As the Trump administration works toward a halt in the fighting, many experts fear that Ukraine will be forced to accept a ceasefire deal that will only give Russian forces a badly needed breather.

On US foreign and security policy, the Democrats have a choice of three roads. They can simply acquiesce in the Trump administration’s policies; they can try to outflank them by being even more hawkish, in alliance with the likes of Liz Cheney, the “Blob,” and the neocons; or they can oppose them in the name of peace and international cooperation.

President Donald Trump signed what amounted to articles of surrender to the Taliban, ending U.S. military support, demoralizing the Afghan army, and triggering a series of cascading events that led directly to the fall of the U.