Category: Vladimir Putin

Putin Accepts Invitation to Attend G20, Setting up Potential Biden Showdown

Russian President Vladimir Putin will attend the Group of 20 event in November, according to Indonesia’s president, as White House officials publicly expressed reservations about the matter. “Last night at 7, I spoke on the phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin,” Indonesian President Joko Widodo said in a statement Friday. “President Putin expressed his gratitude…


Putin Warns of ‘Lightning’ Response If US Intervenes in Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday warned Moscow would mount a quick response if Western powers intervene in its two-month-long invasion of Ukraine. Speaking to lawmakers in a public setting, Putin said that “if anyone sets out to intervene in the current events from the outside and creates unacceptable threats for us that are strategic…


UK’s Johnson Dismisses Fears of Russia Using Nuclear Weapons in Ukraine

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has played down fears that Russian President Vladimir Putin might order the use of nuclear weapons to avoid defeat in Ukraine. He dismissed the idea that Putin will feel under pressure to escalate the conflict further, arguing that the Russian leader has the “political margin for manoeuvre” to back down….


Russia–Ukraine Explained: The War, China, Globalism, and America

“Most people, unfortunately, human nature being what it is,” Victor Davis Hanson said, “are more apt to be impressed with displays of power than they are with humanity, and that’s where we are.” In two recent episodes of “American Thought Leaders,” host Jan Jekielek sat down with classicist, historian, and commentator Victor Davis Hanson to…


Putin Funds Fake Protests, Rattles Nukes

Commentary Fake protests throughout the world and threats of nuclear war—in 2022 we witness a violent echo of 1983’s Kremlin-orchestrated frauds. I’ll address the nuke threat first. On Feb. 27 Russian President Vladimir Putin played drama king and put Russian nuclear forces on high alert. His war in Ukraine already failing, Vlad added nuclear pucker…


Ukrainian Troops Training in UK to Use British Armoured Vehicles

Ukrainian troops are being trained on UK soil to use British armoured vehicles, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has confirmed. “I can say that we’re currently training Ukrainians in Poland in the use of the anti-aircraft defences and actually in this country [the UK] in the use of the armoured vehicles,” he said on Thursday…


Wife of Putin Ally Held in Ukraine Accuses Kyiv Authorities of Beating Her Husband

The wife of one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s top allies in Ukraine said on Friday that he has been beaten by the Ukrainian security service while being interrogated in detention. At a news conference in Moscow, Viktor Medvedchuk’s wife Oksana Marchenko said that one of two photos released by Ukraine this week showed he…


Just Biden His Time

Commentary There he goes again! Almost as soon as he took office last year, President Joe Biden heralded the new era in American diplomacy by calling Vladimir Putin, president of the country’s chief rival as a nuclear super-power, a “killer” without a human soul. Now everybody knows—at least everybody who has been paying attention knows—that…


UK Sanctions Pro-Russian Separatist Leaders in Eastern Ukraine

The UK government, in coordination with the European Union, has sanctioned 178 individuals linked to pro-Russian separatist regions of Eastern Ukraine. The UK Foreign Office said the new sanctions are intended to target “those who prop up Russian-backed illegal breakaway regions of Ukraine.” This comes after a missile attack on a packed railway station in…


Japan Approves New Sanctions Against Russia, Freezes Assets of Putin’s Daughters

Japan’s cabinet agreed Tuesday to freeze the assets of 398 Russian individuals, including two daughters of Russian President Vladimir Putin, as part of its new sanctions against Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine. This round of sanctions includes the freezing of the assets of Putin’s daughters, Maria Vorontsova and Katerina Tikhonova, as well as Russian…