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The pressure just can’t be military. You have to put economic pressure, you have to put diplomatic pressure,
And if there’s anybody who understands leverage, it’s President Donald J. Trump,
Kellogg said in the interview Our teams will be working together. Because there can’t be a separate plan, created without us,
Zelenskyy said on Thursday Very frankly, both sides in any negotiation have to give; that’s just the way it is in negotiations,
For Russia, this is kind of in their DNA in military operations – basically, you're in an attrition fight. If you look at history, you'd never want to get into an attrition fight with the Russians, because that’s how they fight. They're used to it. I mean, this is a country that was willing to lose – and did – 700,000 in the Battle of Stalingrad in six months, and they didn’t blink an eye,
Solving the Russia-Ukraine war is really all hands on deck for the entire administration, so a whole-of-government approach. We got the national security team talking about it – the president, vice president, national security adviser, secretaries of State [and] Treasury, National Security Council, working all together,
I think we have some opportunities, and fortunately, I'm working for the master deals. He wrote 'The Art of the Deal'. I wouldn’t put anything past him,
That is not a strategy, it's a bumper sticker,
You have to put economic pressure, you have to put diplomatic pressure, some type of military pressures and levers that you’re going to use underneath those to make sure [this goes] where we want it to go,
Trump's special Ukraine envoy explained I've had a thorough discussion with the special envoy and his team and my colleagues: defence attaché General [Borys] Kremenetskyi and my deputy Denys Sienik."
We're going to have great discussions with senior leaders in the European environment and bring back what we've found out to the President of the United States and then go from then."
If we get a bad deal, it would only mean that we will see the president of Russia high-fiving with the leaders of North Korea, Iran and China, and we cannot accept that,
As you develop the plans to end this carnage, you have to make sure that you've got the feel of everybody in play,
Remember, the president said we're a government of common sense,
That’s one of the reasons I’m going next week to Europe, to actually see them face-to-face,