Poll after poll makes it clear: Americans don’t want to go to war with Russia over Ukraine. in on Ipsos/Reuters poll from March 3-4, adults opposed sending troops to Ukraine, 61 percent to 39 percent. in a YouGov/CBS News poll from Feb. 24-28, Americans opposed sending US troops to defend Ukraine, 71 percent to 29 … Read more
Tesla has made some charging stations around Ukraine free for all electric cars. With this move, the company will help people trying to survive the Russian attacks. Russia’s invasion attempt against Ukraine had great repercussions around the world. Governments have already begun to impose official sanctions against Russia. The private sector, on the other hand, … Read more
(Janos Kummer / Getty Images) Putin’s indefensible invasion of Ukraine has revived the Cold War, and renewed militarism and nuclear threats. We need Russia to negotiate a ceasefire—but we also can’t forget about fighting pandemics and climate change, editorial director Katrina Vanden Heuvel says. Also on this episode, our justice correspondent Elie Mystal talks about … Read more
It’s hard to remember now that it’s over, but the war in Afghanistan was overwhelmingly popular when it began. Merely a week after Sept. 11, then-President George W. Bush signed a joint resolution from Congress authorizing the use of force against those responsible, and the US and British, with international support, began bombing Taliban and … Read more
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin talk at the APEC Summit in Danang, Vietnam, November 11, 2017. (Pool photo via AP / Jorge Silva) Subscribe to the nation Subscribe now for as little as $2 a month! Thank you for signing up for the nation‘s weekly newsletter. Thank you for signing up. For more from the … Read more
In Part III of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, Galen Druke interviews Russian/Eurasian policy expert Samuel Charap, a senior political scientist with the Rand Corporation. Charap analyzes the ongoing war in Ukraine and the difficulties of reaching a compromise to satisfy Western, Ukrainian and Russian interests.
cyberspace: Against all odds, even the least favorable, in the end the power game between Russia and Europe has led to the worst possible scenario, because Vladimir Putin has given the order: Russia invades Ukraine, and the world fears what might happen. The Third World War has not broken out yet, and it is very … Read more
A Russian invasion of Ukraine would lead to sweeping economic sanctions on Russian companies, preventing them from trading with US dollars and UK pounds, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Sunday. The impact of sanctions will extend beyond Russian President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle to “all companies and organizations of strategic importance to Russia,” Johnson … Read more
Boris Johnson has said Russia’s plan to invade Ukraine ‘has already begun in some senses’ and intelligence suggests it ‘could be really the biggest war in Europe since 1945’ Russia: Boris Johnson warns of ‘generation of bloodshed’ Boris Johnson has said Russia is planning “the biggest war in Europe since 1945” according to evidence seen … Read more
Russia invading Ukraine would lead to the largest conflict in Europe since the Second World War, the Prime Minister has warned. Boris Johnson said he wanted people to “understand the sheer cost in human life” that an incursion into Ukraine would bring, with casualties on both the Russian and Ukrainian sides, as he continued to … Read more