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Putin has made a lot of mistakes in starting the war and conducting the war and everything else,
Senate Foreign Relations Chair Jim Risch (R-Idaho) told Fox News 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,
Senate Armed Services Chair Roger Wicker said in an interview with POLITICO at the Munich Security Conference Trump is stronger than Putin,
he said Friday at the Munich conference They express concern about the mixed messages coming out of this administration,
It doesn’t matter to me who Trump calls, or when he calls,
The good news is everybody’s talking about getting together to talk,
Make no mistake, President Trump will not allow anyone to turn Uncle Sam into Uncle Sucker.”
For now, the world had to settle for Hegseth popping into a Nato defence ministers meeting in Brussels to announce Make no mistake, Trump's and the Kremlin's messaging about the talks and the potential peace deal looks like a huge relief and discursive victory for Russia...from the Russian point of view, this is already a great PR victory."
Kirill Shamiev, policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, told Newsweek By excluding the prospect of NATO membership for Ukraine and by shifting the burden of future European security on Europeans, U.S. officials already have deprived themselves of important levers they could have used in a future negotiation, to push Russia into concessions,
Putin will have won this war from this point of view,
As NATO expands to the east, with every passing year, the situation for our country is getting worse and more dangerous,
he said in a televised address, immediately before his forces launched their assault The parallels with 1938 could only be clearer if Trump had held up a note and said Mr Putin had assured him he had no further territorial ambitions in Europe,
Giles told Newsweek, referring to British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's appeasement of Hitler before World War Two I don't pay attention to Russian propaganda."
Gabbard has rejected claims that she had The anti-Russia project has been rejected by millions of Ukrainians. The people of Crimea and residents of Sevastopol made their historic choice,
This war and suffering could have easily been avoided if Biden Admin/Nato had simply acknowledged Russia's legitimate security concerns,
A sham peace - over the heads of Ukrainians and Europeans - would gain nothing,
Baerbock said in a statement Peace will only come through strength. This requires tough and long-term security guarantees for Ukraine, a strong NATO and progress in Ukraine's accession negotiations with the European Union,
The position of Brussels — to support killing as long as it takes — is morally and politically unacceptable,
It is clear that any deal behind our backs will not work. You need the Europeans, you need the Ukrainians,
the EU’s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, told journalists on the sidelines of a meeting of NATO ministers There is a big worry that Trump is a clumsy negotiator, he will cede crazy things to Russia,
the diplomat said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters
