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4 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Mark Toth |Jonathan Sweet
Tulsi Gabbard should check her ‘Iran Nuke’ Signal group — if such a thing exists or existed. Why? Because Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appears to have entered the group chat and has led her astray.
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4 weeks ago | 
ca.news.yahoo.com | Mark Toth |Jonathan Sweet
Tulsi Gabbard should check her ‘Iran Nuke’ Signal group — if such a thing exists or existed. Why? Because Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appears to have entered the group chat and has led her astray.
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4 weeks ago | 
thehill.com | Mark Toth |Jonathan Sweet
Tulsi Gabbard should check her ‘Iran Nuke’ Signal group — if such a thing exists or existed. Why? Because Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appears to have entered the group chat and has led her astray.
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4 weeks ago | 
kyivpost.com | Jonathan Sweet |Mark Toth
US negotiators met with their Russian counterparts in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Monday morning to discuss a potential ceasefire and peace deal to end the war in Ukraine. They came away with neither. Talks focused on creating safe commercial shipping lanes in the Black Sea. Initially, on Tuesday, even that appeared to have failed. Vladimir Chizhov, told Russian media that no agreement would be announced given Ukraine’s position.”Follow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official.
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1 month ago | 
thehill.com | Mark Toth |Jonathan Sweet
On Monday, 94 Ukrainian civilians — 23 of them children — learned the hard way how Russian President Vladimir Putin views the ceasefire negotiations in Saudi Arabia between Washington and Moscow. The 94 were injured during a Russian attack that hit a children’s hospital in Sumy. Putin is using the negotiations with the Trump Administration as a license to kill not only Ukrainian soldiers but also innocent men, women and children, whom he intentionally targets in civilian population centers.
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1 month ago | 
thehill.com | Jonathan Sweet |Mark Toth
Over the weekend, the U.S. took a different approach to the Yemen problem. It launched airstrikes against Houthi rebel positions in response to a warning the Houthis would target “Israeli” ships traveling through Mideast waterways like the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea. On Sunday morning, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth commented in an interview that “This campaign is about freedom of navigation and restoring deterrence.
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1 month ago | 
kyivpost.com | Jonathan Sweet |Mark Toth
Washington is quickly being taught what Kyiv already knows. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine is being fought by an ‘Axis of Evil.’ Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, Chechnya – and yes, even the Houthis – are allies.
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1 month ago | 
thehill.com | Mark Toth |Jonathan Sweet
In the opening months of the war in Ukraine, we warned about the strange case of Dr. Vladimir and Mr. Putin. Duality of purpose and multifaceted end states have always been central to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s calculus and decisionmaking. Controlling Ukraine and its mineral riches is his immediate goal as the would-be Don of the Donbas. But Putin’s broader geostrategic goal also includes dismantling NATO.
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1 month ago | 
thehill.com | Jonathan Sweet |Mark Toth
Until Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin was singing the equivalent of the Frank Sinatra song “My Way” in Ukraine. That remains to be seen, as President Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, heads to Moscow this week. Putin had made it clear on Mar. 6 that Russia does not intend to “give in to anyone” or make any compromises in future peace negotiations.
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1 month ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Mark Toth |Jonathan Sweet
World War III began on February 24, 2022, when Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine. While the hot war is largely contained to Ukraine and the Kursk Oblast in Russia, it is now threatening to engulf the entire European continent. Ukraine, backed by the US and NATO, is at war with Russia, who is supported by Belarus, China, Iran, North Korea, and Chechnya.
