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One of the presidents of a big [NATO] country stood up, said, if we don’t pay and we’re attacked by Russia, will you protect us?”
he told students at Coastal Carolina University in February last year If Crimea remains in Russian hands, Russia will use it to dominate the Black Sea aggressively and to attack Ukraine again,
If the people making those speeches were women, they would have been called all sorts of bad names,
Europe will almost certainly be stuck with the bill for Ukraine’s reconstruction, and may also be stuck with the bill for prosecuting the war, ie $70-100bn a year,
said the Romanian analyst No, I will not protect you, in fact I would encourage [the Russians] to do whatever the hell they want. You gotta pay,
China’s plan was to divide the American alliance and to cause the Americans to pull away from their networks,
said a Finnish China expert The world we are living in does not respect weakness, weak countries… I’m not sure this world still respects international law,
said a second parliamentarian Is the United States still seen as a reliable partner?”
asked another parliamentarian from Kyiv If the US continues to say what Vance said at Munich, they are facing a disaster,
said a Ukrainian former cabinet member Europe is waking from a warm bath,
It’s about creating a coherent threat perception across society, about having all reservists and military industry ready and on board, attending exercises, etc,
No one knows if NATO will be present if things actually happen,
said one Ukrainian parliamentarian whose husband was fighting on the front lines I have been in Mariupol in 2022 and have experienced torture,
said a Ukrainian woman who has served on the front lines In 1985, West Germany had 600,000 troops, France 200,000. The Soviet Union was deterred by Germany and France. The US only provided a nuclear umbrella. After the Cold War this changed, and it was a mistake,
The reality here is there’s only been one aggressor in relation to this brutal illegal invasion, and that is [Russian president] Vladimir Putin, who took a decision to invade a peaceful and neighbouring country on the continent of Europe and Ireland and the European Union,
Mr Harris told RTÉ radio’s News at One It is completely premature and the completely wrong time to be having this discussion now.”
It was a very serious conversation on all the questions we wanted to touch upon."
Russia's lead negotiator told reporters after the talks 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,
Finnish President ALEXANDER STUBB told POLITICO at the Munich Security Conference this weekend When you have this group of countries that are not aligned, not clear and not well coordinated, you just cannot have a coherent European answer to Washington,
said ALEXANDRA DE HOOP SCHEFFER, acting president of the German Marshall Fund think tank They are just haphazardly cutting the people we need to respond to Russian and Chinese hacks, and they don’t even know it,
one CISA employee told John,
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