Putin, Trump and Ukraine
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MICHAEL KIMMAGE is Professor of History at the Catholic University of America. He is the author of Collisions: The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability.
But his frustration with Putin has grown. Last week, the president said the United States was taking “a lot of bullshit” from Putin. Today, he authorized a significant shipment of U.S. defensive weapons to Ukraine via NATO and threatened Russia with new tariffs if the war does not end in 50 days.
President Donald Trump seems to have learned the lesson painfully gleaned by all his 21st-century predecessors: You can’t reset US relations with Vladimir Putin.
Melania Trump has highlighted Russia's continued attacks on Ukraine in private conversations, President Trump said on Monday.
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A section of party leaders from the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), led by Deputy Party Leader Godfrey Osotsi, met leaders of the United Russia Party, a political outfit linked to President Vladimir Putin, in Moscow, Russia.
Ever since his political rise a decade ago, Donald Trump has sung the praises of Vladimir Putin -- the Russian president was a "strong leader" who, perhaps more important, would
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The Observer on MSNDonald Trump has finally tired of PutinSitting next to the Nato chief Mark Rutte in the Oval Office, Trump expressed frustration with Vladimir Putin and unveiled a weapons plan that would see European countries buy US arms and transfer them to Ukraine.