Three years into the war in Ukraine, what does the future of European security look like without the United States? That’s the question European leaders and NATO officials at this year's Munich Security Conference asked themselves after announcing a 90-minute phone call between President Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin and a blistering speech from Vice President JD Vance criticizing European allies.

Allied acquiescence to these moves emboldened him. During the summer of 1938, he demanded that Czechoslovakia cede the Sudetenland with its large German population to the Reich and threatened to take it by force if necessary. With Britain and France as its allies, Czechoslovakia refused. Europe teetered on the brink of war.

Russia occupied Crimea in 2014 and controls about 20 percent of Ukraine covering Donbass and Donetsk. These three regions have substantial Russian-leaning populations. The hard fa

Only after the Poland invasion in 1939, and the realization that appeasement simply does not satiate a dictator’s appetite for conquest, did Britain and France decide to declare war on Hitler. And, of course as we know, World War II was the result — the deadliest war in world history, resulting in some 75 million military and civilian casualties.

The future of Ukraine hangs in the balance as U.S. officials head to Saudi Arabia to begin direct negotiations with Moscow over ending the war, leaving Kyiv and its European allies scrambling to come

Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski of Poland said that Ukraine is too strong to be sold out by foreign powers. "The best guarantee for Ukraine is the almost million-man army, which is manning the foxholes and heroically resisting Russian aggression," he said on CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS" in an interview that aired Sunday.

Public sector workers and ground staff at Munich Airport will go on a two-day strike starting Thursday after wage negotiations ended without result, the Verdi union said on Monday.

Speaking at the annual gathering, Vice President JD Vance urged European leaders to wage culture wars but ignored Ukraine and downplayed threats from Russia and China.

When Trump held a lengthy phone call with Putin last week, it was taken as a signal in Kyiv and other European capitals that their alliance to contain Moscow was fraying.

World leaders and senior diplomats descended on Munich on Friday for a weekend that could mould the future of global geopolitics. Top officials from China, the United States and Europe were meeting at the Munich Security Conference to discuss US President Donald Trump's vow to end the war in Ukraine by negotiating directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

(Tobias Schwarz/AFP/Getty Images) MUNICH — The Trump administration began its first week of negotiations to end the war in Ukraine with a dizzying array of mixed signals that confused and ...