Quotes
If Ukraine is left in the lurch now, we will soon be next,
Roderich Kiesewetter, a senior lawmaker with the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), told POLITICO What is objectionable is that Ukraine has not been informed about this and neither has Europe,
German liberal MEP Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann told POLITICO Today, we must face the reality of what the U.S. government’s actions and announcements mean for Ukraine, for Europe and for the world,
No, of course not, because a large proportion of the weapons systems — including those we have supplied — are weapons systems that have been developed jointly with the U.S.”
Asked whether Europe would be able to replace U.S. military aid to Ukraine, Drossmann said To be clear, peace must last over the long term. It must secure Ukraine’s sovereignty,
said German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Thursday We now have to wait and see what happens at the Munich Security Conference,
said Falko Drossmann, a lawmaker for Scholz’s center-left SPD and a former air force officer We are, of course, pleased that peace negotiations are happening,
said Gerold Otten, an AfD defense lawmaker and former colonel Europe believes all of a sudden that working on defence is a good thing… Between that realisation and the reality of building a European defense industry it’s going to take many years and even many decades,
he told the Financial Times To many Americans it has seemed that a prosperous Western Europe was not making a reasonably proportionate contribution to the common defense effort,
One for all, all for one”
Her Estonian counterpart, Hanno Pevkur, cited the poet Alexandre Dumas I don’t think any UN troops or anything like that have ever really helped anyone,
he told the Guardian this week Whether we decide to fall under the illusion that Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin are going to find a solution for all of us, and that would be a deadly trap, or we will, as Europe, embrace our own economic, financial and military capacity.”
Will the Government impress on President Trump at every possible opportunity that the reason why appeasement led to World War Two was that it left a vacuum in Europe?
Any peace agreement requires the full involvement of both the Europeans and the Ukrainians to succeed,
It just so happened at some point that the U.S. appointed itself the country-in-chief on our planet with the exclusive right to wage a hybrid war against our people, to mete out justice and grant pardons. It was a grave mistake, which nearly wiped humanity off the face of the earth,
he said, without mentioning This is a lesson that must be learned by the arrogant American elites and the so-called deep state,
If they don’t… the Doomsday Clock will keep on ticking towards midnight,
he added, threatening nuclear escalation It's not wise to surrender Russia’s key demands before the negotiations even start."
European leaders were quick to react with concern to comments from both Washington and Moscow, including EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, who told Fox News Digital The West wants peace. Ukraine wants peace. Putin wants peace. The Russian people want peace. But their ideas of what a peace looks like are very, very, very different,
Great talks with Russia and Ukraine. Good possibility of ending that horrible, very bloody war,
US President Donald Trump announced, commenting on Wednesday's phone calls with Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy