Bob Edlin: Infamy in the White House – and the shredding of Atlantic Charter ideals

A Day of American Infamy is the headline above a New York Times column by Bret Stephens, who harked back to August 1941, about four months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

US President Franklin Roosevelt met with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill aboard warships in Newfoundland’s Placentia Bay and agreed to the Atlantic Charter, a joint declaration by the world’s leading democratic powers on “common principles” for a postwar world.

Philip Crump: Breaking Point - How Zelenskyy’s ‘Own Goal’ Fractured U.S. Relations

The explosive Oval Office confrontation on Friday between President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy marked a dramatic escalation of tensions simmering for years between the U.S. and Ukraine.

This public clash, derailing a rare earth minerals deal and a joint news conference, was no accident, but the boiling point of deep frustrations, diplomatic blunders, and clashing priorities.

Ele Ludemann: One of these was not like the others

Russia. Iran, North Korea, USA.

One of those wasn’t like the others, it stood for democracy, freedom and the rule of law but last week the USA voted with Iran, North Korea, Russia and 14 other pro-Russian countries at the UN.