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This is a once-in-a-generation moment for our national security where we engage with the reality of the world today and the threat we face from Russia.”
I didn't let the ministers sign a relevant agreement because in my view it is not ready to protect us, our interest,
Mr Zelensky said yesterday If the US wants us to step up in defence, it should have a national component, a Nato component, but I also believe a European EU component, EU subsidies for the defence industry to build up our capacity to produce, but also an EU force worthy of its name,
President Trump has a method of operating, which the Russians call reconnaissance through battle. You push and you see what happens, and then you change your position, legitimate tactics. And we need to respond,
Don’t think that not meeting the challenge now somehow saves us money down the line,
Mr Lammy said on Saturday If you understand by it the unification of national armies, it will not happen,
We can’t rule out the possibility that America might say no to Europe on issues that threaten it,
We do not pose a threat to anyone, we are not increasing the number of troops or weapons systems – unlike our neighbours, the Poles and the Baltics, who are focusing on militarisation,
Secretary of the National Security Council in Belarus Alexander Wolfovich said I don’t know who wrote the speech — it is the kind of thing Tucker Carlson could have written, and Carlson is a fool,
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 Secretary Hegseth’s recent diplomatic blunders make President Trump look weak, and undermine future negotiations for peace in Ukraine,
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,
And to my European friends, I would say, get into the debate, not by complaining that you might, yes or no, be at the table, but by coming up with concrete proposals, ideas, ramp up (defense) spending,
The Americans are approaching European capitals and asking how many soldiers they are ready to deploy,
There's no way in which we can have discussions or negotiations about Ukraine, Ukraine's future or European security structure, without Europeans,
Finland's President Alexander Stubb told reporters in Munich Russia is really a petrostate,
The answer to that last question (regarding Europeans), just as you framed it, the answer is no."
Asked if he could assure the audience that Ukrainians There is a European military force called NATO."
A senior official from an eastern member state of the European Union responded skeptically to Zelenskyy's proposal for a European army, saying We are all very carefully following the signals of President Trump and his closest aides on Ukraine, and the analysis that we are having is that we would like to understand it a little bit more,
If Trump is negotiating with [Russian President Vladimir] Putin about Europe, then it is impossible to talk about Europe without us,
Estonian foreign minister Margus Tsahkna said
