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โ€ผ๏ธ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Meloni: I do not consider the sending of Italian soldiers to Ukraine necessary; the main instrument to build security guarantees is an โ€˜Article 5-likeโ€™ system.

I do not consider it necessary, also because of how many troops would be needed to deter an army of about 1.5 million in Russia?
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๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธSteve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev in Paris to discuss the U.S. peace plan for Ukraine, - Axios

The meeting came after talks with Ukraine and European leaders.
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๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski:

We have found a way to reassure Ukraine that its state functions and defense budget will be sustained by the European Union โ€” with โ‚ฌ90 billion over the next two years. That is changing Putinโ€™s calculus.

He may have hoped from the beginning that democracies would tire โ€” that democracies are weak and lack staying power.

Now he has to be ready to fight for at least two more years, and it is not clear that his army or his economy can bear that burden.

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๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธโ—๏ธ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ JD Vance: Europe always make an argument about the past: โ€œwe fought together in World War II,โ€ or โ€œwe fought together in the War on Terrorism.โ€ We are grateful for that. We love having these allies.

But just because you did something smart 25 years ago doesnโ€™t mean you canโ€™t do something dumb now.