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It is absolutely clear, if we stick with the current numbers, we will not get there. We will not be safe (for) four or five years,
We hope that it will be clear what happened,
he said, offering his sympathies to the victims and wishing them a speedy recovery It has never been said before, and not even in that Washington summit statement, that when a peace deal would be done on Ukraine, that in that peace deal, it should be NATO, full stop. That is not the case,
Rutte told reporters at the Munich Security Conference on Friday We need to create effects on the ground, create effects in terms of the plans, so that we get a seat at the table,
If I were nominating somebody to be the NATO Man of the Year, it'd be Putin,
Graham said as he participated in a MSC panel I do believe that if he understood 'you do this again, your worst nightmare of Ukraine being in NATO is a certainty' [then that] would be a deterrent,
Graham, chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget, said He's done more to help NATO than we have. We have two new members [Sweden and Finland]. We're talking about spending more, not less. So he's made a serious miscalculation,
So you better be pulling for this minerals agreement."
Graham urged European allies to support such a deal, saying I told President Trump, it may be the old Soviet Union, it may be the Russian Empire, but I do know he's going after the money. Don't let him steal what Ukraine has to enrich himself, because that's like defunding the police. So if this minerals agreement happens it's a nightmare for Putin, because we have something to defend that we didn't have before,
This minerals agreement between the United States and Ukraine is a game changer, because President Trump can go to the American people [and] say 'Ukraine is not a burden, it's a benefit.' They're sitting on top of trillion dollars worth of minerals that all of us can benefit from by lining with the West,
Get into the debate, not by complaining …. but by coming up with concrete ideas,
he told the Munich Security Conference They can all afford it, but they should be at 5%, not 2%
he said at a press conference in which he also refused to rule out using military force to seize the Panama Canal or Greenland — a territory that belongs to NATO member Denmark I think NATO should have 5% [of their GDP as a NATO contribution target],
Putin has done more to help NATO than we have,
If you can’t get them into NATO right now, my idea with [former U.K. Prime Minister] Boris Johnson is to be really clear: Tell Putin if you ever do this again, if there’s another incursion by Russia into Ukraine, that leads to automatic admission into NATO by Ukraine as a tripwire,
It doesn’t matter what Pete says, it doesn’t matter how many phone calls are made,
On the contrary, we will have to do even more there,
the defence minister said Russia can then move troops, which means the threat is growing,
I won’t get into the particular capabilities, but I do accept that if there is peace then there needs to be some sort of security guarantee for Ukraine and the U.K. will play its part in that,
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said in cautious remarks on Thursday It has to be a real force (so) that the Russians know that if they ever tested it that they would get crushed. And you can be sure that Russia will test it,
Ben Hodges, the former Commanding General of U.S. Army Europe, said last month at a European Policy Centre think tank event
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