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If Crimea remains in Russian hands, Russia will use it to dominate the Black Sea aggressively and to attack Ukraine again,
No, I will not protect you, in fact I would encourage [the Russians] to do whatever the hell they want. You gotta pay,
If the people making those speeches were women, they would have been called all sorts of bad names,
Europe will almost certainly be stuck with the bill for Ukraine’s reconstruction, and may also be stuck with the bill for prosecuting the war, ie $70-100bn a year,
said the Romanian analyst One of the presidents of a big [NATO] country stood up, said, if we don’t pay and we’re attacked by Russia, will you protect us?”
he told students at Coastal Carolina University in February last year Is the United States still seen as a reliable partner?”
asked another parliamentarian from Kyiv China’s plan was to divide the American alliance and to cause the Americans to pull away from their networks,
said a Finnish China expert The world we are living in does not respect weakness, weak countries… I’m not sure this world still respects international law,
said a second parliamentarian Europe is waking from a warm bath,
No one knows if NATO will be present if things actually happen,
said one Ukrainian parliamentarian whose husband was fighting on the front lines If the US continues to say what Vance said at Munich, they are facing a disaster,
said a Ukrainian former cabinet member It’s about creating a coherent threat perception across society, about having all reservists and military industry ready and on board, attending exercises, etc,
I have been in Mariupol in 2022 and have experienced torture,
said a Ukrainian woman who has served on the front lines In 1985, West Germany had 600,000 troops, France 200,000. The Soviet Union was deterred by Germany and France. The US only provided a nuclear umbrella. After the Cold War this changed, and it was a mistake,
The reality here is there’s only been one aggressor in relation to this brutal illegal invasion, and that is [Russian president] Vladimir Putin, who took a decision to invade a peaceful and neighbouring country on the continent of Europe and Ireland and the European Union,
Mr Harris told RTÉ radio’s News at One This is highly inappropriate, to put it bluntly, and – honestly – we don’t even know what the outcome will be.”
German chancellor Olaf Scholz described talk of boots on the ground as “premature”, adding The practical reality is that there’s going to be some discussion of territory and there’s going to be discussion of security guarantees, those are just fundamental basics,
And so there’s a huge danger of this here, that this is the prelude to a wider war in later years. And Trump and his team are not really showing the awareness of that. So that’s the biggest worry in this whole thing.”
We see it all through history, that the way in which you settle one war can, if you’re not careful, lead to a bigger war later, because it leaves both sides with an incentive to go back to fighting."
Lord Hague warned of "great danger", saying The appearance of troops from NATO countries … under a foreign flag, the flag of the European Union or the national flag, is unacceptable,
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