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1 week ago | 
original.antiwar.com | Ted Snider
Peace talks between Russia and Ukraine have been rare since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Part of the blame falls on Europe and the mainstream media for attempting to suffocate diplomacy.
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1 week ago | 
libertarianinstitute.org | Ted Snider
On May 16, Russia and Ukraine held their first direct talks since the first months of the former’s invasion. Despite the pessimistic evaluation by Ukrainian and European leaders, the return to diplomacy is itself a major achievement and step forward. The talks lasted an hour and forty minutes. Western leaders and Western media have given the first round of talks a failing grade. They have dismissed it for three reasons.
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1 week ago | 
original.antiwar.com | Ted Snider
On May 16, Russia and Ukraine held their first direct talks since the first months of the war. Despite the pessimistic evaluation by Ukrainian and European leaders, the return to diplomacy is itself a major achievement and step forward. The talks lasted an hour and forty minutes. Western leaders and Western media have given the first round of talks a failing grade. They have dismissed it for three reasons. They claim that Putin first suggested direct negotiations and then did not show.
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2 weeks ago | 
alethonews.com | Ted Snider |Patrick Buchanan
Iran Nuclear Negotiations Bring New, Suprising Developments By Ted Snider | The Libertarian Institute | May 20, 2025In the past several days, there have been surprising developments in the negotiations between Washington and Tehran over Iran’s civilian nuclear program. U.S. President Donald Trump has frequently, but not always, defined the goal of the negotiations as being limited to preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.
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2 weeks ago | 
libertarianinstitute.org | Ted Snider
In the past several days, there have been surprising developments in the negotiations between Washington and Tehran over Iran’s civilian nuclear program. U.S. President Donald Trump has frequently, but not always, defined the goal of the negotiations as being limited to preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.
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2 weeks ago | 
original.antiwar.com | Ted Snider
In the past several days, there have been surprising developments in the negotiations between Washington and Tehran over Iran’s civilian nuclear program. U.S. President Donald Trump has frequently, but not always, defined the goal of the negotiations as being limited to preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. He repeated that definition as recently as May 25, saying Iran must “permanently and verifiably cease pursuit of nuclear weapons….
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2 weeks ago | 
steigan.no | Ted Snider
Antiwar.com, 15. mai 2025Artikkelen, med tittelen «Hva skjedde sist gang Russland og Ukraina holdt fredssamtaler?» er en tour de force av selektiv plukking og misjonsjournalistikk, som fikser sitatene rundt konklusjonen, i stedet for å komme til konklusjonen fra sitatene. Artikkelen sier at de opprinnelige forhandlingene, som ble holdt i Hviterussland og Istanbul mellom 28.
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3 weeks ago | 
original.antiwar.com | Ted Snider
On May 11, Russian President Vladimir Putin offered to restart direct negotiations with Ukraine in Istanbul. Reuters responded by reminding its readers what happened in the first round of Istanbul talks in the first weeks of the war. The article, entitled “What happened the last time Russia and Ukraine held peace talks?” is a tour de force of cherry picking and of missionary journalism that fixes the quotations around the conclusion instead of arriving at the conclusion from the quotations.
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3 weeks ago | 
original.antiwar.com | Ted Snider
In negotiations over wars in areas all over the globe, the Trump administration has been sending inconsistent messages. At times, the statements from the White House are so mixed that it is no longer clear what message the President is trying to send. Soon after Vice President JD Vance said that the U.S. would not intervene and broker a ceasefire between India and Pakistan, President Trump claimed credit for brokering a truce between India and Pakistan.
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4 weeks ago | 
theamericanconservative.com | Ted Snider
Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... President Donald Trump has given several recent interviews on his first 100 days in office. He first spoke with Time, then with The Atlantic, and, most recently, with NBC’sMeet the Press. In them, he gave some of his clearest statements yet on controversial foreign policy issues, though ambiguity on some important matters remained. On the war in Ukraine that he promised to end on his first day in office, Trump made four bold statements.
