Ukraine’s president says Russia fired at least 85 missiles, most of them aimed at his country’s power facilities, and blacked out many cities.
NATO
Posted inNation / World
9 NATO members urge support for Ukraine after annexation
Spurred into action by security concerns over Russia’s invasion, Finland and Sweden officially applied to join NATO in May using an accelerated procedure.
advertisement
Posted inNation / World
Senate gives near-unanimous approval to adding Sweden, Finland to NATO
Sweden and Finland applied in May, setting aside their longstanding stance of military nonalignment.
Posted inNation / World, News
After Kyiv visit, Sen. Collins expresses support for Ukraine military aid
Maine’s senior senator says a trip led by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell also was meant to signal support for Sweden and Finland’s NATO bids.
Posted inNation / World
Trump’s threats to quit NATO spur Maine lawmakers to defend 70-year-old alliance
A day after the U.S. House voted overwhelmingly for a measure aimed at making it difficult for a president to quit NATO, U.S. Sen. Susan Collins declared her support for the proposal. Collins, a Maine Republican, is part of a bipartisan group that introduced a resolution this month to prohibit a president from withdrawing from […]
Posted inOp-Eds, sj-web
Montenegro serves as test for NATO resolve
WASHINGTON — Fox News host Tucker Carlson recently asked President Trump, “Why should my son go to Montenegro to defend it from attack?” It is a fair question — one that many Americans were asking following Trump’s performance at the NATO summit — and it deserved a better answer than the president’s musing on the […]
Posted inOp-Eds, sj-web
Don't dismiss NATO's faraway members
Donald Trump thrives on an image of strength, so it’s never a good look when he inadvertently invokes the spirit of Neville Chamberlain, the British prime minister whose name has become a watchword for appeasement. In September 1938, Chamberlain referred to the process of the Nazis dismembering Czechoslovakia as “a quarrel in a faraway country […]
Posted inNation / World, sj-web
Donald Trump's claim that NATO will boost defense spending disputed
BRUSSELS (AP) — President Donald Trump closed out his chaotic two-day visit to NATO Thursday by declaring victory, claiming that member nations caved to his demands to significantly increase defense spending and reaffirming his commitment to the alliance. But there were no immediate specifics on what Trump said he had achieved, and French President Emmanuel […]
Posted inOp-Eds, sj-web
Kremlin operations target more than U.S. elections
During the 2012 presidential campaign, Mitt Romney argued that Vladimir Putin’s Russia is America’s chief geopolitical foe. In a now-embarrassing display of sanctimony and arrogance, President Barack Obama dismissed Romney as a benighted Cold War revivalist. “The 1980s are now calling and want their foreign policy back,” Obama sneered. Subsequent history has proved Romney to […]
Posted inNation / World
Donald Trump chastises NATO, vows to crackdown on leaks
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a ceremony to unveil artifacts from the World Trade Center and Berlin Wall for the new NATO headquarters, Thursday, May 25, 2017, in Brussels. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel at the Royal Palace, […]