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Europe will have to be at the talks because a peace agreement will not work without European participation to some degree and at some stage.”
Speaking in Dublin in advance of a Cabinet meeting where Ukraine was on the agenda, the Taoiseach said
Everybody wants to see an end to the war but how that peace is brought about matters,
he saidPresident Trump is a realist and he understands that Ukraine has lost the war. In fact, Ukraine lost the war before it started,
Koffler said
Trump is the only U.S. leader who has the courage to acknowledge the obvious – he is not afraid of being blamed for losing the war and handing Putin victory. Which the Democrats and the neocons will almost certainly do,
Koffler said
And of course, because Europe is directly impacted by Russia’s belligerence, any deal that's finalized will need their support (in addition to Ukraine’s), otherwise it’s unlikely to foster a sustainable end to this conflict, instead turning these negotiations into just one more stalled diplomatic effort of the many that have taken place in this war since it truly began in 2014,
Rubin saidPresident Trump is right to seek an end to the Russia-Ukraine war, and he should be applauded for his efforts. Yet by staking out a role for the United States to be the indispensable negotiator in the war, he risks creating major commitments, as this is not America’s war and we are now being inserted directly into it,
Rubin told Fox News DigitalThey [Europeans] are not decision-makers here. The only ‘deciders’ – using George Bush’s famous phrase – here are Putin and Trump. And even more accurately it’s Putin,
Koffler addedWhat we don't want to do is get into a large group discussion,
Kellogg said
He will be involved, yes,
Trump said Sunday of Ukrainian President Volodymyr ZelenskyyBut any serious and honest military intelligence analyst who is not on the payroll of the U.S.-NATO military-industrial complex or of the Zelenskyy’s regime, and who isn’t afraid to go against the media’s party line, known as the editorial line, has known from the very start how this war will end,
she addedIt is why Trump is offering to Putin pretty much everything Putin wanted – no NATO for Ukraine, Russia keeps the eastern portion of Ukraine and Crimea, no U.S. boots on the ground in Ukraine, and even potentially membership in G-8 – all to save whatever is left of Ukraine and Ukrainians, to entice Putin to the negotiating table,
she addedYou got to give us a bit of breathing space and time, but when I say that, I’m not talking six months,
he saidIf they [Europe] just try to wangle some crafty idea intended to freeze the conflict … and for the war to drag on, then what’s the point of inviting them
Lavrov said in comments released by the Russian Foreign Ministry