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We are strong enough to react to everything that is harming the European economy,
German Chancellor Scholz told Bloomberg Saturday I think the Democrats’ brand is really bad, and I think this was an election based on culture.” ... Democrat
Democratic Senator Mark Warner on his own party ... He told our own Dasha Burns We will have even more problems in the next year or two if we don’t ramp up our defense industry production levels,
Lithuanian Defense Minister Dovilė Šakalienė on the need to ramp up defense capabilities ... she told Paul McLeary It’s like an accomplice to the crime being the judge of the case. I mean, absolutely insane,
he said in an interview with our own Robbie Gramer at the POLITICO Pub 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,
Graham said in conversation with Jonathan Martin The response and demand has been overwhelming.”
We respect the presidential elections and the congressional elections in the U.S. And we expect the U.S. to do the same here,
We do not pose a threat to anyone, we are not increasing the number of troops or weapons systems – unlike our neighbours, the Poles and the Baltics, who are focusing on militarisation,
Secretary of the National Security Council in Belarus Alexander Wolfovich said We can’t rule out the possibility that America might say no to Europe on issues that threaten it,
It is very important for me that he sees this,
Zelenskyy said at the Munich Security Conference The Americans are approaching European capitals and asking how many soldiers they are ready to deploy,
There’s no way in which we can have discussions or negotiations about Ukraine, Ukraine’s future or European security structure, without Europeans,
Finland’s President Alexander Stubb told the same security conference in Munich To my European friends, I would say, get into the debate, not by complaining that you might, yes or no, be at the table, but by coming up with concrete proposals, ideas, ramp up [defence] spending,
Russia is really a petrostate,
If Putin succeeds in conquering Ukraine, it will be a signal to China... It will directly impact the US strategy and alliance system and possibly the future of Taiwan,
There is a very serious intention and determination to end the war in a just way, and that it should be ended in a manner that it does not happen again. We are not only talking about ending the war, but also preventing it happening again.”
Olha Stefanishyna, Ukraine’s deputy prime minister for Europe, took a more optimistic view of US intentions, saying It may be like chalk on the blackboard, it may grate a little bit, but I am telling you something that is really quite honest,
Europe urgently needs its own plan of action concerning Ukraine and our security, or else other global players will decide about our future. Not necessarily in line with our own interest … This plan must be prepared now. There’s no time to lose.”
The Polish prime minister, Donald Tusk, said on social media We are not going to get down that path,
he said on the margins of the Munich Security Conference We are still talking. I have had different dialogues.”
Asked about the deal in Munich, Zelenskyy said
