The President had a decade-long bromance with his Russian counterpart and is thankfully changing tack, writes Michael McFaul.

Donald Trump is still just becoming wise to the notion that Russian President Vladimir Putin might not be a good-faith actor on the international stage. On Sunday, the president announced plans to send an unspecified number of Patriot air defense missiles to Ukraine, and all but admitted that Putin has hitherto charmed and strung him along.

Trump said he believed four times that a deal with Russia to end the war in Ukraine was possible. When asked if he trusts Putin, the U.S. president responded, “I trust almost nobody.” “I'm disappointed in him,

President Donald Trump is reportedly frustrated with Russian leader Vladimir Putin over the Ukraine war and is considering new sanctions and indirect military support via sales to NATO countries. But in his half year back in office,

Keir Starmer, the British prime minister, and Emmanuel Macron, the president of France, are expected to promise today to have their nuclear arsenals work together if Europe is threatened. Private equity firms have entered the $40 billion youth sports industry. Their investments could raise costs for families.

"I'm speaking to President Zelensky tomorrow in the morning, and I'm very disappointed with the conversation I had today with President Putin," U.S. President Donald Trump told journalists.

He also promised to impose so-called secondary tariffs of 100 percent on Russia if Vladimir Putin did not agree to a cease-fire within 50 days. Trump didn’t offer many more details, and the Department of Defense seems still to be working up options for arms sales.

Donald Trump wants the public to believe that Vladimir Putin “didn’t fool” him, but the Republican's recent record is in the way of his absurd talking point.