VIENNA (AP) — The United States and Russia have both recently threatened to resume nuclear testing, alarming the international community and jeopardizing a global norm against such tests. Experts say these threats from the world’s two largest nuclear powers put pressure on nonproliferation efforts and endanger global peace and security.

Russia is engaged in genocide by abducting Ukrainian children, several U.S. senators said and heard during a hearing in Washington on Wednesday.

Economic and military pressures could force Russia’s hand. Its economy is strained but not enough to do that, analysts say. And President Vladimir V. Putin says Russia is winning the war.

Russia has rejected parts of a United States proposal to end the war with Ukraine, a top Russian official said early Wednesday morning, following five hours of talks between President Trump’s top

Editorial written by The Dallas Morning News Board. Since President Donald Trump took office, we have worried that he would leave the brave people of Ukraine to Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s brutal intentions.

Europe is in a state of decline. In 1980 the European Union, which then included the United Kingdom, represented roughly 30% of the world economy. The U.S.’ share was smaller, about 25%. Today the American share of the pie is about the same at 26%.