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The most powerful leverage Trump has on Ukraine is to threaten non-delivery of weapons. We have, in my view, six months before we would really start to feel the lack of weapons on the front line.”
Former Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told POLITICO A Dictator without Elections, Zelensky better move fast or he is not going to have a Country left,
Mr Trump said on TruthSocial We must keep dialling up the economic pressure to get Putin to a point where he is ready not just to talk, but to make concessions.”
As the UK unveiled its biggest package of sanctions on Russia since the war began, the Labour chief said We should get to three per cent by 2030.”
Boris, speaking in Kyiv, said As Europeans, we need to organise . . . with the Brits and the Norwegians . . . to face the new challenges presented to us, also by Trump.”
I don't use those words lightly. I think that we're going to see how it all works out. Let's see what happens. I think we have a chance of a really good settlement between various countries."
When asked if he would use the same "dictator" description for Putin, Trump told reporters And you know, you're talking about Europe, and you're talking about Ukraine as part of that whole situation, the other side has a lot of a lot of support also. So, let's see how it all works out,
I don't use those words lightly,
the US president responded We have sovereign countries in Europe who take decisions on their own militaries,
It won't be a deal that will show Trump as a great winner and great dealmaker. He will be with this huge mess and I hope he will realise it before entering into anything like that."
To increase defence spending to 3% or 4% of GDP, it kind of sounds very radical and politically difficult for many European countries today,
It looks like blackmail. Ukraine has to keep in mind that once you give in to blackmail, it never ends,
Europe can produce large supplies of ammunition, or purchase them from other countries, including the US, a scenario the Trump administration has discussed. They could also buy ammunition, for example, for HIMARS and Patriot systems in the same way or set up production in the EU,
The situation with artillery supplies was critical, but the front didn’t collapse and the Russians scored no strategic successes,
Think of it, a modestly successful comedian, Volodymyr Zelensky, talked the United States of America into spending $350 Billion Dollars, to go into a War that couldn’t be won, that never had to start, but a War that he, without the U.S. and “TRUMP,” will never be able to settle, ... Zelensky better move fast or he is not going to have a country left
Trump wrote last week, before warning The old days of America supporting Europe are over
Zelensky said in a message to his European counterparts as much as to his own people There is a clear parallel between the procession of leaders heading to Trump’s court in Washington to try to cajole him and the period at the end of 2021, beginning of 2022 when the same process was happening to try to convince Putin to not invade Ukraine,
European countries are hamstrung by their inability to exert military power, the only currency that holds any sway in deterring Russia and the US,
After everything that they have suffered, after everything that they have fought for, there could be no discussion about Ukraine without Ukraine, and the people of Ukraine must have a long-term secure future.”
Starmer told the Scottish Labour Party conference in Glasgow on Sunday No decisions about Ukraine without Ukraine. … Europe must have a seat at the table when decisions about Europe are being made,
Zelenskyy said on February 15 at the Munich Security Conference
