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We don’t want to live in Putin’s world,
When we design this peace process, we have to design security guarantees, which will make this [geopolitical] goal for Putin impossible to achieve,
Russia’s relentless invasion demands lasting international security guarantees. Any peace deal must confront Russia’s hostility to safeguard Ukraine and the very foundations of freedom and democracy,
Matviichuk said in a statement I’m not looking to hurt Russia,
Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social platform We need to make it very clear to the Kremlin that any attack against a NATO member is going to cost and have consequences,
said Jurkonis, who also teaches politics at Lithuania's Vilnius University While every president has complained that European countries don’t do enough, there never was a question about American commitment,
Russia is preparing for a war with the West,
German foreign intelligence chief Bruno Kahl said in a November speech Anybody who isn’t worried hasn’t been paying attention,
Europe must be prepared for the most extreme military contingencies,
a spokesperson for the bloc told NBC News in an email when asked whether the continent was preparing for a worst case scenario of war with Russia NATO has to pay more,
Our army keeps advancing all along the frontline, the enemy keeps falling back,
he told an end-of-year news conference Putin is ready. We are waiting for signals (from Washington). Everyone is ready. It is difficult to read the coffee grounds here. As soon as there is something, if there is something, we will inform you."
Russian Government spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday, per Reuters Seems to me that Putin is signaling to Trump that he is willing to make 'a deal' Peskov saying Kremlin opening to restart missile control deals remember very first thing Biden did in 2021 in first week was renew Start III missile deal - first Cold War era arms deal to be renewed. it was seen as a breakthru at the time. now Putin is offering to start Trumps presidency in the same war...."
On the subject of nuclear disarmament, Ben Aris, a former reporter focused on Russia, wrote on X Amid increased conflict behavior and intensified geopolitical rivalry, global risks of a military confrontation between large players, including nuclear powers, are heightening,
Shoigu, who leads the Kremlin's security council, told Tass There are misrepresentations when people describe this as potential peacekeeping,
Putin would never say yes to this,” and European nations would be unlikely to go ahead if Putin makes it clear it's a red line
said Boris Bondarev, a former Russian diplomat who quit his role in protest after the war started Russia considers it necessary to resume disarmament negotiations as soon as possible, especially since the legal framework in the area of arms control has been significantly undermined, and not through the fault of the Russian Federation,
The problem is that — and Trump has consistently made this point — in Europe, we are underspending in terms of defense,
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said at Davos, but The problem, of course, is that we are not yet all at 2%. That’s problem No. 1,
Secondly, because we know it is, yes, Ukraine, but it is also about how China and North Korea and Iran and Russia are all working together. And this is, this is basically testimony to the fact that this is not only a European conflict, it is a geopolitical issue, a geopolitical conflict which is being fought out,
