An international affairs consultant discusses the status of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and how the new Trump Administration might help secure peace.

Trump followed through on several of his Day One promises with a flurry of executive orders, but he left some on the table, including imposing tariffs and ending the war in Ukraine.

The US government is preparing to send thousands of additional troops to the US-Mexico border. Stryker armored vehicles may also be sent there, Washington Post reports. According to an anonymous US official,

It was the No. 1 issue for Democrats during the campaign. It was also a winning issue for them in the 2022 midterm election, and one that Trump was able to apparently neutralize in the presidential race with his promise to leave the issue of abortion access to the states in the post- Roe era.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would add new tariffs to his sanctions threat against Russia if the country does not make a deal to end its war in Ukraine, and added that these could also be applied to "other participating countries.

Trump has said he will issue executive orders on his first day in office to impose a 25 per cent tariff on all imports from Canada and Mexico if the two US neighbors do not clamp down on the flow of drugs into the US and people entering the country illegally.

Ukraine is in the final stages of drafting recruitment reforms to attract 18- to 25-year-olds who are currently exempt from mobilization as it looks for ways to bolster its fighting force.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has an answer for President Donald Trump about his idea of renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America:” he can call it whatever he wants on the American pa

Despite its ongoing war with Russia, Ukraine has offered to support Southern ... “We’re friends — especially when times get tough." Mexico has sent more than 70 firefighters and disaster ...

President Donald Trump issued a mass pardon Monday of all defendants of the Jan. 6 riots and signed a number of executive orders, including securing the U.S.-Mexico border, as he spoke with reporters in the Oval Office.

He also symbolically but provocatively announced he was rechristening the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America.” Read more at straitstimes.com.