'I would say to the Taiwanese: Do you really want to be the Ukrainians of East Asia?'

"I said to the Ukrainians do you really want to be the Afghanistan of Europe? I would say to the Taiwanese: Do you really want to be the Ukrainians of East Asia? The answer is absolutely no. Be careful, the United States cannot save you. In fact all it can do is get you destroyed because Taiwan will be safe and secure if the United States stops its provocations … [It] doesn’t care about Taiwan, I’m sorry to say. It cares about its competition with mainland China, and Taiwan is a piece of the game." Jeffrey Sachs

"I don't see any prospect for an agreement within the present paradigm at all. Now Europe is complete block on the whole process. I mean their aim is to
undermine it because they want the war to continue. They want a ceasefire, not
a solution. They want a ceasefire in Ukraine so that they can go back in rearming. They say this explicitly. It's not my presumption. They want to retrain
the Ukrainians and they want to continue the war with Russia because the our elites in Europe are desperate. They have nothing else to hold the European Union and the whole NATO together other than flying the flag. Let's rally to the flag of Ukraine, part of Europe. It's not part of Europe. They're Slavs just as Russia are Slavs. genetically they have no connection with Europe any more than Russia is a European state." Alastair Crooke


'France must be prepared to “lose its children” in a war with Russia in the next “three to four years”, the country’s new armed forces chief has warned.' Daily Telegraph headline


Zelensky's former Press Secretary, Iuliia Mendel: