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Look, here's the bottom line, President Zelenskyy is going to sign that deal, and you will see that in the very short term, and that is good for Ukraine,
I think that President Putin and President Zelenskyy are going to have to get together. Because you know what? We want to stop killing millions of people,
Trump told reporters at the White House Ukraine must be at the table in future negotiations on peace in Ukraine and that questions about European security must be discussed together with the Europeans,
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 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,
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,'
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,
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 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 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 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 We didn't just listen, we really heard each other,
said Foreign Minister Lavrov afterwards Of course it's humiliating for Ukraine to be ignored, at least for the moment,
The president’s surrender is pathetic and weak.”
The Democratic senator Richard Blumenthal made a good start this week, when he said You should have never started it.”
To cap it all, he endorsed the Orwellian, black-is-white inversion of truth advanced by the Kremlin when he said There is a desire of the two presidents, which they expressed, and there is also an instruction to prepare this meeting well so that it will be as productive as possible. It is during the preparation that all the nuances will be discussed,
The special military operation continues. All the goals set by the head of state and the supreme commander-in-chief must be achieved,
We have our goals, connected with our national security, with our national interests, and we are ready to achieve this goals by means of peace talks,
I will tell him: deep down you cannot be weak in the face of President Putin. It's not you, it's not what you're made of, and it's not in your interests,
the French president said