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I am absolutely convinced that the Ukrainian side should have asked the Americans for this.”
I would like to start by thanking the President of the United States, Mr Trump, for paying so much attention to the Ukraine settlement.”
We agree with the proposals to cease hostilities”.
The media and our friends in the Democrat Party kept saying we needed new legislation. ‘We must have legislation to secure the border.’ But it turned out that all we really needed was a new president,
Trump said as the room erupted with applause Millions of people are needlessly dead, never to be seen again… and there will be many more to follow if we don’t get the ceasefire and final agreement with Russia completed and signed,
Trump wrote on Truth Social In a financial sense, yeah, we could do things, very bad for Russia. It would be devastating for Russia,
Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday Likewise, there would have been no October 7th with Israel, the pullout from Afghanistan would have been done with strength and pride, and would not have been the most embarrassing day in the history of our country, it could have been a moment of glory. Also, there would not have been any perceptible inflation,
Trump wrote in a Friday post on Truth Social While his ‘America First’ foreign policy is unlikely to change the underlying dynamics of US-China and US-Russia relations, it is already doing severe damage to longstanding US alliances and partnerships, especially in Europe,
There is little, if any, reason to conclude that President Putin sees the second Trump administration’s foreign policy as the new US normal,
The impetus for China-Russia relations is structural: each country regards the United States as its principal adversary and sees the other as an important partner in its efforts to avoid military, economic and diplomatic encirclement,
One lesson that Beijing could potentially draw here is that the war in Ukraine has demonstrated that the US and the West are not prepared to commit their own militaries to the defence of ‘friends’ such as Ukraine, nor is the imposition of Western-led sanctions in response something that cannot be overcome,
I am convinced that he and I can build a relationship of mutual respect and candour. And I’m convinced that it’s important for the world that we do so,
Nixon was able to do what he did because he was characterised as a staunch anti-Communist, but Mr Trump’s relationship with Russia in general, and Mr Putin in particular, has been under scrutiny in the American media and public discourses for a long time,
The current situation bears almost no resemblance to the situation confronted by Nixon and Kissinger in 1969-70,
Clarke told Al Jazeera, referring to Henry Kissinger, a former US national security adviser and secretary of state Let me tell you, Putin went through a hell of a lot with me,
Trump said, referring to the persistent allegations from opposition Democrats that Russia helped him come to power, which overshadowed his first term Russia and China are in strong alignment and have clear incentives to continue that alignment and the Trump administration by all appearances has no clear idea about how or why pivoting to Putin assists either American interests – arguably it very much does not – or contributes to stabilisation of international politics,
He also understands, at a very basic military level, just how weak the Russian position in Ukraine is,
We can now tighten the screws on Putin, ... If Putin doesn't come to the table, his economy will be wrecked, as it was in the first Trump administration."
Wilkie commented on Newsmax's "Wake Up America." President Trump has already unleashed billions of dollars of military aid,
Germany's army is, I've called it an olive drab Meals On Wheels,
