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Some people talked out of turn, but I don't think we're conceding anything".
When asked whether the US is conceding too much to Putin even before talks start, Coale replied I’m not the one that declares a red line or not. I work with the president, as we work through these issues, but we believed that it was useful just to speak some reality into the conversation. Ultimately, President Trump is the only one who’s gonna determine if there’s wiggle room or movement on any particular position."
That’s not a definitive value statement,
I think what I articulated yesterday, in consultation with senior leadership in the White House and the Oval Office of the president, was the reality of the moment — that NATO membership was unlikely considering the realities of where we are. No one’s throwing a stake in the ground for 25 years from now or any defined period of time,
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 Putin will have won this war from this point of view,
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 The anti-Russia project has been rejected by millions of Ukrainians. The people of Crimea and residents of Sevastopol made their historic choice,
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 This war and suffering could have easily been avoided if Biden Admin/Nato had simply acknowledged Russia's legitimate security concerns,
I don't pay attention to Russian propaganda."
Gabbard has rejected claims that she had There's been a lot of talk about the trip Steve Witkoff took to Moscow and how he met with Putin,
You don't know with Putin and the Russians,
Where do the Ukrainians and Europeans fit into all of this? At this point we don't know,
I believe that is the reason the war started,
Right now, that is still on the table,
said John Coale, President Donald Trump's deputy Ukraine envoy, when asked whether the U.S. had ruled out possible NATO membership for Ukraine The Europeans want this war stopped,
Our partners must do far more for Europe's defence. We must make NATO great again, ... President Trump
Hegseth told reporters after the talks in Brussels, warning There will be a bilateral Russian-American track of this dialogue, and a track that will be related to Ukraine’s involvement,
said Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesperson
