LITHUANIA PUSHES FOR SANCTIONS

LOS ANGELES.–Complaining about German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said the Merz and other EU leaders failed to follow through with new sanctions against the Kremlin for Putin’s failure to meet in Istanbul face-to-face with...

PUTIN RETALIATES AGAINST UKRAINE

LOS ANGELES.–Russian President Vladimir Putin has begun what looks like retaliation for Ukraine’s stealth drone strikes deep inside Russia on its strategic bomber fleet, an operation 47-year-old Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky tookk full credit for. ...

RUSSIA SAYS U.S. RELATIONS IN RUINS

LOS ANGELES.–Russia’s deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Rybakov told the TASS news agency that there’s little point to salvaging the New START treaty knowing that President Donald Trump proposed the Golden Dome space-based missile defense system.  Rybakov said...

TRUMP NO LONGER BLAMES PUTIN FOR WAR

LOS ANGELES.–Once frustrated with 72-year-old President Vladimir Putin to dragging his feet on a ceasefire deal, 78-year-old President Donald Trump spoke with Putin for over an hour June 4, no longer blaming Russia for the lack of peace progress.  Trump knows...

MERZ SAYS GERMANY RELIES ON THE U.S.

LOS ANGELES.–Speaking with 78-year-old President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, 69-year-old German Chancellor Friedrich Merz took a deferential tone, far different from interviews given in the European Union about backing the Ukraine War.  Merz actually asked...