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1 week ago | 
thehill.com | Mark Toth |Jonathan Sweet
Team Trump has a growing Iranian problem. Tehran’s latest purported nuclear offer — a farcical proposal to pause uranium enrichment for a year in exchange for the release of Iranian frozen funds and Washington’s recognition of Iran’s right to enrich uranium for civilian and energy purposes — is an obvious strategic non-starter for both the U.S. and Israel. As Freedom for the Defense of Democracies President Mark Dubowitz posted on X, “Do [the Iranians] think we’re that stupid?” Apparently so.
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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Mark Toth |Jonathan Sweet
Team Trump has a growing Iranian problem. Tehran’s latest purported nuclear offer — a farcical proposal to pause uranium enrichment for a year in exchange for the release of Iranian frozen funds and Washington’s recognition of Iran’s right to enrich uranium for civilian and energy purposes — is an obvious strategic non-starter for both the U.S. and Israel. As Freedom for the Defense of Democracies President Mark Dubowitz posted on X, “Do [the Iranians] think we’re that stupid?” Apparently so.
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1 week ago | 
kyivpost.com | Jonathan Sweet |Mark Toth
Shortly after his two-hour phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin last Monday, President Donald Trump told reporters, “This isn’t my war. We got ourselves entangled in something we shouldn’t have been involved in.” Then, in his post phone call discussion with European leaders, he allegedly said, “I think Vladimir does not want peace.”Follow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official.
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1 week ago | 
kyivpost.com | Jonathan Sweet |Mark Toth
The Biden Administration’s strategy of “just enough” for Ukraine – i.e., not enough to win – is now being adopted in a similar form by Europe. Kyiv is burning, yet again. On Friday evening into the early hours of Saturday, Russia unleashed a massive drone and missile attack on the Ukrainian capital. “Just enough” is not only a losing strategy. It is also immoral and leading to further senseless Ukrainian civilian deaths. Follow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official.
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2 weeks ago | 
thehill.com | Jonathan Sweet |Mark Toth
Retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg told Fox News journalist Dana Perino a few weeks ago that “Russia’s not winning this war. Russia has not made any major advances in the last year and a half.”But you would not know that based upon President Trump’s Monday phone call to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Threats of economic sanctions and resumption of military aid to Ukraine fell by the wayside. Trump’s post on X following his two-hour phone call with Putin should have come as no surprise.
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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Jonathan Sweet |Mark Toth
Retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg told Fox News journalist Dana Perino a few weeks ago that “Russia’s not winning this war. Russia has not made any major advances in the last year and a half.”But you would not know that based upon President Trump’s Monday phone call to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Threats of economic sanctions and resumption of military aid to Ukraine fell by the wayside. Trump’s post on X following his two-hour phone call with Putin should have come as no surprise.
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2 weeks ago | 
kyivpost.com | Jonathan Sweet |Mark Toth
Last Sunday, during a press conference at the Kremlin, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced he had rejected a European ultimatum for a ceasefire, but proposed to hold “direct negotiations without any preconditions” with Ukraine on May 15 in Istanbul. President Donald Trump quickly chimed in stating, “President Putin of Russia doesn’t want to have a Cease Fire Agreement with Ukraine, but rather wants to meet on Thursday, in Turkey, to negotiate a possible end to the BLOODBATH.
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3 weeks ago | 
thehill.com | Jonathan Sweet |Mark Toth
Contrary to what many analysts, journalists and politicians are saying, Ukraine can still defeat the Russian army and drive it out of their country — not just “hold out for an indefinite period,” as retired U.S. Navy Admiral James Stavridis put it in March. But victory will not come from the close fight alone. Ukraine simply does not have the manpower or weapons necessary to dislodge Russian defenders from their fighting positions in a direct fire engagement.
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3 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Jonathan Sweet |Mark Toth
Contrary to what many analysts, journalists and politicians are saying, Ukraine can still defeat the Russian army and drive it out of their country — not just “hold out for an indefinite period,” as retired U.S. Navy Admiral James Stavridis put it in March. But victory will not come from the close fight alone. Ukraine simply does not have the manpower or weapons necessary to dislodge Russian defenders from their fighting positions in a direct fire engagement.
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4 weeks ago | 
thehill.com | Mark Toth |Jonathan Sweet
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s four-day state visit to Russia, which began yesterday, is sending Europe and the U.S. a stark message. Beijing’s “no limits” partnership with Moscow is here to stay. It is past time for Brussels and Washington to recognize that Xi and Russian President Vladimir Putin are doubling down on their growing ideological war against the West. While the messaging at a state level is largely symbolic, their alliance is proving already deadly in Ukraine.
