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Document prepared for Kremlin outlines hard-line negotiating stance The document, written in February by a Moscow-based think tank close to Russia’s Federal Security Service or FSB, lays out Russia’s maximalist demands March 12, 2025 at 3:02 p.m. EDTToday at 3:02 p.m. EDT 7 min An American flag at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow hangs next to an installation with the "Z" symbol used by the Russian army in Ukraine. (Maxim Shipenkov/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock) By Catherine Belton and Robyn Dixon Russia should work to weaken the U.S. negotiating position on Ukraine by stoking tensions between the Trump administration and other countries while pushing ahead with Moscow’s efforts to dismantle the Ukrainian state, according to a document prepared for the Kremlin. Get concise answers to your questions. Try Ask The Post AI. The document, written in February by an influential Moscow-based think tank close to Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), lays out Russia’s maximalist demands for a...

Trump Is Offering Putin Another Munich Trump risks repeating Munich mistake •100+The Atlantic by Robert Kagan / Mar 7, 2025 at 3:36 PM//keep Hitler regretted the deal he made with Neville Chamberlain at Munich in 1938. What he actually wanted was war—his goal was to conquer all of Czechoslovakia by force as a first step toward the conquest of all Europe. He didn’t imagine that the British and French governments would be so craven as to give him everything he publicly asked for, including the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia and the occupation of the Sudetenland by the German army. When they did, Hitler found himself trapped into accepting, but he was unhappy. Within five months he ordered the military occupation of all Czechoslovakia, in violation of the Munich agreement, and six months after that, he invaded Poland. Today the Trump administration is offering Vladimir Putin a Munich-like settlement for Ukraine. Trump’s negotiators have offered Putin almost everything he has public...

Trump and Vance Shattered Europe’s Illusions About America Zelenskyy clashes with Trump in White House •The Atlantic by Anne Applebaum / Mar 5, 2025 at 6:36 AM//keep unread//hide A book festival in Vilnius, meetings with friends in Warsaw, a dinner in Berlin: I happened to be at gatherings in three European cities over the past several days, and everywhere I went, everyone wanted to talk about the Oval Office performance last Friday. Europeans needed some time to process these events, not just because of what it told them about the war in Ukraine, but because of what it told them about America, a country they thought they knew well. In just a few minutes, the behavior of Donald Trump and J. D. Vance created a brand new stereotype for America: Not the quiet American, not the ugly American, but the brutal American. Whatever illusions Europeans ever had about Americans—whatever images lingered from old American movies, the ones where the good guys win, the bad guys lose, and honor defea...

The Strategic Crypto Swindle Trump announces US crypto reserve •46The Atlantic by James Surowiecki / Mar 4, 2025 at 2:54 PM//keep unread//hide Feedly AI found 1 Trend (Crypto) See Insights Card In the months between Donald Trump’s election and his inauguration, cryptocurrency prices soared on speculation that the president would appoint crypto-friendly regulators and set up a “strategic bitcoin reserve.” Trump has delivered on the regulatory front: The Securities and Exchange Commission has a new pro-crypto commissioner and has dropped or paused lawsuits against crypto exchanges. Trump also issued an executive order in his first week calling for an evaluation of the “potential creation and maintenance of a national digital asset stockpile.” Still, crypto prices fell sharply after he took office; the slide has intensified in the past couple of weeks. And that has caused considerable discontent among Trump’s major backers in the industry. So, in what certainly looked like an attempt to ...

Trump’s explosive clash with Zelenskyy: read the full transcript Meeting between US and Ukraine presidents descends into chaos at White House – here’s what they said, word for word Guardian staff and agencies in Washington Fri 28 Feb 2025 16.22 EST Share A meeting between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy veered sharply off track in front of the television cameras as the US president berated his Ukrainian counterpart then abruptly called off a minerals deal with that he had said would be the first step towards a ceasefire with Russia. Here are the highlights, word-for-word, of the conversation between Trump, Zelenskyy and Vice-President JD Vance in the Oval Office. Zelenskyy: What kind of diplomacy, JD, are you are asking about? What do you mean? Vance: I’m talking about the kind of diplomacy that’s going to end the destruction of your country. Zelenskyy: Yes, but if you … Vance: Mr President, with respect, I think it’s disrespectful for you to come to the Oval Office and try ...

At Least Now We Know the Truth Trump and Vance undermine Ukraine •29KThe Atlantic by David Frum / Feb 28, 2025 at 12:00 PM//keep unread//hide Sign up for Trump’s Return, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump presidency. At least the Oval Office meeting held by President Donald Trump and Vice President J. D. Vance with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was held in front of the cameras. False friendliness in public by Trump and Vance, followed by behind-the-scenes treachery, would have been much more dangerous to the Ukrainian cause. Instead, Trump and Vance have revealed to Americans and to America’s allies their alignment with Russia, and their animosity toward Ukraine in general and its president in particular. The truth is ugly, but it’s necessary to face it. Today’s meeting gave the lie to any claim that this administration’s policy is driven by any strategic effort to advance the interests of the United States, however misguided. Trump and Vance displayed in ...

The Great Resegregation The Atlantic by Adam Serwer / Feb 22, 2025 at 6:24 AM//keep unread//hide Feedly AI found 2 Companies View All The nostalgia behind the slogan “Make America great again” has always provoked the obvious questions of just when America was great, and for whom. Early in the second Trump administration, we are getting the answer. In August, speaking with someone he believed to be a sympathetic donor, one of the Project 2025 architects, Russell Vought, said that a goal of the next Trump administration would be to “get us off of multiculturalism” in America. Now Vought is running Donald Trump’s Office of Management and Budget, and the plan to end multiculturalism is proceeding apace. Much of the chaos, lawlessness, and destruction of the past few weeks can be understood as part of the administration’s central ideological project: restoring America’s traditional hierarchies of race and gender. Call it the “Great Resegregation.” [From the January/February 2024 issue...