Quotes
When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long coming, then men’s weapons will grow dull and their ardor will be damped. If you lay siege to a town, you will exhaust your strength."
As Sun Tzu warned
Recent developments and this different view of things from the United States now oblige us not only to face the truth, but to move at a very high speed and implement decisions that we have been discussing for long,
he said
Why should dominance be handed over to a country that is an aggressor, a violator of international law, and the author of aggression against Ukraine,
Podolyak said
Today I heard, 'Oh, well, we weren't invited.' Well, you've been there for three years. You should have never started it. You could have made a deal."
Trump rebuked Kyiv's complaints, stating
When the US mentions future European participation, it doesn't imply genuine involvement. Once the US and Russia reach a consensus, they can persuade Europe and Ukraine to accept the outcome, addressing some of their security concerns,
Zhang saidFor Europe, the conflict is an existential matter, while for Trump, it's a matter of cost-benefit,
he saidPutin fiercely hates Mr. Zelenskyy. He understands that he cannot break him. He has been unable to do so for three years,
Podolyak saidThese US-Europe differences may reduce the conflict's intensity, but future disagreements still require consultation to resolve."
Zhao saidTo me, the concept of 'peace through strength,' which the American administration promotes, sounds strange,
he said,It is difficult to put into words what an about-face this is for US support for Ukraine, which for years was built on helping the country defend itself, though not win the war,
The Guardian's Andrew Roth wrote
Mr. Trump is in the middle of executing one of the most jaw-dropping pivots in American foreign policy in generations, a 180-degree turn that will force friends and foes to recalibrate in fundamental ways."
The consensus opinion is best summed up by Peter Baker of The New York Times
We can do it the easy way, or the hard way — and the easy way is always better,
Trump warned in a message addressed directly to Putin on his social media site Truth Social
We have a situation where we haven’t had elections in Ukraine, where we have martial law, essentially martial law in Ukraine, where the leader in Ukraine, I mean, I hate to say it, but he’s down to 4 percent approval rating.”
Their quandary has only been worsened by Trump’s remarks on Tuesday, when he saidFor the Ukrainians, there’s too much uncertainty now,
an American adviser to Kyiv told POLITICO on condition of anonymityTrump and Putin want Zelenskyy out — their alignment is worrisome,
a former Ukrainian minister told POLITICO, who asked to remain anonymous in order to speak freelyEurope is left without a choice. Abandoning support for Ukraine would mean surrendering on all fronts, and there is no need to talk about strategic independence, so Europe sees the outcome of the Ukraine crisis from a strategic and life-and-death perspective,
Jiang said
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In order to carry out, figuratively speaking, resuscitation measures, diplomats will now begin to work in light of the agreement Lavrov reached yesterday with Rubio,
Peskov was quoted by state media as sayingWe are not imposing anything on anyone. We are ready, I have already said this a hundred times – if they want, please, let these negotiations take place. And we will be ready to return to the table for negotiations,
he said
No one is excluding Ukraine,
Putin said in a televised meeting with journalists in Saint Petersburg,Yes, I have been informed. I rate them highly, there are results,
he was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency on Wednesday