“Would it be paranoid of me to wonder if we just opened the door for Russia to “earn” Narva and Vilnius “de facto”?”
landsbergis.com/the-shameful...

“The fastest way to broker a ceasefire in Ukraine, said Witkoff, was to support a strategy that would give Russia ownership of four eastern Ukrainian regions it attempted to annex illegally.”
www.reuters.com/world/trump-...

“He thinks if he blusters enough, then people will sort of fall away and that you can get on to the stuff you really want to do… But because it’s not based on a serious assessment of the situation — of the problems at hand — it doesn’t really work.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/w...

“I don’t care if Abraham Lincoln himself walked into the White House in 2029, no foreign leader can responsibly trust a nation that is perpetually four years away from electing another authoritarian nihilist.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/o...

“In weeks, President Trump has handed Moscow the gift that eluded it during the Cold War and since…
Gripped by a sense of abandonment, alarmed at the colossal rearmament task before it, astonished by the upending of American ideology, Europe finds itself adrift.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/w...

“Distance has its advantages. France cannot pretend that America is an extension of itself. Paris is a better viewing deck than London or Berlin from which to perceive the un-Europeanness of the US.”
https://www.ft.com%2Fcontent%2F4a03cc8f-3964-49b0-ae64-8a351d74c82d

“The US has decided to abandon the role in the world it assumed during the second world war. With Trump back in the White House, it has decided instead to become just another great power, indifferent to anything but its short-term interests.”
www.ft.com/content/b46e...

“Trump is only getting started… allies and erstwhile friends must banish self-soothing thoughts. With Trump, what you see is what you get.”

“Europeans must now start the painful process of “de-risking” its relationship with the US... They need to understand that their freedom is now at stake. Vance was right about that. Just not in the way he thought.”
www.ft.com/content/11f1...

“We are now behaving not as a Great Power — with “great” entailing moral considerations — but as a Big Power, one that frightens other countries, including our shaken friends.“

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/o...

“Russia has created an image of itself as the pinnacle of sophisticated culture, an impression that is firmly embedded in the Western world… when Ukrainians are still being tortured and raped and killed”
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/22/w...

“That Russia, China, Iran and North Korea have different political systems and ideologies, and aren’t joined by a formal alliance like NATO, had lulled Western governments into complacency… To think that we will be able to drive a wedge between them is a fantasy.”
www.wsj.com/world/has-wo...

“Merkel was said to embody a “post-heroic” style of leadership. A great strategic mind was said to smoulder away behind that quiet exterior and that coy rhombus of a hand gesture. Yeah, no. She was a sphinx without a secret.” on.ft.com/4f9mBDT

“Why a big war is looming which will bust Nato”