Quotes
They will sign the minerals deal but I want them to want peace... They haven't shown it to extent they should,
We're going to make a lot of progress, I believe, this week,
It looks like the deportation of children, rape of women and the massacre of civilians, that's what happens when Russia attacks. First will be the missiles, then the works."
He's never going to give up on his aim of taking over the whole of Ukraine either
If Europe is fractured, and if Europe doesn't step up to the mark, then I really fear for our future."
What I am sickened by is years of slaughter in a stalemate that Ukraine will inevitably lose,
It’s a betrayal. This whole war has been a betrayal,
said one supporter who would only give her first name, Victoria Doesn’t make sense for America to pay for the defence of Europe,
Not really. I think Trump is leaning towards Moscow, towards Russia.”
When asked if she thinks Mr Trump could help, she replied The lid of the smoking cauldron is almost closed. The offensive continues.”
Maybe in 3, 5, 7 or 10 years Europe could compensate for that but will need to spend a lot of money and a lot of time and political will in order to make it work. At this moment of time, we have to do whatever is needed to salvage the US relationship,
The Baltics are on a ship in the middle of the ocean and the ship is led by the US, we can jump off the ship, but there is no other ship in sight. It's not like we can find a direct alternative at this moment of time,
I think all the signals that we are picking up from Washington, also in public domain, show that it's part of negotiating tactics with Ukrainians. That gives me hope that this is not something that is definite and unchangeable,
Some of the statements are very hard to stand, and they go against the direct interest of Ukraine,
One line says that the US still remains committed and is a pivotal ally of Europe and the Baltics. The second one says we must increase our assistance to Ukraine for them to prevail and succeed, increase the pressure on Russia and obviously also increase in the investments into European defense,
The Baltics…they got a lot of… it's a tough neighborhood too, but we're committed."
When asked if these troops would remain on NATO's eastern flank in the future, Trump said I remember half a year ago when I came to this position, I asked Ursula von der Leyen in a friendly way that we would like to do some things faster in defense, get some kind of change in the budgetary rules. Back then she said today there is not such an opportunity. I told her about it yesterday: now we finally got there,
If you know that you are wealthy and in your region have the threat of Russia, you have to contribute to it [defense]. In this sense, the alarm bell should have rung a long time ago even without Trump, but now Trump may be helping to sound the alarm bell. Maybe even a bad message has its own point,
Fortunately, no NATO country has to choose between NATO options and other options, because in my opinion NATO is working,
I want to see them equalize, because they are in for far less than we're in,
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