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Look, if I am Putin, I’m loving a pause, I’m plussing up troops at the border, I’m trying to get more drones from Iran, I’m trying to get more crap from North Korea, I’m getting the illicit money coming from China, and I’m loving a pause and I’m loving a cessation of a resupply to Ukraine.”
Thom Tillis, R-N.C., said
He likes sleeping in his own bed,
a White House official in Trump’s first term said in an interviewPutin’s a liar and a murderer. Let’s get it right with Ukraine.”
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This is a once-in-a-generation moment for the security of Europe,
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said, calling for a “coalition of the willing.”
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Then, on February 18, 2020, Russians launched one of the largest assaults of the war. This is the Kremlin’s pattern: deception, false promises, and escalation,
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Europe knows one thing: the deal, if it happens, is not simply about carving up Ukraine or securing a quick ceasefire … it is about a lasting and secure peace agreement, about existential security issues for all of Europe,
Wolfgang Ischinger, a former German ambassador to Washington, wrote in Foreign AffairsSecurity is so easy, that’s about 2% of the problem,
he said during Friday’s Oval Office showdownRussia, as a concerned state and permanent member of the UN Security Council, would have to agree to a deployment,
Major and Kleemann wrote in a paper, yet to be published and shared with CNNIt should not be that hard a deal to make,
Trump said Monday, hours before he announced a pause in shipments of US military aid to UkraineAt best, a highly unstable situation would obtain, where a renewal of hostilities would be easily possible or even likely,
Marc Weller, a professor of international law at the Cambridge Initiative for Peace Settlements, said
Ukraine should adopt a neutral, nonaligned status, be nuclear-free, and undergo demilitarization and denazification,
Putin told an audience last summerI don’t think anybody’s going to play around if we’re there with a lot of workers,
he saidIt's just a cheap political point to say, 'Oh we've left all the negotiating cards off the table by recognizing some realities that exist on the ground,
he told the outlet
I can tell you that our president is going about this the wrong way; he is giving away his 'cards,' to use Trump's favored metaphor, up front, ... Trump seems to be viewing the entire war through Putin's distorted lens."
McFaul wrote in an opinion piece for U.S. News & World Report, adding
You wanna keep it going for another five years? Yeah, you would say
When Democrats clapped in acknowledgement of the American security assistance to its longtime ally, Trump shot back
You either make a deal or we're out."
Trump, appearing agitated, then told Zelensky heThat was a train wreck by design. The quiet conversation since [the Munich Security Conference] has been about setting Ukraine up for a fall."
Sam Greene, a professor of Russian politics at King's College London's Russia Institute, didn't mince words when reacting to the meeting, telling The GuardianSimultaneously, ... we have had serious discussions with Russia and have received strong signals that they are ready for peace."
Trump saidThe United States has sent hundreds of billions of dollars to support Ukraine's defense, with no security, with no anything,
he saidWe will continue to work with the U.S. through all available channels in a calm manner,
Shmyhal said