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This is highly inappropriate, to put it bluntly, and – honestly – we don’t even know what the outcome will be.”
German chancellor Olaf Scholz described talk of boots on the ground as “premature”, adding We see it all through history, that the way in which you settle one war can, if you’re not careful, lead to a bigger war later, because it leaves both sides with an incentive to go back to fighting."
Lord Hague warned of "great danger", saying The practical reality is that there’s going to be some discussion of territory and there’s going to be discussion of security guarantees, those are just fundamental basics,
The appearance of troops from NATO countries … under a foreign flag, the flag of the European Union or the national flag, is unacceptable,
And so there’s a huge danger of this here, that this is the prelude to a wider war in later years. And Trump and his team are not really showing the awareness of that. So that’s the biggest worry in this whole thing.”
This needs to be a permanent end to the war and not a temporary end as we’ve seen in the past,
said US national security adviser Mike Waltz, who accompanied Mr Rubio and US president Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff to the talks
