With American and Russian negotiators discussing the fate of Ukraine, parallels are inevitably being drawn to the Yalta ...

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The 80th anniversary of the Conference between Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill and the new goals of today's emperors to ...

On their anniversaries, Yalta and Helsinki offer lessons for Ukraine, Trump, and the balance of power in Europe.

Russia and the US just held talks on ending the war in Ukraine — without Kyiv. Eastern European history shows it isn't rare for major powers to decide the fate of smaller states.

Ukraine has not been invited to a key meeting between American and Russian officials in Saudi Arabia this week.

Roosevelt of the United States, Winston Churchill of the United Kingdom, and Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union met to discuss the postwar reorganization of a war-torn Europe. Judge allows DOGE ...

In 1965, U.S. and South Vietnamese planes made their first bombing raids on North Vietnam. In 1970, Japan put a satellite, ...

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Eighty years ago this month, the United States and Great Britain effectively conceded Eastern Europe and parts of Central ...