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What about NATO membership for Ukraine? Is that negotiable or non-negotiable? What about territory and borders? How do we deal with those? And what about arms control? Could, at some second or third stage, some arms control talks emerge? But some discussions between Washington and Moscow will be the first step that I think will need to be taken,
If we want to encourage movement in that direction in Russian thinking, the right thing to do is to make sure the Ukrainians don’t lose more territory in the Donbas and to help them weather this winter.”
In the meantime, Ischinger added Of course, as many of my friends remind me, the problem, is that if you paint a red line you’ve got to stick to it. You can’t do what Barack Obama did with his Syrian red line against the use of chemical weapons, which he then didn’t enforce.”
Talking with POLITICO on the margins of the recent annual Yalta European Strategy conference, a high-level gathering of Ukrainian and Western leaders and officials, Ischinger, added with a chuckle Russia keeps saying, if you do this, if you cross this or that red line, we might escalate,
said the 78-year-old onetime chairman of the Munich Security Conference It will make a difference, yes. It will make a difference whether it is [Kamala] Harris or [Donald] Trump. But if the latter, the risk I see is that Trump would think he can do it himself by just calling Vladimir,
They regard Europeans as vassals of Washington,
If there is going to be a process, it will be first sketched out between Moscow and Washington,
We need to remind ourselves that Russia, because of its history, because of its own experience and because of its cultural behavior, it doesn’t respect concessions or weakness; but Russians do respect strength,
The conditions for Russia's transition to the use of nuclear weapons are also clearly fixed,
Putin said, ... according to a Reuters translation of his comments But there is more work to do,