Trump’s sudden shifts on NATO and Ukraine demonstrate how flattery can drastically alter the course of U.S. policy.

Welcome back to another edition of My Take 5, your weekly round-up of top international news. This week we are covering Trump’s possible U-turn on Putin, Estonia and the Baltics get ready with HIMARS,

President Donald Trump seems to have learned the lesson painfully gleaned by all his 21st-century predecessors: You can’t reset US relations with Vladimir Putin.

Is Melania Trump the reason behind Donald Trump’s sudden change of tone on Vladimir Putin? In a dramatic shift, Trump—long seen as soft on Russia—has publicly expressed disappointment with Putin’s actions in Ukraine,

Donald Trump’s astonishment at Putin shows a reassuring horror at mass slaughter but also an innocence of knowledge about Putin’s career. Subscribe. Donate. ... In this view, foreign ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump on July 14 credited First Lady Melania Trump—who was born behind the Iron Curtain and still holds an EU passport—for shaping his growing skepticism about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s promises to end the war in Ukraine.

The question from the BBC interviewer was short and to the point. Considering how Vladimir Putin fed him a steady stream of bs about a possible peace deal with Ukraine, might President Donald Trump be ready to admit his “very good relationship” with the Russian president is ending?

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has criticized Trump’s peace ultimatum to Vladimir Putin, suggesting it’s too slow. The U.S. president on Monday said he is “very, very unhappy” with Russia and threatened the country with secondary tariffs of up to 100 percent if it does not negotiate a peace deal with Ukraine within 50 days.