Tag: Vladimir Putin
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The left’s partisan folly of comparing Donald Trump with Vladimir Putin
The left is regularly comparing US President Donald Trump with Vladimir Putin, often even saying that Trump is worse than Putin out of sheer ideological enmity. This comparison is banal, odious and reductive. I’m writing this because the Times of Malta made this comparison today and such comparison has also been made by the UK’s…
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President Trump announces troop withdrawal from Germany after hour-long call with Putin
Following an hour-long conversation with Vladimir Putin, President Donald Trump has announced a potential US troop withdrawal from Germany. The US President did not provide any details; however, it has long been known that Vladimir Putin has been pressuring President Trump to pull US troops out of Europe. This would not be the first time…
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Iranian Foreign Minister visits Saint Petersburg and meets Vladimir Putin
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi travelled to Saint Petersburg and met with Vladimir Putin after talks in Islamabad with the US administration failed to renew. While in Moscow, Minister Abbas Araghchi said that Iran and Russia are strategic partners. Before travelling to Russia, Minister Araghchi travelled to Oman, after leaving Pakistan. The visit to Russia…
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Trump’s ceasefire for Ukrainian cities by Putin is fake news: Russia bombs and shells Dnipro and other cities
Earlier today many large press outlets published headlines stating that President Trump had convinced Vladimir Putin over the phone to stop firing at Kyiv and other Ukrainian towns and cities. The headline was a verbatim quotation of President Trump at the White House during a press conference. The mainstream press also failed to mention that…
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Putin and Trump play games to pressure President Zelensky to capitulate: Russia bombards Ukrainian cities with drones and missiles
President Trump is putting renewed pressure on President Zelensky after he accused him of attacking Vladimir Putin’s residence just after President Zelensky met President Trump at Mar-a-Lago0. The Russians claimed that the Ukrainians launched a drone attack at Vladimir Putin’s residence in Valdai, in the Novgorod region. Putin’s Valdai residence is one of the many properties…
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Caught red-handed: Steve Witkoff colludes with the Russians against Ukraine and Europe
In a story worthy of a James Bond movie, President Donald Trump’s US Special Envoy, Steve Witkoff, was caught red-handed colluding with Vladimir Putin’s envoy, Yuriy Ushakov, in secret talks about the formulation of the previously proposed capitulation-plan to Ukraine. The collusion was discovered as someone monitored the phone conversations between Witkoff and the Russian…
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When Putin lied to the world and promised not to attack Ukraine
On the 9th December 2019, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Vladimir Putin gathered in Normandy, France to sign a ceasefire agreement over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In 2014, Russia launched an invasion of Ukraine capturing the Crimea region and placing its troops in the Donbas region. The Russians started a war in the Donbas region…
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No Tomahawks for Ukraine after President Trump speaks to Putin over the phone
At a press conference at the Oval Office, US President Donald Trump hinted that he won’t be selling Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine after speaking to President Vladimir Putin over the phone. In the press conference President Trump said that the US needs Tomahawk missiles for itself. Previously, President Trump left the issue of Ukraine acquiring…
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Syrian President goes to Moscow and asks for Bashar al-Assad’s return: goes back home empty-handed
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa met with Vladimir Putin in Moscow, yesterday, having travelled on Putin’s own invitation. In a brief press conference before the meeting started, the Syrian president said he hoped Syria and Russia would restart their complex relationship. Vladimir Putin said Russia has always conducted its relations with Syria in the interests of…
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Vladimir Putin apologises to Azerbaijan with President Aliyev during meeting in Tajikistan
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin met with Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev in a one to-one meeting in the capital city of Tajikistan, Dushanbe at the sidelines of the Russia – Central Asia Summit. During the meeting, Putin apoligised to Azerbaijan for Russia’s responsibility over the downing of Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 on December 25th last year which…
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Vladimir Putin’s table at the PN’s Headquarters
It only occurred to me recently that the Nationalist Party is using a Vladimir Putin-styled roundtable for its parliamentary group discussions in contrast to the Labour Party which uses a squarish and Last Supper-like tabling style at its Party Headquarters on the third floor. I think it looks ridiculous. How are they able to hold…
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Nerandra Modi praises India’s relationship with Russia while President Trump accuses India of a one-sided relationship
India’s Prime Minister Nerandra Modi was full of praise about India’s relationship with Russia after meeting with Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Tianjin, China. Nerandra Modi joined Vladimir Putin for a car-ride that lasted 45 minutes before the leaders led talks between their delegations. Pemier Modi said that…
