Trump Vowed to End the Ukraine War Before Taking Office. The War Rages On.
|

Trump Vowed to End the Ukraine War Before Taking Office. The War Rages On.

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines After they win elections and move into the White House, plenty of presidents at some point eventually break a campaign promise. Donald J. Trump will not even wait that long. He will break an important campaign promise the moment he takes the oath…

Azerbaijan’s Leader, Emboldened, Picks a Rare Fight With Putin
|

Azerbaijan’s Leader, Emboldened, Picks a Rare Fight With Putin

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines It was a tense conversation between two authoritarian leaders accustomed to getting their way. President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia was offering explanations for the Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash that had killed 38 people days earlier. Perhaps it was a flock of birds,…

Russians make fast progress in Ukraine as overstretched armies scramble to resist
|

Russians make fast progress in Ukraine as overstretched armies scramble to resist

ByNews Polite

Russia’s army has made fast progress in Ukraine over the past week, seizing 90 square miles of territory and making military advances at the fastest clip since invading its western neighbor nearly three years ago. The gains in territory equal a territory roughly the size of four Manhattans, and have…

The increasingly murky prospect of an end to Putin’s Ukraine war
|

The increasingly murky prospect of an end to Putin’s Ukraine war

ByNews Polite

How is the Ukraine war going to end? This question bedevils smaller arguments over Western aid to the brave Ukrainian forces. Bringing it into tighter focus is Vladimir Putin’s decision to pass the winter with ever-more-brutal strikes on Ukraine’s infrastructure and civilian targets — such as last Saturday’s murderous missile…