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‘Grasping for Straws’: Europe Floats Ukraine-Russia Buffer Zone in Push for Peace
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European leaders are weighing the creation of a 40 kilometer buffer zone between the Russian and Ukrainian frontlines as part of a peace deal, a last-ditch idea Moscow has emb...
By Jim Townsend
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Defense / Transatlantic Security
Experts Urge Caution as NORAD Intercepts Russian Spy Planes 4 Times in WeekFor the fourth time in a week, a Russian spy plane has been intercepted by U.S. Air Force F-16s near Alaska, according to North American Aerospace Defense Command. The most re...
By Tom Shugart
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In Marathon Meeting, Trump Enjoys a Playbook More Familiar Abroad
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In President Donald Trump’s longest on-camera appearance of his second term, he soaked up credit from his Cabinet as he moved to assert personal dominance over more and more a...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Did Putin Outplay Trump at Alaska Summit? What Russia’s Response to Peace Proposals Tells Us
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The hype created and the hope raised following the Alaska summit, when US President Donald Trump hosted his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, seem to be dying down. Sharp di...
By Nicholas Lokker
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Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Behind India’s Massive Russian Oil Imports: Asia’s Richest ManUnited States President Donald Trump’s additional 25 percent tariff on India for its imports from Russia, saying it is helping fuel Russia’s war in Ukraine, has put the South ...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Defense / Transatlantic Security
For Putin, 'Security Guarantees' on Ukraine Mean Something DifferentRussia, Ukraine and European powers have all emerged from meetings with President Donald Trump in support of establishing security guarantees as part of a broader agreement to...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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Did Trump Really End Six — or Seven — Wars?
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President Donald Trump is not just trying to end the vicious war in Ukraine. He’s claiming he’s already ended almost one war for each month of his second term — spanning the M...
By Celeste Wallander
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Defense / Transatlantic Security
Trump's Russia-Ukraine Talks Raise Two Conditions Key to Ending WarThe fast-moving developments in President Donald Trump's near-back-to-back summits with the heads of Russia, Ukraine and European powers have raised two items increasingly pos...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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After Alaska Summit, Europeans Worry Trump Will Pressure Ukraine
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After the much-ballyhooed summit in Alaska, anxious Europeans (including Ukrainians) believe the worst did not happen. President Trump did not agree to hand over chunks of Ukr...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Trump’s Rush for Ukraine Peace Deal May Leave Details up to Putin
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President Donald Trump arrived at his historic summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in this breezy Alaskan city with a clarion goal in mind: a halt to years of bloody ...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Donald Trump Fails to Secure Ukraine Deal at Alaska Summit with Vladimir Putin
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Donald Trump failed to secure any commitment from Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine after a summit in Alaska that began with fanfare but ended in anticlimax....
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Trump and Putin Have Different Goals for Anchorage Summit
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Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will measure success at their summit in Alaska very differently, even as both leaders are already looking toward a second meeting....
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Trump’s Meeting with Putin Could Determine the Trajectory of the Russia-Ukraine War
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U.S. President Donald Trump is meeting face-to-face with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday for a high-stakes summit that could determine not only the trajec...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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Anxiety Grips Kyiv And Brussels Ahead Of Trump-Putin Summit In Alaska
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As Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump prepare to meet in Alaska for a high-stakes summit to discuss ending the 41-month-old war in Ukraine, a feeli...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor
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What Trump and Putin Want From the Alaska Summit
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“Putin actually doesn’t need to achieve much from this meeting, other than the meeting itself and not having to make any concessions,” Celeste Wallander, an adjunct senior fel...
By Celeste Wallander
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Defense / Transatlantic Security
German Military Targets 8,300 Drone Systems, Lagging NATO AlliesThe German military is looking to secure 8,300 drone systems by the end of the decade, far fewer than some of its NATO allies aim for, as spending on unmanned defense systems ...
By Franz-Stefan Gady
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Defense / Transatlantic Security
Pentagon Faces 'Wake-Up Call' To Meet Drone Innovation Highlighted In Ukraine WarWhen a U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone loitered over Baghdad airport in the early hours of January 3, 2020 and fired a Hellfire missile that killed the powerful Iranian Major General Q...
By Stacie Pettyjohn
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Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security / Energy, Economics & Security
Trump Slaps 'Secondary Tariff' on India Over Russian Oil TradeU.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday followed through on a threat to punish India for buying Russian oil, slapping a 25% "secondary tariff" on all U.S. imports from the wo...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Defense / Transatlantic Security / Technology & National Security
Ukraine Bets Big on Interceptor Drones as Low-Cost Air Shieldhen President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said at the end of last month that Ukraine needs $6 billion to fund the production of interceptor drones, setting a target of 1,000 a day, he...
By Samuel Bendett
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Indo-Pacific Security / Transatlantic Security / Middle East Security
The Anti-U.S. Axis Isn’t Dead, Just RestingJune was a bad month for the theocrats in Tehran, what with all those Israeli and American bombs falling on them. It also seemed — at least superficially — to be a setback for...
By Richard Fontaine, Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Nicholas Lokker
