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What we have right now is a call between Putin and President Trump in which both sides expressed an interest in ending this conflict,
I am going tonight. I'll be traveling there with the national security advisor, and we'll be having meetings at the direction of the president. And hopefully we'll make some really good progress with regard to Russia, Ukraine,
What I expect you to see, sir, is action as early as next week that is going to shock people about how good it is for Americans,
Hassett told Trump from the Oval Office on Friday We have more energy than any other country, and now we are unleashing it,
Trump said Friday from the Oval Office when he signed an executive order establishing the energy council On trade, I have decided for purposes of fairness that I will charge a reciprocal tariff , meaning whatever countries charge the United States of America, we will charge them, no more, no less. In other words, they charge us a tax or tariff, and we charge them the exact same tax or tariff, very simple,
Trump said at the White House of the tariff plan We're going to have a friendly meeting, very good. We have a lot of good things going on. But he asked to come and see me, and I just accepted his asking,
Those are details, and I'm not dismissive of the details, they're important. But I think the beginning here is trust-building. It's getting everybody to understand that this war does not belong continuing, that it should end. That's what the president has directed us to do,
The old days are over — when America supported Europe just because it always had,
I saw that someone said that there would be a meeting in Saudi Arabia. I do not know what it is,
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference on Saturday There is nothing on the negotiating table that would be worth discussing,
We have to end this in a way … that Putin will not capture one square mile or one square kilometer of Ukraine, ... I don’t think it will be a bad deal.”
I don’t know where this came from, or what they expect to be the outcome of these talks where we are not invited.”
One Ukrainian official at the conference expressed exasperation at the news, saying I think our problem in Europe quite often is that, you know, we talk a lot and we do a little. Right now the ball is in our court,
Would I prefer the United States not to be speaking directly with Russia and certainly having Ukraine and Europe involved? Yes, I would prefer that,
Finnish President Alexander Stubb said during an interview at the POLITICO Pub Only in the perverse world of Trump diplomacy is the larger invading country given more respect than the country that was invaded — and that the country responsible for horrific war crimes was given the best chance for peace,
said Mike Quigley, a Democrat from Illinois and co-chair of the Congressional Ukraine Caucus Everyone who met with Kellogg here looks like he’s collecting information and not giving it,
said Oleksiy Goncharenko, a Ukrainian lawmaker I don’t care if [Trump] meets Putin in Cleveland. I don’t care if they talk. I don’t care if they go on vacation. It doesn’t matter to me what you do as long as you get it right,
said Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina and a close Trump ally Well, this is not a serious conversation, it seems to me.”
On the prospect of talks without Ukraine at the table, he said We will also not accept any solution that leads to a decoupling of European and American security. Only one person would benefit from this: President Putin,
There’s no way in which we can have discussions or negotiations about Ukraine, Ukraine’s future or European security structure, without Europeans,
Stubb told reporters in Munich
