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A failed Ukraine would weaken Europe, but it would also weaken the United States,
The threat that I worry most about, vis-a-vis Europe, is not Russia, it's not China, it's not any other external actor,
Major countries must take the lead in honoring their words and upholding the rule of law,
Wang said, in what was seen as an indirect reference to the US and Europe This will allow member states to substantially increase their defense expenditure,
Across Europe, free speech, I fear, is in retreat,
The regrettable thing … is that the Trump administration has, in my opinion, unnecessarily taken two important negotiating items off the table,
Without Europe’s participation in the negotiations … it is difficult to imagine that Europeans should then secure this peace afterwards without having been involved in the negotiations to bring about peace together,
I hope to keep united with our American allies, because it's Iran, Russia, also North Korea, but more covertly China teaming up against us, so we need to stick to our ground,
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,
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 This war and suffering could have easily been avoided if Biden Admin/Nato had simply acknowledged Russia's legitimate security concerns,
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 Putin will have won this war from this point of view,
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,
But in these 24 hours, what I have seen, was a tremendous sense of unity and of conversions of use, and maybe not on everything and every detail, but still in Alliance, moving united forward,
What a shame that this year's gathering in Munich seems set to mirror the disastrous conference of 1938, where the continent stood blind to the face of Hitler's duplicity
There's been a lot of talk about the trip Steve Witkoff took to Moscow and how he met with Putin,
Where do the Ukrainians and Europeans fit into all of this? At this point we don't know,
