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If the US is promising Russia that Ukraine can never join NATO, if the US won’t allow Ukraine to join NATO, Putin will have obtained one of his major objectives of this war,
said Kristine Berzina, managing director of the German Marshall Fund’s Geostrategy North
It’s quite clear that the United States is not going to war with Russia to defend Ukraine, and that has been true for 35 years or longer,
said Thomas Graham, a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.jpg)
President after president knew that transatlantic security benefited both the US and Europe,
former UK Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said in an interview
In any negotiation, Europe must have a central role,
the EU’s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, saidI’m just here to try and get peace,
he saidPresident Putin wants that peace now, and he didn’t want to have that peace with Biden.”
Trump claimed
To be clear, as part of any security guarantee, there will not be US troops deployed to Ukraine,
Hegseth saidI don’t care so much about anything other than I want to stop having millions of people killed,
Trump saidThe US is prioritising deterring war with China in the Pacific, recognising the reality of scarcity and making the resourcing tradeoffs to ensure deterrence does not fail,
he saidOn stepping up for Ukraine, we are and we will. On stepping up for European security, we are and we will,
he saidWe want, like you, a sovereign and prosperous Ukraine. But we must start by recognising that returning to Ukraine’s pre-2014 borders is an unrealistic objective,
he saidWe expect that he'll come here, and I'll go there -- and we're going to meet probably in Saudi Arabia the first time,
Trump told reporters in the Oval Office about his plans to meet Putin
For Putin that's a coup if Trump would accept
an invitation to visit Moscow ... Herbst said
It seems very standard for how Trump operates,
said Andrew Weiss, the vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International PeaceEveryone was expecting that if Trump were elected there would be negotiations over Ukraine,
said Michael David-Fox, an expert on Russia at Georgetown University.jpg)
Not that I'm aware of. That doesn't mean they don't exist,
Leavitt told reporters at a press briefingI think I could say with great confidence: he wants to see it [the war in Ukraine] end,
he noted
Millions of people have died in a War that would not have happened if I were President, but it did happen, so it must end
He wrote
We want to stop the millions of deaths taking place in the War with Russia/Ukraine
Announcing the negotiations, Trump wroteI want to thank President Putin for his time and effort with respect to this call, and for the release, yesterday, of Marc Fogel, a wonderful man that I personally greeted last night at the White House
In his Truth Social post, Trump said