Just one day after cancelling an upcoming summit with Russia's Vladimir Putin, President Trump announced new sanctions on the Kremlin targeting its most valuable export, oil. >> That they'll certainly have an impact there. They're massive sanctions.It's sanctions on oil. Uh the two biggest oil companies, among the biggest in the world, but they're Russians. Every time I speak with Vladimir, I have good conversations and then uh they don't go anywhere. They just don't go anywhere.You never know with war, but ...

This morning, the United States is imposing new sanctions targeting Russia's two largest oil companies along with dozens of their subsidiaries. The Treasury Department made the announcement yesterday. The sanctions may extend beyond just the companies named in the announcement. The Wall Street Journal highlights the warning in the sanctions notice that quote, "Foreign financial institutions that conduct or facilitate significant transactions or provide any service involving Russia's militaryindustrial base ...

BREAKING: 🇺🇸 President Trump says “ Putin and Zelenskiy want to end the war, I think it will end. ” https://t.co/1FKa1BZtwS ...

According to a senior White House official, a planned summit in Budapest between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin is now on hold. Just last week, the president posted on True Social that he would be meeting face to face with Putin to discuss the war. >> It doesn't seem like there's any real progress that has been made aimed at actually getting a potential end to the war, which the US and President Trump has said is his goal here.So, they're saying there isn't a reason to have an a ...

Monica, let's begin with the Putin Trump summit situation. Why is the White House now saying that might not happen. >> Well, look, I think these talks were always a little bit delicate, Kate and Zinclay.And when the White House came out and said that they wanted to pursue a meeting in Budapest, there were still a lot of diplomatic issues that needed to be ironed out that they needed to deal with. And then, of course, there is a component of President Zalinski and whether Ukraine would have any role in those ...

European leaders are understood to be working with Ukraine on a 12-point proposal to end the war along the current battle lines: Here's your Evening Briefing https://t.co/VnSVDz3ktv ...

Just a few weeks ago at ANGA, you said that Ukraine could possibly win the war and they could territory. But now >> they could still win it. I don't think they will, but they could still win it. I never said they would win it. I said they could win.Anything could happen. You know war is a very strange. ...

RT Sondre Ulvund Solstad (@Sondreus)Russia does not appear to be winning the war on the battlefield. It is advancing only slowly, with little hope of a breakthrough and at a cost that is unsustainable in manpower and materiel. My latest on the war: https://t.co/DQj0VUlJh3 ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)Correction: their parents fought in a slave army, drafted from a population, that on the eve of war, opposed by 70%+ going to war with Germany. The slave army, along with its allies, then proceeded to mass murder civilians on a historically unprecedented scale. (Which doesn't excuse what their opponents did)."Greatest Generation" is what TV taught the Boomers to call this most pathological of generations. ...

Venezuela Situation & US Policy - US President authorized military strikes against suspected drug boats in the Caribbean, resulting in over 20 deaths in six strikes [1] - Senator argues these strikes are against tradition, requiring accusation and evidence before lethal action [2][3] - Senator highlights that Coast Guard statistics show about 25% of boarded ships have no drugs, questioning the policy of blowing up suspected drug-running ships [4] - Senator suggests speedboats are likely supplying drugs to islands near Venezuela, questioning the assumption they are destined for the US and the lack of proof [5] - Senator emphasizes the difference between war and peace, stating that all-out war with Venezuela requires a declaration of war from Congress [6] - President Trump acknowledged authorizing a covert CIA operation inside Venezuela, and the Pentagon has scaled up US forces in the region [7] - Senator finds it unusual to announce a covert CIA operation, questioning its effectiveness [8] - Senator notes some members of the administration have been pushing for war with Venezuela for a long time [9] - Senator points out President Trump's past opposition to regime change in Iraq and Libya, highlighting the costly and destabilizing consequences of those interventions [10][11]