Merz Challenges Germans to Make a Bold Strategic Shift. Will They Do It?
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Merz Challenges Germans to Make a Bold Strategic Shift. Will They Do It?

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Germany’s centrist politicians are losing votes to the far right and the far left. They are losing faith in America, their longtime friend and protector. And they are rapidly losing what could be their best chance to address both those problems at once….

Putin Visits Kursk to Cheer Russian Troops Trying to Oust Ukraine
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Putin Visits Kursk to Cheer Russian Troops Trying to Oust Ukraine

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin, dressed in fatigues, visited a command post near the front in Kursk late Wednesday to cheer on his military’s ejection of Ukrainian forces from much of the territory they had been occupying in the Russian border region. The…

Putin Is ‘Carefully Studying’ Proposed Ukraine Cease-Fire
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Putin Is ‘Carefully Studying’ Proposed Ukraine Cease-Fire

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines As recently as January, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia emphatically rejected the idea of a temporary cease-fire in Ukraine. But after a month in which President Trump turned American foreign policy on its head and Russian forces made progress in a key…

Europe Weighs Peacekeeping Role in Ukraine Amid Trump’s Embrace of Russia
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Europe Weighs Peacekeeping Role in Ukraine Amid Trump’s Embrace of Russia

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines With anger in Europe mounting over President Trump’s perceived abandonment of the continent, President Emmanuel Macron of France gathered the chiefs of staff of more than 30 armed forces on Tuesday to review the formation of a multinational peacekeeping force to monitor any…

A Europe in Emotional Shock Grapples With a New Era
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A Europe in Emotional Shock Grapples With a New Era

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines For decades a core objective of the Soviet Union was to “decouple” the United States from Europe. Decoupling, as it was called, would break the Western alliance that kept Soviet tanks from rolling across the Prussian plains. Now, in weeks, President Trump has…

Alarmed by Trump, Poland Must Look at Nuclear Options, Premier Says
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Alarmed by Trump, Poland Must Look at Nuclear Options, Premier Says

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Warning that a “profound change of American geopolitics” had put Poland, as well as Ukraine, in an “objectively more difficult situation,” Prime Minister Donald Tusk of Poland on Friday said his country must drastically increase the size of its military and even “reach…

Opinion | Trump’s Foreign Policy May Be Crude, But It’s Realist
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Opinion | Trump’s Foreign Policy May Be Crude, But It’s Realist

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The destruction of U.S.A.I.D. Threats to make Canada the 51st state. The humiliation of Ukraine. What is going on with U.S. foreign policy? Some see it as driven by President Trump’s personal greed or fondness for dictators. Both might ring true, but neither…

European Leaders Look for Allies to Secure Ukraine-Russia Peace Deal
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European Leaders Look for Allies to Secure Ukraine-Russia Peace Deal

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Britain and France have promised to muster a “coalition of the willing” to secure a peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia. Now comes the acid test for Europe: How many countries will step up, and does that even matter, given Russia’s rejection of…

Some European Allies Fear Trump Is Out to Destroy Them
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Some European Allies Fear Trump Is Out to Destroy Them

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines During his first term in office, President Trump described the European Union “as a foe,” established “to hurt the United States on trade.” He repeated the charge at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, but in more vulgar terms: “The European Union was formed…