In Trump, many see a president who has abandoned the traditional US view of a rules-based world order in favour of a nationalist, great power game with Moscow and Beijing. That has caused panic on a c

Speaking in Munich last week, America’s vice-president, J.D. Vance, offered a taste of how the home of fine wines, classical architecture and welfare cheques faces humiliation, when he ridiculed Europe as decadent and undemocratic.

We are at that moment in Animal Farm when the gentle carthorse Clover looks through the window to see the pigs playing cards and drinking a toast with men.

The first test would be to refuse a capitulation in Ukraine.” The problem is whether Europe is able to rise up to what European leaders now call its biggest security challenge in generations. Doing so would require an immediate increase in military spending,

The U.S. offered a draft U.N. resolution that stops far short of a competing European-backed statement demanding an immediate withdrawal of all of Moscow's forces from Ukraine.

President Donald Trump last week indicated that discussions had started around a summit to address how to end the Ukraine war.

The fate of Trump’s push to end the war will ultimately rest on whether his swift pace can accommodate critical details of a peace that allows Ukraine to survive, secures the bo

Such a solution would conjure a cruel historical irony. Putin, who watched in despair from his post as a KGB officer in Dresden as the Soviet Union dissolved, may be on the verge of creating a new East Germany in 21st century Europe with America’s help.