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The United States responded to the Russian Revolution of 1917 by participating in the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War with the Allies of World War I in support of the White movement, in seeking to overthrow the Bolsheviks. [1] The United States withheld diplomatic recognition of the Soviet Union until 1933. [2]
On January 31, 2022, both the United States and Russia discussed the crisis at an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council. [313] The discussion was tense, with both sides accusing the other of stoking tensions. The United States government increased military support to Ukraine through a $650 million arms deal. [314]
Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 triggered the biggest confrontation between Moscow and the West since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis when the Soviet Union and the U.S. came close to nuclear war.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskky says that in order to win the war with Russia, the U.S. must lift limits on using its weapons to strike military targets in Russia. Zelenskyy made the ...
The first weeks of the new military campaign appeared more successful than the first war. Russian forces quickly seized control of the Chechen capital, Grozny. The conflict was presented by Putin as a fight against terrorism, and he gained a reputation as a decisive leader restoring order and strength in the country.
A Joe Biden presidency would be better for Russia than a Donald Trump one, Russian President Vladimir Putin told pro-Kremlin journalist Pavel Zarubin in an on-camera interview Wednesday.
This was bolstered by the broadly shared neo-nationalist values between President Donald Trump and Polish President Andrzej Duda, along with Poland's desire for strengthened military ties with the United States in order to counter Russian influence in Europe, particularly following the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea. [304]
D onald Trump's victory in November 2024 continued a more than three-decade trend: not since George H.W. Bush’s victory in 1988 had Americans chosen a combat veteran to be their commander-in-chief.