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A sham peace — over the heads of Ukrainians and Europeans — would gain nothing,
Baerbock said in a statement as the security conference got underway A sham peace would not bring lasting security, neither for the people in Ukraine nor for us in Europe or the United States,
she said, according to Reuters I think there is a deal that is going to come out of this that’s going to shock a lot of people."
If you look at President Trump's approach to this, the range of options is extremely broad, and there are economic tools of leverage,
I don't see any way that a country in Russia's position could allow ... them to join NATO,
The Ukraine war has to end,
Trump told reporters Thursday President Trump could say, look, we don't want this thing, we might not like this thing, but we're willing to put it back on the table if the Russians aren't being good negotiating partners, or there are things that are very important to Ukrainians that we might want to take off the table."
We are not sending U.S. troops into Ukraine."
By contrast, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Tuesday [There ... There] should not be a brief truce, not some kind of respite for the regrouping of forces and rearmament with a view to a subsequent continuation of the conflict."
Putin told officials on January 21 We can talk all we want about values. Values are important. But you can’t shoot values. You can’t shoot flags and you can’t shoot strong speeches. There is no replacement for hard power.”
Hegseth also downplayed the relevance of European values to security policy There are any number of formulations, of configurations, but we do care about Ukraine having sovereign independence,
A peace that is a capitulation is bad news for everyone,
If there is agreement made behind our backs, it simply will not work,
I think that’s how it will have to be,
The only question at this point is whether President Putin is sincerely, sustainably … prepared for a ceasefire on that basis,
He's going to say, 'Everything is on the table, let's make a deal',
We shouldn't take anything off the table before the negotiations have even started because it plays to Russia's court and it is what they want,
I thought his comments were good yesterday and probably good today,
Trump said about his defense chief I believe President Putin when I spoke to him yesterday
There are economic tools of leverage, there are of course military tools of leverage
