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Today we are facing two parallel, but, of course, to some extent, politically interconnected tracks: one is Ukrainian affairs, the other is bilateral,
A dialogue on strategic stability and arms control is possible when we see visible shifts for the better in American policy,
The question is about starting to move towards normalizing relations between our countries, finding ways to resolve the most acute and potentially very, very dangerous situations, of which there are many, Ukraine among them,
I'm not a fan of the idea that we can or should learn from history because it repeats itself,
historian Martina Winkler told DW Ukrainian politicians traveled to Brest-Litovsk and said 'nobody is going to talk about our territory, about us, if we aren't there to talk for ourselves,'
It's no coincidence that many have referred to the Munich Security Conference as 'Munich 2.0' or the 'new Yalta,'
Czechoslovakia wasn't just robbed of border territory. The country, one of the last democracies in Europe between the wars, was served up to war-mongering Hitler on a silver platter in hopes that it would prevent a war,
Now, however, allies from Eastern and Central Europe — which include the Baltics, Poland, the Czech Republic and Romania — are more needed than ever. That must be clearly signaled,
I'm not a big fan of sweeping historic analogies,
says Guido Hausmann, a professor of East and Southeast European history at the University of Regensburg, Germany But what I see now, ... East and Central European nations have often been the plunder of treaties drawn up by major powers… but the US, as far as I can see, is entirely oblivious to this fateful tradition."
as Hausmann, who is specialized on Russia, the Soviet Union and Ukraine, told DW It's difficult not to think of the 1938 Munich Agreement when observing the current situation."
Nevertheless, Winkler, a professor of East European history at Kiel University in Germany, said We didn't just listen, we really heard each other,
said Foreign Minister Lavrov afterwards Ukraine, Europe in a broad sense — and this includes the European Union, Turkey and the UK — should be involved in conversations and the development of the necessary security guarantees with America regarding the fate of our part of the world."
Speaking with reporters from the news agency Agence France Press (AFP) in Ankara, Turkey, Zelenskyy said Of course it's humiliating for Ukraine to be ignored, at least for the moment,
There isn't going to be a meeting until we know what the meeting is going to be about."
So I think when that meeting happens will largely depend on whether we can make any progress on ending the war in Ukraine, and if we can, and that meeting is what seals the deal, I think everybody should celebrate that President Trump is a peacemaker,
