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It is simply wrong and dangerous to question President Zelenskyy's democratic legitimacy,
Chancellor Olaf Scholz told the media outlet Der Spiegel on Wednesday ... he said
The fact that treaties suddenly no longer apply for a US president and that he practically takes the opposite side in the case of Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine is of course shocking,
Hoff told DWIt is now important that the Europeans agree on a common strategy very, very quickly,
Merz told public broadcaster RBB,We have to ensure our own security,
he told public broadcaster ZDF, stressingBerlin politicians are shocked and paralyzed,
said political scientist Henning Hoff of the German Council on Foreign Relations.jpg)
This is basically a classic perpetrator-victim reversal, this is the Russian narrative,
said Friedrich Merz, leader of the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), who, going by opinion polls, is currently most likely to be the next German chancellorAnd to be honest, I am somewhat shocked that Donald Trump has now obviously adopted this narrative,
Merz continued
That he is suddenly saying that Ukraine attacked Russia is almost unacceptable,
Germany's Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck accused Trump of distorting the facts ... Habeck told public broadcaster ARDThe next German government should work closely with its European allies to improve its ability to act as quickly as possible and try to close the capability gaps that a US withdrawal from Europe will leave behind,
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There must be a U.S. backstop because a U.S. security guarantee is the only way to effectively deter Russia from attacking Ukraine again,
Starmer said on Monday
Russia is preparing for a long war,
she told The Associated PressIf it is successful, it will last 20 or 30 years,
he said
If we don't, the United States will withdraw from Europe,
Aaltola added
Recent developments and this different view of things from the United States now oblige us not only to face the truth, but to move at a very high speed and implement decisions that we have been discussing for long,
he said
Europe can no longer fully rely on the United States to defend our shared values and interests.”
The leaders of the center-right European People’s Party, the Socialists and Democrats, the liberal Renew Europe and the Greens declared
We now have an alliance between a Russian president who wants to destroy Europe and an American president who also wants to destroy Europe,
another European diplomat observed in recent days, declining to be identified discussing sensitive mattersWe were not fully satisfied with the wording of the assessment of the United States in the text … Now is the time for calm, measured dialogue and a focus on pragmatic solutions.”
A spokesperson for the European Conservatives and Reformists group, which includes Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party, explained why it didn’t sign the joint statementUkraine’s security is Europe’s security,
the parties saidHe wants Europe to take more responsibility for its security to strengthen NATO,
the official saidThis War is far more important to Europe than it is to us,
Trump wrote on social media