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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 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 the same security conference in Munich 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 (defence) spending,
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 Russia is really a petrostate,
A good outcome means the war stops, 80% of Ukraine is free, and there are security guarantees for Ukraine sufficient that Russia won't start the war again. That is a strategic victory for Ukraine,
It would have been much better to talk about possible NATO membership and territorial changes at the negotiating table,
Everybody knows ... and people in the administration know you don't say before your first meeting what you will agree to and what you won't agree to,
Wicker told Politico on Friday They're all over the map, they have trouble getting a disciplined line, but they haven't ruled anything out. They've covered the position in a cloud of ambiguity and uncertainty,
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 There was a lot of people at the table that really had no ability to execute some kind of peace process and failed miserably. We're not going to go down that path."
The problem is we don't know much still,
A sham peace—over the heads of Ukrainians and Europeans—would gain nothing,
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said in a statement on Friday We feel like Ukraine has to be at the table, and Europe does, too,
They can talk about it, but they cannot agree anything,
he told Newsweek, but caveated Peace and negotiations without European participation will be completely politically unacceptable,
Croatia's Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said while sat just meters from Kellogg A few days ago, President Trump told me about his conversation with Putin,
Zelensky said on stage in Munich on Saturday Let's be honest - now we can't rule out the possibility that America might say no to Europe on issues that threaten it,
