It is a dark day when the president of the United States aligns himself with a dictator who has waged a brutal, unprovoked war on a sovereign nation. Yet that is exactly what Donald Trump has done by negotiating Ukraine’s future with

Fresh possibilities have emerged for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia with a change of power in Washington.

Echoing Putin’s talking points, the war against Ukraine no longer is an unjustified aggression but was, as Trump has now declared, Kyiv’s fault. Ukraine has become the ultimate test that the liberal international order failed to pass.

NBC News’ Richard Engel, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Evelyn Farkas, and Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul join Katy Tur to express concerns about Trump’s deference towards Russia.

The Kremlin is keeping things measured. Putin is not rushing into a full embrace of Washington just because Trump is back in office. Moscow sees the reset in ties as positive, but officials are making it clear: the damage done under the last administration was extensive,

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Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) in a statement on the Senate floor marking the third anniversary of the war in Ukraine accused President Trump of “siding” with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the United States’s traditional NATO allies.