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Krisjanis Karins, visiting Minnesota, says that Putin "will go as far as he is allowed to go."

President Joe Biden hoped to use the NATO and G7 summits to win new support for Ukraine from U.S. allies. Abortion rights and gun tragedies took over.

President Biden is heading to Europe, leaving a nation in turmoil over abortion rights to take on dueling missions abroad: find ways to lower food and gas prices while keeping allies unified in their pressure campaign against Russia’s war in Ukraine.Biden’s meetings over the next week with the Group of Seven (G-7) nations and NATO allies

As Europe navigates the green transition and an increased urgency to find safe, reliable energy, how can the transatlantic partners foster greater energy independence?

John Allen, the retired Marine Corps four-star and president of the Brookings Institution think tank, failed to disclose his work for the Qatari government and allegedly lied to federal investigators about it when asked.

China and India pursue "their own advantage," allowing "Russia to continue earning revenues from energy exports amid EU extending embargoes," expert says.

Civilians. and russian troops are pushing deeper into the region. this is the city of slovyansk, where three people have been killed in a russian missile strike. ukraines president zelensky has been talking about the situation in the donbas in his daily address. translation: the direction of the situation in the donbas is very complicated. given the presence of large—scale chemical production intranets, the russian army strikes there, including blind air bombing are just crazy. in his address,...

The long—term? the long—term ? sanctions bite the long—term? sanctions bite in the long—term. the problem you identify is not the long—term, it is the immediate term, which is that putin is going for victory on the battlefield. sanctions arent going to stop him, weapons may. our policy that relies just on sanctions isnt going to work, but a policy that relies on sanctions for the medium and longer term, and sending weapons to the ukrainians right now has a chance. the ukrainians are fi...

Ability to backup the european union sanctions with threats of sanctions of its own against governments, including china and india, if they pick up the slack. there are different ways in which the us could do it, they could do a price, they could do various — there are various options, but youre absolutely right that to avoid the russians figuring out how to circumvent the european union sanctions, the us can come in and back them up, and i think the us is considering its options right now. da...

It is not yet clear whether Elon Musk’s increasingly precarious play for Twitter will result in the restoration of free speech in the “global public square.” Successful or not, Elon’s brave move [...]