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Putin understands that an election campaign during times of war will be destructive for our unity and for our stability. The danger is that [Putin’s] using someone in Trump’s entourage to promote this idea.”
He adds
We don’t seek that war. But my job as secretary of Defense is to make sure we’re ready. [So], we need the defense spending, the capabilities, the weapons and the posture in the Indo-Pacific, which is something we’re very much focused on.”
Hegseth shot back on Wednesday, sayingIt’s not something we are working on, but you won’t get me to stand here and say no to others’ ideas. Everything has to be on the table now.”
When asked whether Denmark would be open to hosting nuclear weapons on its soil, Danish Prime Minister METTE FREDERIKSEN told reporters todayWe let them know that this president is very serious about it and we’re going to end this war. And this is one way to make sure you understand we’re serious about it,
said KelloggWe will close off Iran’s access to the international financial system by targeting regional parties that facilitate the transfer of its revenues. Treasury is prepared to engage in frank discussions with those countries. We are going to shut down Iran’s oil sector and drone manufacturing capabilities,
Bessent saidYou literally can’t just take your satellites and go home, because that’s not the way that it works,
said DAVID GIOE, a visiting professor on intelligence and international security at King’s College LondonI came away with no confidence that [Marocco] intends to restore funding as directed by the court.”
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We didn’t yet get the details how it will be restricted,
Ukraine’s Defense Minister RUSTEM UMEROV said in Berlin, where he met his German counterpart, BORIS PISTORIUS
The question is not did you bring 200 people back, it’s how many people do you need to not cause mass death all around the world,
Schatz said[Trump] is being used by Putin to impose elections in Ukraine with only one purpose, to undermine us from within.”
OLEKSANDR MEREZHKO, chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Ukrainian parliament, tells our own Anne McElvoy
Where we are is a product of lack of oversight by Congress and just blatant abuse and taxpayer dollars for what everybody thought was an important and beneficial purpose,
Cornyn told Joe
Put Ukraine in a position of strength relative to Russia... enable Ukraine so much that they are able to change the dynamics on the battlefield so that Putin cannot achieve additional gains at acceptable cost."
David Petraeus
Pausing military aid and intelligence-sharing to Ukraine now will only enable and embolden Putin to continue his assaults with more lethality,
he addedI think the only thing that that deal is potentially going to give us is a discussion on another deal,
Klympush-Tsintsadze said, suggesting the economic agreement could serve as a framework,
Unfortunately, I do not see the readiness of the Russian Federation to really engage,
Klympush-Tsintsadze said, noting
I am certain that there is no risk of a large-scale war. … We do not intend to take any aggressive actions. We will not attack, raid or invade Ukraine,
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said about a month before Putin ordered the full-scale invasion, sparking the bloodiest conflict on European soil since World War IIWe are interested in peace, but we are definitely interested in something that would be guaranteed as a peace, and that would not be used by the Russian Federation as a pause to remobilize and to attack with a tsunami wave over Ukraine and also over European countries,
Klympush-Tsintsadze told CBS News in Kyiv on WednesdayOur intelligence is sovereign. We have intelligence that we allow Ukraine to benefit from."
France was quick to confirmWe are hoping that all the great... warm political will of the European nations will also, as urgently as possible, will translate in upscaling their defense engagement with Ukraine,
Klympush-Tsintsadze told CBS NewsIf you take away support like that, of course it's important, ... But that's why it was done."
said Kellogg, a retired Lieutenant General in the U.S. Army, adding