The US raid on Venezuela has exposed the limits of ties between Moscow and Caracas – while pointing the way for potential strategic opportunities for Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Washington’s new era of gunboat diplomacy.

During a bill signing ceremony in June, Donald Trump made the bizarre claim that Vladimir Putin led the Soviet Union during World War II. "He fought with us," Trump stated. "He lost 51 million people." Putin was born in 1952, several years after the war ended.

Needing U.S. support to fend off Russia in Ukraine, European leaders have been cautious about criticizing President Trump on Greenland, Iran, Venezuela and much else.

Millionaire and Forbes magazine publisher Malcom Forbes once famously said that the person who “dies with the most toys, wins.” But with his tariff policies driving up the cost of Christmas presents this holiday season, President Donald Trump appears ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has referred to the breakup of that empire as a historical tragedy. He is making a bid to reverse part of it with his invasion of Ukraine.