Donald Trump still doesn’t seem to have learned a thing about the Russian dictator he calls a friend. He’s tried all kinds of contradictory gambits in pursuit of peace in Ukraine: welcoming Vladimir Putin in Alaska,

Trump's Venezuela strategy targets Putin's allies, potentially creating leverage to end the Ukraine war through weakening Russia's client states.

It’s plainly time for President Trump to up the economic pressure on Russia to get Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table.

Vladimir Putin does not want a deal, and the sweetness of being begged to entertain one is something the Russian president relishes. Five hours of US President Donald Trump’s envoy and son-in-law meeting with the Kremlin head seemed to yield little publicly.

The Russian President's India trip comes as relations between Washington and Delhi remain strained, writes Harsh V. Pant.

MS NOW host Rachel Maddow said the Kremlin is running the United States' foreign policy in an interview on "The Late Show" with host Stephen Colbert. "You know, Russia is a podunk country," Maddow said to Colbert.

O N DECEMBER 4th, as The Economist went to press, Vladimir Putin was due to touch down in Delhi for the 23rd instalment of the India-Russia summit, an annual affair with many manly hugs and lots of bonhomie.

President Donald Trump said a meeting between his envoy Steve Witkoff and Russian President Vladimir Putin was “reasonably good” but acknowledged he doesn’t know what the outcome will be after successive rounds of talks over a deal to end the fighting in Ukraine.

Ukrainian member of parliament Lisa Yasko told CBS News the Russian president is using the discussions with the U.S. to push his vision of the new world order.

President Trump has just pardoned ex president Juan Orlando Hernandez of Honduras, convicted in 2024 in New York and sentenced to 45 years for accepting millions in bribes from, and partnering with, cocaine traffickers including Pablo Escobar in Mexico. Among other Trump pardons/commutations in 2025:

Opinion: Taken together, Trump’s policies towards Europe have an isolationist flavor with lack of clarity about U.S. commitments