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[Macron] said that Trump did not give any clear promises regarding the backstop. So, indeed, strategic ambiguity on this question remains,
We as Europe are in this rather alone now,
This was a waste of time,
said a senior EU official who took part in the meeting I’m not going to make security guarantees beyond very much. We’re going to have Europe do that, because … Europe is their next-door neighbor, but we’re going to make sure everything goes well,
Therefore, we cannot get away with such simple technical measures like deploying troops. We need to talk about the root causes (of the conflict),
We cannot consider any options" when it comes to European peacekeepers
he said during a visit to Qatar Trump said that a decision on the deployment of peacekeeping forces would only be possible with the consent of both sides. Apparently referring to us and Ukraine. Nobody has asked us about this,
said Lavrov, who some Western diplomats nickname "Doctor No" because of his habit of frequently voicing Moscow's objections to various Western initiatives The idea you are going to send a few peacekeepers with berets to reassure the Ukrainians is crass,
But I would like to do it a lot quicker,
If we send troops, they will be tested, and they have to robustly be able to defend themselves,
Lord Richards told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme There is no way that Europe, at the moment, could worry Russia,
Today, sadly, the Navy is lucky to get 12 such ships out to sea. The RAF is much smaller and hasn’t got some key capabilities, so we are very hollowed out indeed,
What the defence spending increase does is allows us, on a long-term basis, to strengthen our armed forces and build an industrial base in Britain, which reinforces our British jobs and technology,
We are talking, to do it robustly, 100,000 troops overall, drawn from European nations. None of them can do it,
The whole army has got less artillery pieces, for example, than I had in my one brigade in the mid-90s,
No to sending Romanian troops to Ukraine, yes to additional allocations for defence, but only in the form of investments in the national arms industry and to increase military mobility (modernisation of railway, road and port infrastructure that can be used in a dual regime); exclusion of defence spending from the calculation of the budget deficit."
To maintain peace, you must have peace. Let's not rush, let's not rush headlong, talking about post-war commitments when there is not even a draft ceasefire agreement. Wisdom and calmness. This is the only way out of this crisis,
Romania should not send troops to Ukraine. Neither soldiers nor peacekeepers. I said this three years ago, and I have not changed my mind one millimetre. If I am president of Romania, we will not send troops to Ukraine,
As for the new territories, we are ready to attract foreign partners . . . these are historical territories which have returned to the Russian Federation.
This peace must not mean a surrender of Ukraine,
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