What Trump should do if Ukraine peace talks collapse

January 03, 2026

What Trump should do if Ukraine peace talks collapse

Peace talks on ending Russia’s war on Ukraine are likely to collapse once Russia rejects binding security guarantees for Ukraine. Russia entered this war to break Ukraine’s capacity to defend itself. A secure Ukraine defeats the entire purpose of President Vladimir Putin’s strategy. A Ukraine backed by enforceable commitments, sustained Western military support, and credible deterrence would remain […]

Russia overextends its deception fetish with invented Ukrainian attack on Putin

Inventing a nonexistent Ukrainian assassination attempt against Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russian officials have damaged their credibility and Putin’s diplomatic strategy about the war in Ukraine. Past experience makes it improbable that Trump will increase sanctions and other pressure on Russia in relation to this deception. Still, this incident illustrates the risks of the Kremlin’s […]

California is the poster child for fraud and financial waste

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) is trying to push back on the notion that California is rife with fraud and financial waste. Now would be a bad time to revisit the state’s precarious budget position heading into the new year. Newsom is on the defensive after the blooming Minnesota fraud scandal has turned eyes toward California. […]

California’s toxic empathy isn’t helping homeless drug addicts

The toxic empathy of Democratic policies on homelessness and drug use allows homeless drug addicts to slowly kill themselves in the streets and even prevents them from getting the treatment they need to recover. This is playing out in Riverside, California, where former Nickelodeon actor Tylor Chase’s drug addicted homeless life is being chronicled by news outlets […]

Don’t grant citizenship to people who hate their countrymen

It’s not enough that the United Kingdom is arresting people for social media posts, or that it is trying to erode the foundation of justice, or that it taxes its people into oblivion for the privilege of dying on waiting lists for healthcare. Now, thanks to the inept and feckless U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, […]

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In Pluribus, the apocalypse arrives with a smile

In the imaginative mind of Vince Gilligan, the end of the world does not arrive with flaming alien spacecraft or pulverized monuments, but with the unsettling cheer of a Walmart greeter. His new series, Pluribus, eschews the bombast of traditional science fiction tropes in favor of something far more disquieting: a world saved from war, famine, […]

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