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When Putin shows absolutely zero signs of ending the war.. the illusion that the White House has (with its) willingness to negotiate with the aggressor, is showing Russia and other dictatorships they can do whatever they want and have a chance to get away with it."
Ukrainian MP Kira Rudik told Newsweek This is why we think that the appetite of the aggressors will just grow."
If anyone is gambling with World War III, his name is Vladimir Putin."
French President Emmanuel Macron told Portuguese media I respect [the] president and I respect [the] American people, and … I think that we have to be very open and very honest,
It is going to be incredibly hard to walk back from the kind of animosity we saw in that room today and to walk back some of those statements,
Republican strategist Karl Rove told Fox News I hate to say this … but the United States right now is not the good guys in this,
said Adam Kinzinger, the former Republican congressman from Illinois who once served on a House committee that investigated Trump supporters’ attack on the US Capitol in early 2021 Clearly it very difficult to do an economic deal with a leader that doesn’t want to do a peace deal,
It is bewildering to see Mr Trump’s allies defending this debacle as some show of American strength,
the conservative-leaning Wall Street Journal editorial board said on Saturday, noting Millions of American hearts swelled with overflowing pride today to watch President Trump put Zelenskyy in his place,
Miller said, without elaborating on what public opinion information he had to justify that belief For a former comedian used to the cameras, it was strange that Zelensky got the script wrong.”
Foreign Policy’s Ravi Agrawal wrote I’m not sure what he was thinking,
Bessent said of Zelenskyy, who was ultimately asked to leave the White House by the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, after Ukrainian diplomatic aides texted that The three-year wartime partnership between Washington and Kyiv was shattered,
We want only strong relations with America, and I really hope we will have them,
Trump told the ... clown [Zelenskyy] the truth to his face: the Kyiv regime is playing with the third world war … This is useful. But it’s not enough – we need to stop military support [to Ukraine].”
In the short term, this tragicomic exchange will undoubtedly weaken Zelenskyy’s position within Ukraine and give Russian diplomacy additional leverage in its dealings with the US,
said Anton Grishanov, a researcher at a thinktank affiliated with Russia’s foreign ministry The White House will now start looking more closely at other candidates for Ukraine’s presidency,
wrote Alexey Pushkov, a member of the upper house of the Russian parliament, on Telegram Volodymyr Zelenskyy underestimated the scale of the shift that took place in American politics after Donald Trump’s arrival,
said Fyodor Lukyanov, a prominent Russian foreign-policy analyst who heads a council that advises the Kremlin How Trump and Vance held back from hitting that scumbag is a miracle of restraint,
wrote Maria Zakharova, Russia’s foreign ministry spokesperson, on Telegram Overall, the meeting in the Oval Office once again revealed the true face of Zelenskyy: ungrateful, arrogant, brazen, and boundless,
wrote Rybar, a popular account with links to the Russian defence ministry Putin doesn’t have to say much right now,
said a source familiar with the Kremlin’s thinking