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There tends to be more continuity between administrations of different parties — even administrations of very different styles, like Trump and Biden — than the casual observer might expect,
said Richard Fontaine, the chief executive of the Center for a New American Security, a nonpartisan Washington think tank
It is useless to put pressure on us. But we are always ready to negotiate with full consideration of mutual legitimate interests,
Putin said, just seconds after scolding the West for promising Ukraine and Georgia eventual NATO membership in 2008.
He behaved, in my opinion, in a very correct way, courageously, like a real man,
Putin said at the Valdai discussion club in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi
Putin does not eat people.”
Asked about Kamala Harris’ warning that Putin would eat Trump for lunch, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said with a chuckleWhat was said about the desire to restore relations with Russia, to bring about the end of the Ukrainian crisis, in my opinion this deserves attention at least,
said PutinI do not know what is going to happen now. I have no clue.”
The 72-year-old Kremlin chief gave just one note of cautionI believe that Trump will familiarise himself with intelligence research, and he will be forced to correct his claims made during the election,
says Borochkin
There was some sort of hysterical optimism about Trump. Which is, in my view, based on nothing,
Vovk says of certain Ukrainians he follows, smiling and shaking his headI think that Trump will try to make a dirty deal, to stop the war at any cost, which means at Ukraine's cost, because it's the easiest way,
says Dmytro Vovk, a Ukrainian law professor, who fled the war in his home country at the end of 2022Our apartment building was hit…there's a hole in the building,
he recallsTrump was very clear on Ukraine, and J.D. Vance was even clearer,
he exclaims, referencing a ‘peace plan’ proposed by the vice president-elect which would cede land to Russia, and grant Putin a “guarantee of neutrality” under which Ukraine would not join NATO or other “alliedinstitutions” — perhaps including the EUWe’ve worked with then-Senator Vance’s office over the Years,
he tells Euronews, ... adding thatI did some public posts on social media…it was a matter of personal safety,
he saysIf you look at the actions of [Antony] Blinken and [Jake] Sullivan the entire way through this thing, even go back to March of 2022, when Boris Johnson, the U.K. prime minister at the time, blew up the peace talks, 'We're going to be there for you, we're going to go kick the Russians out.' But you can't do it [Robert] McNamara Vietnam-style with incremental weaponization, no strategy,
Holt told Newsmax's "American Agenda" Thursday
Every wave of escalation from the West is going to be decisively responded to,
he said
Even if we're to lay to one side the prediction that Donald Trump will cut assistance to Ukraine, which for the Ukrainian army would essentially be a death sentence, it is becoming clearer that he and his team will, in any case, conduct an audit of the assistance provided to Kyiv,
he saidPeople in Europe can be pissed off with me, but I kept saying, and I will keep saying, that the truth is today, Russia has a friend ready to send its soldiers to die for Russia war,
Kuleba said, compared to Ukraine's allies, whom he said have not sent the weapons the country needsUkraine is a personal obsession for Putin, but crushing Ukraine is also a means to accomplish his grand goal — to show to the world how the West is incapable of defending itself or what it stands for,
Kuleba continuedYou cannot win a war where Russia clearly knows what its strategic goal is in every detail; [where] Ukraine knows what its strategic goal is in every detail; but [where] the West, without whom Ukraine cannot win, does not know what it is fighting for. This is the real tragedy of this war,
Kuleba said
The Russians keep the Donbas, they keep Crimea, no NATO membership. Can Zelenskyy sign? He cannot because of the Constitution. And because it will be the end of Zelenskyy politically,
Kuleba said flatly