British and European security
The former senior diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall sees signs of Trumpist culture wars and a woeful lack of realism in the opposition leader's foreign policy set piece speech
The spread of war in Europe is now a greater possibility than it has been since the height of the Cold War, writes AC Grayling
Zarina Zabrisky explores Trump’s new alliance with Putin and the dark economic and ideological forces behind this new phase in the war
Chris York explores the mood in the capital as Ukrainians try to make sense of the US President’s support for the Kremlin