LOS ANGELES (OC).--President Donald Trump said, tongue-in-cheek, talking with his wife First Lady Melania made his see the light on Putin.  Trump thought in the 2024 campaign that ending the Ukraine War could happen quickly based on his relationship with 72-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin.  Trump found out the hard way that there are competing interests in ending the Ukraine War quickly, real differences between Putin and Ukraine’s 47-year-old PresidentVolodymyr Zelensky.  “I go home.  I tell the First Lady, ‘You...

LOS ANGELES (OC).--Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed to push on with the war no matter what the outside pressure for a ceasefire, including added involvement from President Donald Trump.  Putin responded to Trump giving him 50 days to come to a ceasefire, authorizing NATO to supply Ukraine with Patriot missiles to protect its civilian population from the Russian bombardment.  Trump was actually not threatening at all trying to push for peace in Ukraine, saying that he would let NATO buy from the Pentagon Patriot...

LOS ANGELES (OC).--President Donald Trump, 79, delivered on another campaign promisee to dismantle the Department of Education with the Supreme Court ruling today that the executive branch can determine federal employment.  Democrats led by teachers unions around the country fought Trump’s intent to dismantle the Department of Education, claiming it would cause irreparable harm to the nation’s public school children.  Education Department Secretary Linda McMahon said the department would be reducted in size from 4,133...

LOS ANGELES.--President Donald Trump, 79, looks poised to placate war hawks on Capitol Hill, deciding to  sell Patriot missiles to NATO to supply Ukraine.  Trump has grown frustrated with the slow progress of a ceasefire and peace talks to end the Ukraine War.  While Trump makes a big concession to let NATO buy Patriot Missiles for Ukraine, he wants 72-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin to know he’s serious about resetting U.S.-Russia relations from four years of disaster under former President Joe Biden.  Trump has...

LOS ANGELES (OC).--President Donald Trump, 79, hinted he would announce a new Ukraine War policy, potentially harming overall U.S.-Russian relations something he vowed to fix after former President Joe Biden trashed relations for the last four years.  Trump runs a real risk of alienating 72-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin who, so far, has refused to sign on to a 30-day unconditional ceasefire.  Trump knows that if adopts Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Sen. Richard Blumenthal’s (D-Conn.) new sanctions bill, he...

LOS ANGELES.--Meeting in Beijing today, 75-year-old Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and 71-year-old Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi discussed ending the Ukraine War, the same subject Lavrov discussed with 53-year-old Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.  President Donald Trump, 79, has certainly put ending the Ukraine War on the minds for foreign leaders, including Lavrov who said he came up with a new idea talking with Rubio to end the war.  Trump has been disappointed with 72-year-old Russian...

LOS ANGELES (OC).--Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused German Chancellor Friedrich Merz of warmongering with the Russian Federation, making anti-Russian statements.  Certainly Merz knows the history of war with Russia with Hitler’s Third Reich responsible for some 28 million Russian deaths in WW II.  Successive generations of German leadership since WW II has worked hard to make up for the Nazi massacre of the Russian people, by far incurring the most losses of any country in WW II. Speaking in Kuala Lumpur,...

LOS ANGELES (OC).--Meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 53-year-old Secretary of State Marco Rubio and 75-year-old Russian Foreign Minister discussed spent hours discussing how to move the Ukraine War to the peace table.  Two rounds of peace talks in Istanbul hasn’t resulted in anything concrete, instead Russian President Vladimir Putin has intensified the war, something disappointing to 79-year-old President Donald Trump.  Trump talked with Putin a week ago last Thursday, only to find the Russian leader push the pedal to...

LOS ANGELES (OC).--Former CIA Director John Brennan, 69, said he was unaware of any investigation by the Department of Justice into his rule while former President Barack Obama’s CIA director.  “I know nothing about this reported investigation or referral to the DOJ, other than what I’ve heard in these press reports, leaks, whare not really supposed to happen if there is an investigation going on,” Brennan told MSNBC which he appears often as a Trump critic.  Brenann was given former Secretary of State Hillary’s Rodham...

LOS ANGELES (OC).--Meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spent a few hours hashing over new ideas to restart peace talks on Ukraine. President Donald Trump has grown more frustrated with the lack of progress, saying recently Russian President Vladimir Putin was very nice but didn’t seem to take Trump’s peace overtures seriously.  Lavrov knows that Trump has done many things since coming into office to restore normal diplomatic relations with Russia,...