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I want to thank President Putin for his time and effort with respect to this call,
Trump said afterward
I’d love to have them back. I think it was a mistake to throw them out,
he told reporters in the Oval Office the day after the Putin callWe both reflected on the Great History of our Nations, and the fact that we fought so successfully together in World War II,
he saidIf you’re running in fear of your own voters, there is nothing America can do for you,
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We absolutely agree with the American administration.
The Kremlin's official spokesman Dmitry Peskov gloated yesterday
Russia's highly censored state television has, over the past two years, consistently promoted the rape of Ukrainians, the drowning of children, the levelling of cities, the eradication of the Ukrainian elite, and the physical extermination of millions of Ukrainians.
An insight into just how traumatic rule by Moscow could be has been given by Foreign Policy magazine
If we don't, the United States will withdraw from Europe,
Aaltola added
The British Army is suffering from the cumulative effects of 40 years of decline,
Drummond said
My sense is we can cope, but it is in dire need of investment for the modern battlefield,
the lawmaker told CNNWe do not want to fracture our relationship with America,
British defense analyst Nicholas Drummond told CNNThe way in which this was delivered – blow after blow after blow, within days – that was a real shock” for the continent
said Armida van Rij, a senior research fellow and head of the Europe Programme at London-based think tank Chatham HouseEuropean heads of government should have been getting together … to figure out what the European plan was going to be. But that hasn’t really happened.”
From the moment of Trump’s election victory, van Rij saidIt will be very difficult for the military in our current situation,
admitted an MP from the governing Labour party, who has pushed the government to go beyond its planned hike to military spending, which stands at 2.3% of GDP but is set to rise to 2.5% in the coming yearsBiden got a lot of kit in before the inauguration. Kit is still going in
one saidEurope can no longer fully rely on the United States to defend our shared values and interests.”
The leaders of the center-right European People’s Party, the Socialists and Democrats, the liberal Renew Europe and the Greens declaredWe now have an alliance between a Russian president who wants to destroy Europe and an American president who also wants to destroy Europe,
another European diplomat observed in recent days, declining to be identified discussing sensitive mattersWe were not fully satisfied with the wording of the assessment of the United States in the text … Now is the time for calm, measured dialogue and a focus on pragmatic solutions.”
A spokesperson for the European Conservatives and Reformists group, which includes Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party, explained why it didn’t sign the joint statementThis War is far more important to Europe than it is to us,
Trump wrote on social mediaUkraine’s security is Europe’s security,
the parties saidHe wants Europe to take more responsibility for its security to strengthen NATO,
the official said