WAR & PEACEProfessor Jeffrey Sachs: This is not a random Russian invasion but the inevitable consequence of decades of deliberate US deception and broken promises dating back to 1990.

WAR & PEACERussian President Vladimir Putin has publicly accused Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky of attempting to deceive him with peace negotiations.

WAR & PEACEDavid N. Gibbs notes that the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 was deliberately provoked. He now sees a parallel with the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

WAR & PEACE"So finally, after hundreds of thousands of lives lost, Ukraine still lost the war as I had predicted from the get-go? What manner of humans are these guys in Europe?"

WAR & PEACEThere is "a great fatigue" over the conflict in Ukraine and EU countries will soon agree that it must be resolved by compromise, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni told the two phone-busing Russians Vovan and Lexus

WAR & PEACE"Although the U.S. has the funding to continue to support Ukraine's war efforts in the short term, Pentagon officials underscored today that more funds will be needed to continue to assist Ukraine in the long term."