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Make no mistake, Trump's and the Kremlin's messaging about the talks and the potential peace deal looks like a huge relief and discursive victory for Russia...from the Russian point of view, this is already a great PR victory."
Kirill Shamiev, policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, told Newsweek By excluding the prospect of NATO membership for Ukraine and by shifting the burden of future European security on Europeans, U.S. officials already have deprived themselves of important levers they could have used in a future negotiation, to push Russia into concessions,
Putin will have won this war from this point of view,
This war and suffering could have easily been avoided if Biden Admin/Nato had simply acknowledged Russia's legitimate security concerns,
As NATO expands to the east, with every passing year, the situation for our country is getting worse and more dangerous,
he said in a televised address, immediately before his forces launched their assault I don't pay attention to Russian propaganda."
Gabbard has rejected claims that she had The parallels with 1938 could only be clearer if Trump had held up a note and said Mr Putin had assured him he had no further territorial ambitions in Europe,
Giles told Newsweek, referring to British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's appeasement of Hitler before World War Two The anti-Russia project has been rejected by millions of Ukrainians. The people of Crimea and residents of Sevastopol made their historic choice,
There can’t be negotiations around Ukraine without Ukraine being at the heart of it,
There is a big worry that Trump is a clumsy negotiator, he will cede crazy things to Russia,
the diplomat said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters History has shown time and again that appeasement fails,
British lawmaker David Reed, who used to serve in the Royal Marines, told POLITICO in a statement I don't see any way that a country in Russia's position could allow them, just in their position, could allow them to join NATO,
I thought his comments were good yesterday and probably good today
Conversations about money and capabilities matter but so does the parallel conversation about people and psychology, We have looked at Ukraine as indeed the good fight, but we still don’t feel it is our fight. Until and unless we do, we will keep on having these conversations about trade-offs, and if we spend a little bit more we can keep Trump happy, but it is not going to be sufficient.”
At a recent Council on Foreign Relations discussion she said Russia’s war of aggression constitutes a tectonic shift in European history. At our meeting in Versailles, we discussed how the EU can live up to its responsibilities in this new reality, protecting our citizens, values, democracies, and our European model.”
Two months after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the EU responded with the portentous Versailles declaration stating Europe believes all of a sudden that working on defence is a good thing… Between that realisation and the reality of building a European defense industry it’s going to take many years and even many decades,
he told the Financial Times To many Americans it has seemed that a prosperous Western Europe was not making a reasonably proportionate contribution to the common defense effort,
One for all, all for one”
Her Estonian counterpart, Hanno Pevkur, cited the poet Alexandre Dumas I don’t think any UN troops or anything like that have ever really helped anyone,
he told the Guardian this week It just so happened at some point that the U.S. appointed itself the country-in-chief on our planet with the exclusive right to wage a hybrid war against our people, to mete out justice and grant pardons. It was a grave mistake, which nearly wiped humanity off the face of the earth,
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