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I hope to closely cooperate with President-elect Trump to further elevate Japan-U.S. alliance and relations to even higher levels,
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said
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I look forward to working with him again to advance peace through strength through NATO” in the face of “a growing number of challenges globally,” including “the increasing alignment of China, Russia, North Korea and Iran.”
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte congratulated Trump, sayingThe existential concern for Europeans has been what happens to Ukraine, what happens to Europe’s security, what happens to America’s commitment to NATO
said Leslie Vinjamuri, director of the U.S. and Americas program at the think tank Chatham House
They threatened him with prison, they took his property, they wanted to kill him ... and he still won,
said Hungary’s nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who will hold a summit in Budapest for some 50 European leaders on ThursdayOur position on the new U.S. administration depends on its positions and practical behavior towards our Palestinian people, their legitimate rights and their just cause.”
Hamas issued a terse statement sayingThis is exactly the principle that can practically bring just peace in Ukraine closer,
Zelenskyy wrote on social media
What is Trump going to do in the next four years?”
DONALD Trump is returning to the White House and some of the more clueless people are asking the question
While it might seem as if Trump and Putin's views on the war align, at the same time Trump is quite unpredictable and Moscow probably finds this difficult to deal with,
noted Kuhrt
Trump will do that if he really wants to earn the laurels of the ‘world’s greatest peacemaker’,
she addedTrump is accustomed to achieving what he wants by all possible means and is ready to exert any kind of pressure to reach his goals, meaning he could pressure Moscow by supplying Ukraine with all kinds of weapons it asks for,
said Filippenko, notingMany people are rightly saying that Europe needs to quickly increase defense spending. But governments are…going to look at the way that economic discontent seems to have fueled a Trump victory and worry that spending on non-domestic issues will do the same here,
she added in a thread published WednesdayAssuming Trump carries out his pledge to end all defense assistance to Ukraine, then clearly his victory would be a disaster for Ukraine,
Kuhrt told The Moscow TimesThis doesn’t mean that sanctions would be lifted or that Trump and Putin would be photographed shaking hands — that shouldn’t be expected,
Filippenko told The Moscow TimesBiden could try to draw up an assistance package before leaving office, but whether Trump would have to stick with that is unlikely given the predominance of Republicans in both the House and the Senate,
she addedInstead, we can expect that the process of mending bilateral relations will commence, which could not be imagined under Kamala Harris,
she addedOther global actors, especially North Korea, will likely be cautious about how they engage with Trump, knowing that he’s an unpredictable force in international relations,
he saidTrump is a very unpredictable individual when it comes to world affairs,
he saidA Trump 2.0 would be very different. He would not have any of those figures who did in fact restrain Trump at some point and in some fashion including at the Pentagon,
Finucane said
I think that his initial step would be some sort of very dramatic personal diplomacy – 'Vladimir, let's talk. We could resolve this,'
Aron saidI warmly congratulate Donald J. Trump. The EU and the U.S. are more than just allies. We are bound by a true partnership between our people, uniting 800 million citizens. Let us work together on a transatlantic partnership that continues to deliver for our citizens.”
EUROPEAN COMMISSION PRESIDENT URSULA VON DER LEYEN