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The most powerful leverage Trump has on Ukraine is to threaten non-delivery of weapons. We have, in my view, six months before we would really start to feel the lack of weapons on the front line.”
Former Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told POLITICO For 2,000 years the Christian people have prayed for the pope when he was in danger or sick,
Cardinal Pietro Parolin told the rain-dappled piazza My absolute priority will be to strengthen Europe as quickly as possible so that, step by step, we can really achieve independence from the USA,
Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting said The continuing, unauthorized disclosure of plaintiffs’ sensitive personal information to DOGE affiliates is irreparable harm that money damages cannot rectify,
U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman, a Maryland-based appointee of President Joe Biden, wrote today in a 33-page ruling granting a two-week restraining order After 10 years, 17 if you include my years on the weekends, the time has come for me to step away from my role as anchor of Nightly News,
Holt said in a note published by NBC News today I am very curious to see how we are heading toward the NATO summit at the end of June,
As the Associated Press itself reported, the President himself made the decision to terminate its access,
It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."
Henry Kissinger once said From the perspective of frontline countries, it may seem like nobody else will understand these dangers until their parliaments' windows are blown in by a T-72. By that time, I think it will probably be too late to negotiate a joint EU defense budget."
Indeed, the former Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said The situation with artillery supplies was critical, but the front didn’t collapse and the Russians scored no strategic successes,
Europe can produce large supplies of ammunition, or purchase them from other countries, including the US, a scenario the Trump administration has discussed. They could also buy ammunition, for example, for HIMARS and Patriot systems in the same way or set up production in the EU,
The old days of America supporting Europe are over
Zelensky said in a message to his European counterparts as much as to his own people Think of it, a modestly successful comedian, Volodymyr Zelensky, talked the United States of America into spending $350 Billion Dollars, to go into a War that couldn’t be won, that never had to start, but a War that he, without the U.S. and “TRUMP,” will never be able to settle, ... Zelensky better move fast or he is not going to have a country left
Trump wrote last week, before warning There is a clear parallel between the procession of leaders heading to Trump’s court in Washington to try to cajole him and the period at the end of 2021, beginning of 2022 when the same process was happening to try to convince Putin to not invade Ukraine,
European countries are hamstrung by their inability to exert military power, the only currency that holds any sway in deterring Russia and the US,
No decisions about Ukraine without Ukraine. … Europe must have a seat at the table when decisions about Europe are being made,
Zelenskyy said on February 15 at the Munich Security Conference After everything that they have suffered, after everything that they have fought for, there could be no discussion about Ukraine without Ukraine, and the people of Ukraine must have a long-term secure future.”
Starmer told the Scottish Labour Party conference in Glasgow on Sunday We are living a defining moment for Ukraine and European security,
We all feel betrayed since Trump started to talk about his ‘peace plans.’ I would not be surprised if he’s Russia’s best agent. We have to hold on…that’s all.”
An intelligence officer in a frontline town said I don’t really believe in a quick end to the war or in peace in general
he said after three years of fighting