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While many see potential for stronger US support under Trump, there remains widespread concern about his past remarks on Ukraine's sovereignty and his ability to broker a sustainable peace."
Our research highlights the nuanced and often ambivalent perspectives Ukrainians have toward Donald Trump's presidency."
Professor Olga Onuch of the University of Manchester, the project's lead researcher, said in a story published on her university's website Our effort to reach a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine are now hopefully underway. It is so important to get that done. Millions of soldiers are getting killed. Millions of Russians and millions of Ukrainians. It has to end,
What they're saying ... Trump said in his video address to Davos attendees He liked the idea of cutting down... Putin wanted to do it. China would have joined. It would have been an unbelievable thing for the planet,
Well, we'll look into that. We're talking to Zelensky,
I’m not looking to hurt Russia,
Easy way or the hard way
Trump squares up to Putin with chilling threat We're going to be talking with President Putin very soon, and we'll see what, how it all happens. We're going to look at it.”
I think Russia's going to be in big trouble,
I love Europe, I love the countries of Europe.”
Still, while Trump has previously slammed NATO members for their lackluster defense spending and other perceived ills, on Thursday in his WEF address he seemed to strike a conciliatory tone, saying Zelenskyy told me he wants to make a deal.” ... I don’t know if Putin does … He might not. I think he should make a deal. I think he’s destroying Russia by not making a deal,
But, he added in the Oval Office on the first day of his second presidency ... a reference to the country’s failing economy and inflation Well you’re gonna have to ask Russia. Ukraine is ready to make a deal.”
Asked whether he believed the war in Ukraine would end by the time the WEF returned to Davos in a year, Trump said It’s time to end it.”
Russia is not the Gaza Strip. And starting a dialogue with ultimatums is not the most far-sighted move on the part of a leader claiming to be a peacemaker. Moscow will never agree to any deals dictated by blackmail and threats,
It confirms that his level of understanding of the causes, current state and prospects for resolving the Ukrainian crisis is approximately at the same level as his understanding of the course and outcome of World War II,
Kosachyov said in a statement Trump could have afforded to take his time (on Ukraine), but he has decided not to drag things out and is slowly starting to apply pressure (on Russia),
Gallyamov wrote on his blog Is that any way to talk to great Russia?,
an angry Solovyov told his listeners We carefully record all the nuances. We remain ready for dialogue, President Putin has repeatedly spoken about this — for equal dialogue, for mutually respectful dialogue,
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters We have to change the trajectory of the war,
If Ukraine loses then to restore the deterrence of the rest of Nato again, it will be a much, much higher price than what we are contemplating at this moment in terms of ramping up our spending and ramping up our industrial production,
