Blaine Holt to Newsmax: US Has 'Leverage' for Ukraine-Russia Agreement

But any role in helping to guarantee Ukraine’s security is helping to guarantee the security of our continent and the security of this country,

Starmer said

Marco Rubiosecretary of State

I don’t have any details for you this morning, other than to say that we stand ready to follow the president’s lead on this and begin to explore ways, if those opportunities present itself, to begin a process towards peace,

Rubio said

Keir Starmerprime Minister

I do not say that lightly,

Starmer said in an op-ed published in the Daily Telegraph

They have a big powerful machine, you understand that. They defeated Hitler and they defeated Napoleon. They’ve been fighting a long time,

Trump told reporters after a flight on Air Force One

Marco Rubiosecretary of State

Now, obviously, it has to be followed up by action. So, the next few weeks and days will determine whether it’s serious or not,

Rubio said in an interview with CBS’s Face the Nation

There’s no time set, but it could be very soon,

Trump told reporters on Sunday ahead of talks between US and Russian officials in Saudi Arabia

It’ll be soon; we’ll see what happens,

Trump added when asked if a meeting could happen this month

We pray and we ask God Almighty to bless this very good and Christian desire."

Vestratiy said

From the point of religious view, this is a liberation of Ukrainians from [the] Godless West, from the evil. And Russia brings to Ukraine the light and truth."

His eminence Metropolitan Yevstratiy, the deputy head of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine's external church relations, says of Russia

… Ukraine mounted and sustained a fierce resistance that denied Russia the quick victory Putin anticipated in February 2022, Russian justifications for the war began to take on a new coloration: The war was now a crusade in defense of Christian civilization."

Writing in the magazine First Things, Weigel noted

I don’t know who wrote the speech — it is the kind of thing Tucker Carlson could have written, and Carlson is a fool,

Wicker added

Jack Reed (Rhode Island politician)senator

Secretary Hegseth’s recent diplomatic blunders make President Trump look weak, and undermine future negotiations for peace in Ukraine,

Reed said in a statement

Hegseth is going to be a great defense secretary, although he wasn’t my choice for the job,

the Republican told the outlet at the Munich Security Conference

Ukrainians have a right to be at the table, whether or not we go back to pre-2014 is a legitimate question. That that wasn't involved in this conflict,

he said

The people at the table have to involve Ukraine,

he said

And if it comes down to it that the Ukrainians have the ability to share some of the means to defray some of the cost of our support, well, that's completely moral,

said Holt

There are endless leaders in front of President Zelensky to say, these are the cards you have and this is what it looks like going forward,

he added

Unfortunately, money is driving such a sick element of this,

Holt said

Two elements are now present where they weren't present before with the arrival of the Trump administration, ... What we've got now is strategy and diplomacy, all of the leverage."

Holt said on Newsmax's "Sunday Agenda."

I think the important thing is that whatever concessions are made on either side, that it is not a temporary truce,

King said