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I’m not the one that declares a red line or not. I work with the president, as we work through these issues, but we believed that it was useful just to speak some reality into the conversation. Ultimately, President Trump is the only one who’s gonna determine if there’s wiggle room or movement on any particular position."
That’s not a definitive value statement,
I think what I articulated yesterday, in consultation with senior leadership in the White House and the Oval Office of the president, was the reality of the moment — that NATO membership was unlikely considering the realities of where we are. No one’s throwing a stake in the ground for 25 years from now or any defined period of time,
Crimea, realistically speaking, won't come back to Ukraine. That's going to be part of the brokered deal. I think we're going to have to once again reinforce that idea; we're going to secure Ukraine as an ally like we did in the original peace talks."
He wants peace" ... What can I bring to the table?"
McCormick went on to praise Trump as "obviously a strong president," adding Obviously, [Russian President Vladimir] Putin has totally different ideas. If you listen to his rhetoric, it's something out of Peter the Great. You can see the books on the shelf literally speaking for him where he talks about even what Catherine the Great talked about, 'I can only secure my borders by expanding them.'
I've been to Ukraine. I've actually met with [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelenskyy and actually talked about the options that they had on the table, what they were willing to accept."
In my view it would have been better to speak about a possible Nato membership for Ukraine or possible losses of territory at the negotiating table,
There will be a bilateral Russian-American track of this dialogue, and a track that will be related to Ukraine’s involvement,
said Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesperson The previous US administration held the view that everything needed to be done to keep the war going. The current administration, as far as we understand, adheres to the point of view that everything must be done to stop the war and for peace to prevail,
Why are we giving them [Russia] everything that they want even before the negotiations have been started?”
Kallas, a former Estonian prime minister said We know who the good guys are and who the bad guys are,
Hegseth said behind closed doors, ... according to Healey We have not said in any way we are abandoning our allies in Europe. There have been no decisions on troop levels, but that’s a discussion to be had by the commander-in-chief in these high-stakes negotiations,
The peace dividend has to end,
Hegseth said, though he refused to say 3.4 per cent is a very robust investment, ... Ultimately we have our own budgetary considerations.”
It is clear that any deal behind our backs will not work,
she told journalists at the meeting But simply pointing out realism, like the borders will not be rolled back to what everybody would like them to be in 2014, is not a concession to Vladimir Putin. It's a recognition of hard power realities on the ground, after a lot of investment in sacrifice, first by the Ukrainians and then by allies, and then a realisation that a negotiated peace is going to be some sort of demarcation that neither side wants,
the US secretary of defense said The arguments that have been made that somehow coming to the table right now is making concessions to Vladimir Putin outright that we otherwise or that the president of the United States should not otherwise make... I just reject that,
These negotiations are led by President [Donald] Trump. Everything is on the table in his conversations with Vladimir Putin and [Volodymyr] Zelensky. What he decides to allow or not allow is at the prevue of the leader of the free world, of President Trump. I'm not going to stand at this podium and declare what President Trump will do or won't do,
Hegseth said in Brussels, Belgium as he departs two days of meetings on the future of Ukraine with European counterparts at NATO headquarters There must be no compromise at the expense of Ukrainian territorial integrity and sovereignty,
Ukrainian foreign minister Andrii Sybiha told French publication Le Monde
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