By David R. Sands Russian President Vladimir Putin has managed to do in five days what U.S. presidents of both parties have failed to do for a decade: Get NATO laggard Germany to spend more on defense. Responding to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Chancellor Olaf Scholz Sunday told a special session of the German … […]
By FIONA NIMONI ONLY three years ago he was a comedian with no experience of politics. Now, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy is becoming a heroic war leader, with his dignified and resolute responses to Putin’s attacks. INSTAGRAM/VLADIMIR ZELENSKY In 2003 President Zelenskyy married wife Olena, 44[/caption] Not known, clear with picture desk The former comedian […]
By warritatafo A Green foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, confirmed in parliament that Germany would indeed be sending weapons to Ukraine. And a liberal finance minister, Christian Lindner, told MPs that the toughest sanctions imaginable were now necessary, even though they would hit the economy hard. “But we are ready to carry the cost because this […]