US Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggested that Ukraine would have to cede some of its territory to Moscow to secure a peace ...
Western security officials said Russian President Vladimir Putin has no intention to compromise on demands on land, ...
He wanted to overthrow the pro-Western government and return Ukraine to Russia's sphere of influence. Putin failed, but more than three years on a fifth of Ukrainian territory is in Russian hands ...
In the second half of the nineteenth century, the American government decided to exploit the immense resources and vast spaces of the western territories, the so-called Far West. These lands ...
Another factor was territorial expansion. The South wished to take slavery into the western territories, while the North was committed to keeping them open to white labor alone. Meanwhile ...
"As for the governments of some of our neighbors, Poland, nationalist elements there dream of taking back their so-called historical territories, seizing the western territories that Ukraine ...
"Gaining control over the western territories of modern Ukraine, over the so-called former Eastern Borderlands, has been a long-cherished dream of Polish nationalists. And this has become an ...