IPSE by Day - 20 November 2024

Mark Voyger

Inserted 1 month ago

“By doing this [stepping up talk of using nuclear weapons] Putin and his regime are first of all acknowledging that they are conventionally weaker than the NATO nations as a whole. Acknowledging that they are experiencing serious problems and will experience more should the Ukrainians continue with those strikes.”

Skynews

Transatlantic Defense and Security Program at CEPA

20 Nov 2024 5 2

Park Sun-won

Inserted 1 month ago

“The longer the war lasts, the deeper the ties between Russia and North Korea are likely to get. Moscow may grow more dependent on Pyongyang, and possibly transfer advanced technology that could be dangerous in the hands of Kim Jong-un. As Ukraine is in a state of war, they are engaged in psychological warfare just as Russia is. Some information [Ukraine suggests the North Korean contingent is much larger] out there is propaganda and not necessarily accurate. Our intelligence service is making the judgment on a combination of Ukrainian and other sources.”

Koreaherald

South Korean Politician - Member of a parliamentary intelligence committee

20 Nov 2024 6 2

Assed Baig

Inserted 1 month ago

“The decision to authorise the use of antipersonnel landmines is likely in line with a US attempt to help Ukraine slow down Russian advances in its east to gain more leverage in future peace talks. The Biden administration is on its way out, and we have President-elect Donald Trump coming into office, who has criticised US military aid to Ukraine and has also said he would end this war in a matter of days. So what the US administration wants is to put Ukraine in a very strong position to at least slow down some Russian advances so that when there are negotiations, Ukraine is put in a more advantageous position than what it is now.”

Aljazeera

Al Jazeera’s journalist reporting from Kyiv

20 Nov 2024 5 3

Robert Wood

Inserted 2 months ago

“We made clear throughout negotiations that we could not support an unconditional ceasefire that failed to release the hostages. A durable end to the war must come with the release of the hostages. These two urgent goals are inextricably linked. This resolution abandoned that necessity, and for that reason, the United States could not support it.”

Aljazeera

Deputy U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.

20 Nov 2024 6 3

Amos Hochstein

Inserted 2 months ago

“The meeting today built on the meeting yesterday, and made additional progress. So I will travel from here in a couple of hours to Israel to try to bring this to a close if we can.”

Timesofisrael

US President Joe Biden’s special envoy

20 Nov 2024 2 1

Aaron David Miller

Inserted 2 months ago

“The timing of the decision by the government of US President Joe Biden to pivot on its policy in the wake of the US election may be twofold. It may strengthen Ukraine before future talks while upping the political stakes for US President-elect Donald Trump within his own party. Clearly, if the ATACMS, which I suspect will have limited influence in the overall trajectory of the conflict, help in holding off Russian advances in the Kursk region, it would obviously prove to be beneficial. There are still a substantial number of Republicans … who believe that defending Ukraine is within the broadest conception of American national interests. Therefore Trump may choose not to undo Biden's ATACMS decision.”

Aje

Senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

20 Nov 2024 9 4

Markus Ziener

Inserted 2 months ago

“It was difficult to reconcile those three very different political ideas and ideologies. Infighting has weakened Germany's position within the European Union at a time when the bloc is sorely in need of leadership. The hope could be that the next elections will bring much more stable conditions to form a reliable government.”

Aljazeera

Senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund think tank

20 Nov 2024 1 2

Ehud Barak

Inserted 2 months ago

“The overall problem is that Netanyahu doesn't have a real strategy and hasn't been able to translate Israel's recent military successes into sustainable political gains. That has been the major failure of Netanyahu's government. Defeating Hamas cannot be defined as killing another 20,000 innocent people in Gaza - not even killing another 2,000 Hamas terrorists. There has to be a viable plan to bring back the hostages and for someone else to be given political power over Gaza. This someone else should be an entity recognized as legitimate by international law, by the international community, by Arab neighbors and by the Palestinians. The only entity that fulfills all these demands - if backed diplomatically by the U.S. and physically by Egyptian-Emirati forces - happens to be the Palestinian Authority, which is short of perfection and has a lot of weaknesses, but is much better than Hamas. The problem is Netanyahu's coalition is made up of extreme right wingers, including some messianic, racist Jewish supremacy guys. I compare them to the Proud Boys in America. But the leaders of the Proud Boys are in prison now, at least temporarily. In Israel, they're in the government.”

Politico

Former Prime Minister of Israel

20 Nov 2024 7 3

Han-bum Cho

Inserted 2 months ago

“U.S. officials have repeatedly stated that if North Korean troops join the fight, they will become legitimate targets. The primary targets of the ATACMS missiles are likely to be North Korean infantry in Russia's Kursk region, who are poorly armed. Even without the Trump factor, the war in Ukraine seems to have shifted to a phase of regional skirmishes focused on limited territorial gains, with a major expansion of the conflict looking unlikely. As the situation seems to be moving into a so-called 'control mode' with Trump's return, South Korea's rationale in providing military aid to Ukraine in response to North Korean troops could lack clarity.”

Koreatimes

Senior researcher at the Korea Institute for National Unification

20 Nov 2024 11 5

Doo Jin-ho

Inserted 2 months ago

“While it's important to align with the Biden administration, if South Korea provides military support to Ukraine while Trump is signaling a reduction in aid, it will inevitably affect the South Korea-U.S. alliance in the coming months. Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin may have already begun behind-the-scenes negotiations for a peace agreement.”

Koreatimes

Research fellow at the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses

20 Nov 2024 4 2

Gabriel Elizondo

Inserted 2 months ago

“This is the fourth time since October 2023 that the US has used its veto power to block a Gaza ceasefire resolution in the Security Council. The US [explained] its reasons: No condemnation of Hamas for the acts of October 7, [2023,] and also one paragraph called OP1. The US said it wanted in this draft the ceasefire to be connected and conditional on the release of all the captives. The draft called for the release of all captives and also called for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire but did not necessarily link them or make them conditional, and this is what the United States is saying it is against. But clearly, the US is on an island by itself. This draft resolution was a product of weeks of negotiations, and it was started by the elected 10 members of the Security Council. [There's] clear frustration on the part of the Security Council that there's been inaction on Gaza, and that's why the elected 10 members came up with this draft. It had been worked on for nearly three weeks now, but in the end, it was vetoed by the US.”

Aje

Al Jazeera’s journalist reporting from UN headquarters in New York

20 Nov 2024 7 2

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“The meeting today built on the meeting yesterday, and made additional progress. So I will travel from here in a couple of hours to Israel to try to bring this to a close if we can.”

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