Kyiv to Moscow: “We will hit your economy until it buckles”

Political fortunes turn fast. One day there were handshakes and a red carpet in Alaska; the next, Trump calling Russia a “paper tiger.” Even more revealing than the insult was what followed: once Mr. Trump flagged fuel lines and gas shortages, Moscow’s tightly controlled media – usually eager to hide failures – started running the story, writing, “it is no longer possible to deny the signs of petrol shortages in the regions.”

"Ukraine Is an Asset, Not a Charity”: The Message from the Ukraine Action Summit

More than 700 participants and five days of work — that is the agenda of the Ukraine Action Summit. The meeting takes place at a moment when the war in Ukraine remains one of the top priorities on the White House foreign policy agenda, while in U.S. domestic politics tensions in Congress and a potential federal government shutdown dominate the headlines...