The man poised to be Germany’s next leader delivered a jolt this week when he warned that the demise of NATO in its current form could be at hand and said Europe must chart a military course separate from the United States. Friedrich Merz’s center-right Christian Democratic Union party won …

Russia and the United States have just completed a round of official talks for the first time since Moscow launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The meeting between U.S. and Russian officials in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday focused on “normalizing relations” and charting a path toward ending Russia’s war against …

Saying “whatever he wants” is a privilege that comes with being the leader of a great power, Vladimir Putin said of U.S. President Donald Trump in an interview published on Monday, the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Russian propagandist Pavel Zarubin, who released the interview on Telegram, …