The collapse of the Soviet Union greatly reduced the West’s fear of another world war—a fear that had led Western leaders to ...

NATO’s Supreme Allied Commanders Europe have been American since Gen. Eisenhower. Henry Kissinger suggested that a European ...

For Trump, keen to set his imprint on history, this harks back to the summit held in Yalta, Crimea, in February 1945 between US President Franklin Roosevelt, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and British ...

The latest trend? The belief that we are witnessing a new Yalta. The Yalta Conference of February 1945 was when Allied leaders from the United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union decided the fate ...

It seems tacitly accepted – though not by Ukrainians – that Crimea will remain with Russia ... Is this another Munich? Or another Yalta? At Munich in 1938, Britain and France betrayed their alliance ...

Instead, they signal a return to principles of the Yalta System established in WWII’s last months. The Yalta talks were held exactly 80 years ago in Feb 1945. The idea of ‘might is right ...

ALTHOUGH recently the spotlight fell on US President Donald Trump’s dramatic and somewhat contradictory call for a negotiated end to what he terms “the Russia-Ukraine War”, the West has long ...

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Earlier this month, Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, commemorated the 80th anniversary of the Yalta Conference during the closing ... Russia violated those commitments with its annexation of ...

The Yalta conference, named after its venue in then-Soviet Crimea, saw the US, USSR and UK redraw the map of Europe, dividing Germany and granting Moscow influence over what became the Warsaw Pact ...

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