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To discuss that with a non-NATO member … I don’t believe it is advantageous to any negotiation,
Sendak said, noting
They’ve committed atrocities on the Ukrainian population in the areas they occupy. I would expect that would get worse the further west the Russians move and the more they move into the hardest traditional anti-Russian, pro-Western areas of western Ukraine. The horrors will be unspeakable,
he predictedIt is too early at this time to speak about deploying troops to Ukraine as there is no peace at the moment."
On the idea of sending peacekeeping troops to Ukraine, Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares recently said
Poland will support Ukraine as it has done so far: organizationally, in accordance with our financial capabilities, in terms of humanitarian and military aid. We do not plan to send Polish soldiers to the territory of Ukraine. We will ... give logistical and political support to the countries that will possibly want to provide such guarantees in the future, such physical guarantees."
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk recently spoke about the idea of sending troops to Ukraine and according to Reuters, he said[It is] completely premature and the completely wrong time to have this discussion now. Here, people are talking over Ukraine's head about the outcome of peace talks that never took place, to which Ukraine did not say yes and was not at the table, about possible outcomes. That is highly inappropriate. We don't even know what the outcome will be."
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz also spoke out against sending troops to Ukraine to act as peacekeepers, and according to the German newspaper Welt, he said
I’ve been in and around defense for a long time, and I’ve never seen anything like this,
Trevor Taylor, a director at the Royal United Services Institute, or RUSI, a London-based think tank, said of the cracks in the transatlantic alliance
We need a surge in European defense spending,
she told attendees at the Munich Security Conference
The United States will no longer tolerate an imbalanced relationship which encourages dependency,
Hegseth told a coalition of more than 50 countries coordinating the delivery of military equipment to Ukraine, during a visit to BrusselsThere is a recognition that Europeans should… do as much as possible for themselves,
he addedAll big countries in Europe tend to develop… their own aircraft, their own tank, their own ship,
he said,Putin would not accept any NATO troops in Ukraine, and it looks as if the Americans will probably give in to that demand of his,
Wilsey said
Putin wants a multinational force in there which would have… let’s just say Bolivians, Zimbabweans, Pakistanis… and he will know that the rules of engagement of those countries won’t allow them to fight back if he kicks off again,
Wilsey warnedTrump, although he does seem to be throwing the Ukrainians and us Europeans under a Russian bus at the moment, we know how transactional he is,
he saidSo the question is, if it is a bad deal, has Europe got the unity, the military strength, the political will to continue to support Ukraine in its war with Russia?”
He said
It's certainly an innovative approach to a negotiation - to make very major concessions even before they have started.
The feeling was perhaps summed up best by former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt, who sarcastically remarked on Hegseth's speech
I feel very deeply the responsibility that comes with potentially putting British servicemen and women in harm's way,
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I know Mar-a-Lago is quite close to Disney World, but that was pure Disney in both sort of facts and reality
Former defence secretary Sir Ben Wallace said.jpg)
The UK and US must send the message that we don't let tyrants win.
Former foreign secretary James Cleverly, meanwhile, saidThink of it, a modestly successful comedian, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, 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 US and 'TRUMP,' will never be able to settle,
Trump wroteI love Ukraine, but Zelenskyy has done a terrible job, his Country is shattered, and MILLIONS have unnecessarily died – And so it continues...
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