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We don't need members of the cabinet, President Trump's cabinet, to be defining those in the public,
Turner said on CNN on Friday I don’t know who wrote the speech — it is the kind of thing Tucker Carlson could have written, and Carlson is a fool,
Senator Roger Wicker, the Republican who leads the Pentagon's main oversight committee in the Senate, told Politico, referring to the conservative media personality who was once a Fox News host Roger's a very good friend of mine, and, Pete is obviously, he's been doing a great job,
I thought his comments were good yesterday, and they're probably good today,
I think probably that's true,"
Trump broadly backed Hegseth's remarks on Thursday on NATO membership, saying I surely did, yes."
Asked whether he spent a lot of political capital getting Hegseth, a military veteran and former Fox News personality, confirmed, Wicker said Putin has made a lot of mistakes in starting the war and conducting the war and everything else,
Senate Foreign Relations Chair Jim Risch (R-Idaho) told Fox News People in the administration know you don’t say before your first meeting what you will agree to and what you won’t agree to,
Senate Armed Services Chair Roger Wicker said in an interview with POLITICO at the Munich Security Conference They express concern about the mixed messages coming out of this administration,
Trump is stronger than Putin,
he said Friday at the Munich conference It doesn’t matter to me who Trump calls, or when he calls,
The good news is everybody’s talking about getting together to talk,
A good outcome means the war stops, 80% of Ukraine is free, and there are security guarantees for Ukraine sufficient that Russia won't start the war again. That is a strategic victory for Ukraine,
They're all over the map, they have trouble getting a disciplined line, but they haven't ruled anything out. They've covered the position in a cloud of ambiguity and uncertainty,
In Ukraine we watch this in frustration. Unlike in the Middle East, in our case Trump is pressing America's ally and not its adversary,
says Andriy Taranov, a board member of Ukraine's public broadcasting company Putin will demand the limitation of Ukraine's military potential, that no Western weapons or troops be stationed in Ukraine. He will aim to restrict Ukraine's path to joining the EU and NATO, and seek the amendment of the Ukraine's constitution to make Russian an official language, and try to impose federalization."
Looking ahead, the former foreign minister believes If he's willing to abandon Ukraine's right to territorial integrity and its right to independent foreign policy, what demands is he still able to make of Putin?"
I do not share the opinion that the US will negotiate with Russia without Ukraine,
said Volodymyr Fesenko, CEO of Penta, a center for political studies in Kyiv Who will participate in them? Will the carrot or the stick be used? No one can answer that today, because it depends on many factors that are known only to the ones negotiating. I won't speculate over whether Trump has abandoned any positions before the start of negotiations,
Not only must we sit at the negotiating table, we must also take on a proactive role, especially with regard to the Trump administration, and tell them what is possible and what is not,
