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Europe will have to assume that the U.S. will not continue its support at the current level under a President Trump and will, therefore, have to take on the full burden,
Based on what he did with Ukraine and Russia in his first term, and on what he's said the past couple of years, I am not hopeful that the Trump administration will develop and pursue a strong, effective comprehensive strategy to help Ukraine win and to protect the so-called international rules-based order,
U.S. failure to help Ukraine and walking away only means that the risk of further Russian aggression increases,
I think he’s going to make a phone call to Putin as quickly as possible and tell Putin that he needs to stop the war,
Volker told the Kyiv Independent shortly after the election results were called Wednesday That will start a discussion about how that actually happens,
[Trump] makes his own calls on national-security issues,
a former National Security Council aide told WSJ Strong and unwavering US leadership is vital for the world and for a just peace."
I would get [Putin] into a room. I’d get Zelensky into a room. Then I’d bring them together. And I’d have a deal worked out."
We can do training and other support but the barrel of the gun is going to be European. We are not sending American men and women to uphold peace in Ukraine. And we are not paying for it. Get the Poles, Germans, British and French to do it."
Quote of Trump’s team member Trump could mean anything for Ukraine—selling it for the sake of great power politics or doubling down on inflicting damage to Russia,
Orysia Lutsevych, deputy director of the Russia and Eurasia program at the Chatham House think tank, told Newsweek If you make it, say, $500 billion, a huge number, that should be enough to tell Putin he can't outspend this, he can't win this, ... and that could also point the way towards a settlement."
I don't think Trump wants to spend American taxpayers' money on Ukraine, but to allow Ukraine to borrow what it needs to defend itself,
But given his fascination with Putin, the risk is that the Kremlin can play the vanity card to its advantage. If Trump is convinced Ukraine is a problem to his ambition, it will be abandoned and will be presented as a European not an American problem,
Now, when the situation in the theatre of military operations is not in the favour of the Kyiv regime, the West is faced with a choice - to continue financing it and destroying the Ukrainian population or to recognise the current realities and start negotiating,
Trump will force us to stop the war on the condition that Russia gets everything it had occupied,
he said referring to the Republican’s obscure plan that lacks details and evidence Will he try to go down in history not with the failed Afghanistan [war], not with the incoherent aid to Ukraine, but with something way more substantial for America
Romanenko asked rhetorically With Trump … we’re not going to win the war,
the bearded chiropractor told Al Jazeera The US aid is ineffective, there’s objectively too little of it,
Nikolay Mitrokhin of Germany’s Bremen University told Al Jazeera We were so certain it would happen in the spring or summer” of 2023
recalled Ihor, who was stationed just a dozen kilometres from Russian forces Maybe Trump will stop this meat grinder, otherwise we risk losing people and the war,
Oleksandr said, referring to the horrendous losses of manpower and the draconian campaign to forcibly conscript men of fighting age
