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If we got a bad deal, it would only mean that we will see the president of Russia high-fiving with the leaders from North Korea, Iran and China and we cannot accept that,
the former Dutch prime minister said If Ukraine loses then to restore the deterrence of the rest of NATO again, it will be a much, much higher price than what we are contemplating at this moment in terms of ramping up our spending and ramping up our industrial production."
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said When we have leaders who are going to talk about more war, we need to make sure that those leaders are spending the right amount of money." ... We need to be able to avoid war, and that means a credible threat from NATO."
Trump's envoy for special missions, Richard Grenell said ... He added It will not be billions extra; it will be trillions extra,
Rutte said, on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland This is not a conflict between Russia and Ukraine or Russia and Europe. It’s a geopolitical issue because of North Korea, China, Iran, and that is why we need to get a good deal,
You cannot ask the American people to expand the umbrella of Nato when the current members aren’t paying their fair share, and that includes the Dutch, who need to step up,
That is the only way in which Putin has lost this war, and lost this war big time,
We should launch such a strong measure to force Vladimir Putin to ask for peace negotiations. I do not want to beg Vladimir Putin to sit at the table. I want Vladimir Putin to beg Ukraine and allies of Ukraine how to end this war.”
The president of Poland, Andrzej Duda, said We must make sure that Russia does not regroup, does not get back some economic power. So even if there is a kind of deal, sanctions, economic pressure should continue,
We really have to step up and not scale back our support for Ukraine,
The enemy is Vladimir Putin. The enemy is outside. It’s not inside. And I see a lot of finger-pointing … That’s not helpful,
We have the NATO secretary-general talking about adding Ukraine to NATO,
Grenell told the Davos panel, tuning in on video from Los Angeles He is right of course, that the problem is not the U.S. and the problem is Europe,
Rutte said at a breakfast discussion about Ukraine at the World Economic Forum on Thursday, after key Trump ally Richard Grenell criticized him over the Netherlands’ defense spending and his own track record when he was Dutch prime minister Thanks partly also to [Trump] and maybe to a large extent, we have seen this upturn in spending in NATO on the European side,
We are safe now, but NATO collectively is not able to defend itself in 4 or 5 years if you stick to 2 percent now,
he added, amid fears that an increasingly belligerent Putin could turn his attention to an attack on a NATO member country We have to change the trajectory of the war,
The president of the United States is the leader of the free world. Vladimir Putin is an outcast and an indicted war criminal for stealing Ukrainian children,
You should be able to talk to people,
I would suggest that Putin has to earn the summit, that if he gets it early, it elevates him beyond his, significance and gives him the wrong idea about the trajectory of this,
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