Is Putin Right? Has Liberalism Lost the World? – Patrick J. Buchanan – Official Website

Putin also sees the social excesses of multiculturalism and secularism in the West as representing a failure of liberalism. “The liberal idea has become obsolete. … (Liberals) cannot simply dictate anything to anyone as they have been attempting to do over the recent decades.” Such was the confident claim of Vladimir Putin to the Financial…
— Read on buchanan.org/blog/is-putin-right-has-liberalism-lost-the-world-137223

Moscow Urges US to Fulfil Pledges on Syria Before Offering Advice on Venezuela #Zakharova #Trump #Syria #Venezuela

KHANTY-MANSIYSK (Russia) (Sputnik) – US President Donald Trump should first stand by his promise to withdraw US troops from Syria before calling on Russia to “get out” of Venezuela, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday.
— Read on sputniknews.com/russia/201903281073605184-russia-usa-venezuela-trump-syria-advice/

U.S. – Live At State With Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations Kurt Volker

Kurt Volker

U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations 

Washington, DC

March 18, 2019

English Transcript:

MODERATOR: Welcome to LiveAtState, the State Department’s Department’s interactive virtual press briefing platform. I’m delighted to welcome participants joining us today from around Europe and across the globe. Today we’ll be speaking with Ambassador Kurt Volker, U.S. special representative for Ukraine negotiations, about the conflict in Ukraine and the status of negotiations five years on from Russia’s claimed annexation of Crimea.