... and Portugal. Europe’s largest economy, Germany, has more room to borrow, with a debt level of 62 percent of GDP. Pressing security needs in UkrainePart of any security plan would be to help Ukraine defend itself from Russian attacks such as the one that hit Zelenskyy's hometown overnight ...
The U.S. gives Ukraine radar and situational awareness of Russian launches inside of Russia and Belarus. Think Russian jets with bombs that hit Ukraine, Russian drones, Russian missiles. A U.S. official and a congressional official understand to me that this kind of -- quote -- "imminent force protection" will be ...
... medical manufacturing. “The president knows that, look, if you want real security guarantees, if you want to actually ensure that Vladimir Putin does not invade Ukraine again, the very best security guarantee is to give Americans economic upside in the future of Ukraine,” Vance said in the Fox interview. Trump ...
... simply not Zelenskyy -- Zelenskyy's and the Ukrainians' experience over the last 11 years. They have 11 years of experience of numerous signed agreements between Ukraine and Russia, which have repeatedly been violated, and yet their country has no security. So it's quite, I think, understandable that Zelenskyy requires ...
Alexander Kots, a Russian war blogger, said that for Ukraine, “the U.S. aid suspension is unpleasant but not deadly.” He said that while Ukraine’s European allies can fill some of the gaps and provide artillery systems, they don’t have alternatives to the U.S.-made air-defense ...
... help is “vital” and has saved “perhaps tens of thousands” of civilian and military lives. But he emphasized that any peace agreement must be “on Ukraine’s terms, as the victim country.” Ukraine wants “concrete security guarantees” from Washington, European countries and Group of Seven leading industrialized nations, he said ...
... some assurances of security guarantees before he signs up to a cease-fire agreement, particularly one that he's not involved in negotiating. Nick Schifrin: Ukraine and Europe must also confront the possibility of losing U.S. military assistance. Ukraine would struggle to replace American air defense and Western artillery ...
But as we moved into 2023 and 2024, especially as Trump was critical of Ukraine, was more supportive of Putin, and as then-President Biden going to Ukraine, increasing aid to Ukraine, you saw Democrat support pretty much stay where it was at the beginning, but Republican support crater and ...
... embrace of fellow Europeans bearing gifts. Keir Starmer, British Prime Minister: Very, very welcome here in Downing Street. Malcolm Brabant (voice-over): As peacemaker between Ukraine and the White House, Britain's Keir Starmer reported back to President Trump. Keir Starmer: The United Kingdom, along with France and possibly one ...
“Starmer did an impressive job of asserting Europe’s agency in the war on Ukraine and conveying to President Trump that Europe is willing and able to take a leading role in implementing any credible peace deal," said Rachel Ellehuus, director-general of Royal United Services Institute, a defense ...
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