For years, Donald Trump criticized presidents for empty threats. He often pointed to then-President Barack Obama failing to enforce his “red line” on Syria using chemical weapons. During his first term in 2017, Trump called it a “blank threat” that cost us “in many other parts of the world.”

U.S. President Donald Trump renewed a threat to impose sanctions on Russia on Friday if there is no progress toward a peaceful settlement in Ukraine in two weeks, showing frustration at Moscow a week after his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska.

Tulsi Gabbard, US Director of National Intelligence, has issued a directive prohibiting the sharing of intelligence on Ukraine-Russia talks, even with close allies. Source: CBS News, citing US intelligence officials Details: CBS News stated that Gabbard had issued the directive to the US intelligence community on 20 July,