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And so President Trump isn’t getting drawn into that in unnecessary ways, and as a result, we’re closer to peace today than ever before,
The war didn’t need to happen. It was provoked,
he added later in his answer I think that President Putin and President Zelenskyy are going to have to get together, because you know what? We want to stop killing millions of people,
… the threat that I worry the most about vis-a-vis Europe is not Russia, it’s not China, it’s not any other external actor. What I worry about is the threat from within. The retreat of Europe from its most fundamental values.”
It was the words that followed that sent shockwaves across Europe [t ... t]he Trump administration … believes we can come to a reasonable settlement between Russia and Ukraine”.
J.D. Vance’s speech touched on Ukraine in just half a sentence [T ... T]he crisis this continent faces right now … is one of your own making.”
He told the astonished audience [S]tark strategic realities prevent the United States of America being primarily focused on the security of Europe … The US is prioritising deterring war with China in the Pacific, recognising the reality of scarcity and making resourcing trade-offs. … As the United States prioritises its attention to these threats, European allies must lead from the front.”
On the future US relationship with Europe, he said Against the will of Hungary and the Hungarians, Ukraine will never be a member of the European Union,
Orban said at his annual State of the Nation address in Budapest There are no American obligations in the agreement regarding guarantees or investments, everything about them is very vague, and they want to extract $500 billion from us,
the Ukrainian source told AFP of the proposed deal The scary part of that is that there is only one source he could have heard this from, and that is the Russians. No one else would claim anything like that, because his level of support is way higher than that. It's over 50% like it or not."
There's some of the rhetoric coming out of Kyiv, frankly, and insults to President Trump that were unacceptable."
Putin hates Zelenskyy because he ruined his plans to subjugate Ukraine. And he dreams of getting a pro-Russian candidate after a grueling war.”
Sergey Lagondinsky, a member of the European Parliament for Germany’s Green Party who grew up in Russia in Soviet times, wrote recently Everyone will be accusing each other of being at fault at the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion,
said Oleh Saakyan, co-founder of the National Platform for Resilience and Cohesion, a civic group Only after the end of the war and the achievement of a stable peace … will it be possible to organize elections freely, fairly, democratically, and accessibly,
Who can run a campaign in a time of war?”
We have Russian-occupied territory where people will not be able to vote and will not be able to make their own choice,
The president’s seat right now is an electric chair,
The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters.”
As the Italian communist Antonio Gramsci wrote I had an hour call with Jake Sullivan in the White House begging, 'Jake, avoid the war. You can avoid the war. All you have to do is say, NATO will not enlarge to Ukraine,
Sachs said at an event called "The Geopolitics of Peace." Today I heard: ‘Oh, well, we weren’t invited.’ Well, you’ve been there for three years… you should have never started it. You could have made a deal.”
Speaking to journalists at Mar-a-Lago, Trump said
