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  • Steve Witkoff
    Steve Witkoff “The meeting was positive, upbeat, constructive. Everybody was there to get to the right outcome.” 22 hours ago
  • Marco Rubio
    Marco Rubio “Ending the war in Ukraine could unlock the door for incredible opportunities that exist to partner with the Russians geopolitically on issues of common interest and, frankly, economically on issues that hopefully will be good for the world and also improve our relations in the long term.” 22 hours ago
  • Sergey Lavrov
    Sergey Lavrov “We explained today that the deployment of any troops, any armed forces from NATO countries but under other flags, either the European Union or national flags, changes nothing in this context. For us, of course, this is unacceptable.” 22 hours ago
  • Marco Rubio
    Marco Rubio “Russia and the United States have agreed to restore their embassies in Moscow and Washington to previous staffing levels to facilitate continued diplomatic engagement. We will need active work of diplomatic missions capable of functioning normally to be able to continue these contacts.” 22 hours ago
  • Jana Puglierin
    Jana Puglierin “February 2022 destroyed our faith in a collective security order with Russia and showed us the dark side of our fundamental dependence on Russia and China in critical areas. February 2025 shows us that the Americans no longer feel responsible for European security - and that their interests are fundamentally different from ours.” 22 hours ago
  • Volodymyr Zelenskiy
    Volodymyr Zelenskiy “Ukraine, Europe in a broad sense - and this includes the European Union, Turkiye, and the UK - should be involved in conversations and the development of the necessary security guarantees with America regarding the fate of our part of the world.” 23 hours ago
  • Mariia Mezentseva
    Mariia Mezentseva “It's not yet very clear how this negotiating table will look. But defence and justice must be at the forefront of any solution to end the war, and the US, Europe and Ukraine must be on board. It's not Russia who can dictate the rules because they are the invaders. It has to be absolutely [reversed].” 23 hours ago
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January, 2025

“We came to establish a new country, to rebuild it. We will work with all our might to ensure that it will be a country that has the rights of all its people and is integrated with the region and the world. We will safeguard the territorial unity of Syria and prevent any threat to Turkey from Kurdish groups in Syria.”

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Syria’s new Foreign Minister
17 Jan 2025 (approx) 5 2
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“What we can be assured of is that the Trump administration is not interested in the establishment of a fully sovereign Palestinian state along the 1967 borders, and is not against Israel's plans to annex large swaths of the West Bank. In fact, some reports suggest that the Trump administration may have promised Netanyahu US support for the annexation of certain areas of the West Bank in exchange for his acceptance of the ceasefire deal, which Israel may not even follow through past phase 1. In such a scenario, if it indeed transpires, Trump gets what he wants, which is a political victory, and Netanyahu gets what he wants, which is the continued settler colonisation of Palestine.”

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Professor of Sociology at Mount Royal University
17 Jan 2025 10 3
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“It's going to be very difficult [to maintain the agreement between Israel and Hamas]. My sense, unfortunately, is that it is very unlikely we move past Phase One and toward a permanent peace. There are endless openings for spoilers on both sides, and serious disagreements remain about the details of the agreement's next steps. In Israel, there are many people who would like to see this war prosecuted indefinitely. Maybe they want to keep northern Gaza as a permanent buffer zone. Maybe they want to depopulate it and resettle it completely. Maybe they want to try to completely destroy Hamas, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu originally promised. Or maybe they want perpetual war as cover for aggressive actions elsewhere, such as in the West Bank. On the Palestinian side, there are plenty of opportunities for spoiler violence by hard-liners, by militant factions who don't like the way things are going, and by people who just want revenge for all the horrible things that have been done to them. If such violence occurs, the Israelis won't respond in a positive fashion.”

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Professor of political science at George Washington University and the director of its Middle East Studies program
17 Jan 2025 10 2
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“Trump is siding with TikTok because he believes the social media platform helped him in the 2024 election. So I think it is a sign that Trump's own convictions on China are fairly changeable, given what is politically advantageous to him. He certainly isn't a cold warrior at heart. In my view, his goal is to reach some sort of deal or accommodation with Beijing over the long term, even though he may well use confrontational tactics to build the leverage that is needed for that in the short- and medium-term.”

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Senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute
17 Jan 2025 3 3
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“We both attach great importance to interaction, hope for a good start of the China-U.S. relationship during the new U.S. presidency and are willing to secure greater progress in China-U.S. relations from a new starting point.”

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President of the People's Republic of China
17 Jan 2025 4 3
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“The administration is going to start right here in Chicago, Illinois. And if the Chicago mayor doesn't want to help, he can step aside. But if he impedes us, if he knowingly harbors or conceals an illegal alien, I will prosecute him.”

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Trump's incoming border czar
17 Jan 2025 3 2
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“The EU can expect a challenge from the moment Trump walks into the White House. First off Musk and Zuckerberg will overlook any rules that do not originate in the United States. They will ignore them to such an extent that American courts won't even respond to European court injunctions. The EU legal framework could be rendered essentially toothless, because even European politicians need these social networks to survive in today's environment. But the real problem would be if Big Tech firms turn their focus to harvesting user data en masse and using it to promote their own political interests. They're going to go all in.”

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CEO of Swiss cyber-security consulting firm UBCOM
17 Jan 2025 6 3
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“In October, Trump vowed to not let the EU 'take advantage of our companies', and Vice-president elect JD Vance has also stated that the US could drop support for NATO if the EU further regulates X. As a result, the Trump administration could lobby European leaders to prevent the commission from punishing X. Moreover, if the EU does impose the fine, Trump and Vance are likely to support Musk and denounce the fines as illegitimate. Musk could also use the platform itself to mobilise citizens and far-right parties to raise the political cost for EU decision-makers pursuing the crackdown.”

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Geopolitics and technology expert at the European Council on Foreign Relations
17 Jan 2025 9 3
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“For a whole cohort of younger voters, Trump and Trumpism are how they came to politics. For some, they're what they prefer. For others, they're merely an unwelcome reality of American democracy. But in either case, he is their normal.”

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President and CEO of The Pulaski Institution
17 Jan 2025 5 3
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“Cherrypicking in applying the Rome Statute is incomprehensible. How can we expect third countries to enforce the ICC arrest warrant against Putin (which they should!) and then say we won't enforce it against Netanyahu? Our credibility as a community of law is eroding.”

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EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
17 Jan 2025 5 1
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“The incoming Trump administration is trying to stir up problems because they feel they may more easily have their way with Greenlanders alone than, with the Danes. Political parties in Greenland are pro-independence, but what differs between different parties is their timing schedule. If you are really radically pushing for this, then you might think that US money can actually create a quick route to independence.”

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Professor of contemporary history at Denmark's Aarhus University
17 Jan 2025 8 4
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“Elon Musk's friendliness with the far right endangers democracy in Europe. He supports the far right everywhere in Europe - in the U.K., in Germany, in many, many other countries - and that is something that is completely unacceptable. It endangers the democratic development of Europe, it endangers our community and it must be criticized. His siding with the far right, whether for business interests or for reasons to do with his own political stance, is unacceptable.”

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Chancellor of Germany
17 Jan 2025 5 3
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“If you have a united Palestinian territory under a united Palestinian leadership, then Israel will be under pressure to participate in a political end game, and Netanyahu doesn't want that to happen.”

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Fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs
17 Jan 2025 4 2
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“Everyone sees Netanyahu as a dominant force in Israeli politics, but it is remarkable how much Smotrich and Ben-Gvir have been able to exploit his political fears to pursue their own agendas. The Netanyahu today is not the one of the past. He's more fearful and he's unable to make decisions, which has led to strategic paralysis.”

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Expert on Israel-Palestine for the European Council on Foreign Relations
17 Jan 2025 5 1
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“The agreement is very vague and there are a lot of places where Israel can - and will - manoeuvre its way out of it.”

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Palestinian legal scholar and a former negotiator with the Palestinian Liberation Organization
17 Jan 2025 2 1
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“Israel is very good at breaking ceasefires and making it appear that it wasn't its fault. This [deal] will provide immediate relief by getting humanitarian aid in and to provide for a release of hostages and prisoners. The [deal] is more of an immediate pause than a long-term solution.”

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Expert on Israel-Palestine with the International Crisis Group
17 Jan 2025 4 1
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