🇺🇸🇬🇧🇪🇺📊⚡️🇺🇦 — 📰 ZeroHedge | Visualizing Washington's Key Role In Military Aid To Ukraine | March 10, 2025:

"As doubts over future American support for Ukraine and the Trump administration's commitment to NATO loom large, European leaders have rallied to assure Ukraine of its unwavering support and to become more independent of their transatlantic partner.
 
On Thursday, leaders gathered for a special European Council meeting, where the future of Europe’s security and the bloc’s role in Ukraine's defense against Russian aggression was discussed.

“This is a watershed moment for Europe. And it is also a watershed moment for Ukraine, as part of our European family,” Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, said in a statement.

“Europe faces a clear and present danger. And therefore, Europe has to be able to protect itself, to defend itself, as we have to put Ukraine in a position to protect itself, and to push for a lasting and just peace.”

As Statista's Felix Richter reports, to be able to negotiate a “peace through strength”, as von der Leyen put it, the EU must quickly ramp up its military aid to Ukraine after U.S. President Donald Trump paused U.S. military support earlier this week.

According to the IfW Kiel’s Ukraine Support Tracker, the EU’s 27 member states have allocated a total of $53.8 billion in military aid to Ukraine between January 24, 2022 and December 31, 2024.

That’s equivalent to 39 percent of total military aid supplied to Ukraine during that time and roughly $15 billion short of what the U.S. supplied. 

Adding contributions from European non-EU members Norway and the UK, Europe’s military aid to Ukraine was roughly on par with U.S. support so far, meaning it would have to double its investment if the U.S. were to withdraw its support permanently."

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🗣💬🇹🇷🔫🕊🗺 — 📰 Reuters | Turkey ready to send troops to Ukraine if necessary, source says:

"ANKARA, March 6 (Reuters) - Turkey, with the second largest army in NATO after the United States, could contribute to a potential peacekeeping mission in Ukraine, a Turkish defence ministry source said on Wednesday.

"The issue of contributing to a mission will be considered if deemed necessary for establishing regional stability and peace, and will be assessed mutually with all relevant parties," the source told reporters in Ankara.

Europe's main military powers Britain and France have already discussed deploying troops in a potential force to monitor a ceasefire in Ukraine after a future peace deal, while Washington has said it would not send Americans.

Ukraine says any peace agreement would require a robust force on the ground to provide security guarantees; Moscow has rejected any deployment of NATO member forces, although U.S. President Donald Trump says he believes Russia might agree.

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Turkish media reported last week that President Tayyip Erdogan had discussed a possible deployment with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during separate meetings in Ankara last month."

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🏳‼️🗺➡️🇷🇺 — 📰 The New York Times | Ukraine Must Cede Territory in Any Peace Deal, Rubio Says | The secretary of state, heading to talks with Ukrainian officials in Saudi Arabia, said future talks with Moscow will be needed to determine what Russia is willing to give up to end the war | March 10, 2025:

"Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Monday that Ukraine would have to make concessions over land that Russia had taken since 2014 as part of any agreement to end the war.

Mr. Rubio spoke as he was flying to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, for talks with senior Ukrainian officials, and 10 days after a contentious White House meeting between President Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky. The Trump administration halted military aid to Ukraine after the blowup, which centered on Mr. Trump’s refusal to include any security guarantees in a proposed deal involving Ukraine’s natural resources.

“The most important thing that we have to leave here with is a strong sense that Ukraine is prepared to do difficult things, like the Russians are going to have to do difficult things to end this conflict or at least pause it in some way, shape or form,” Mr. Rubio told reporters.

Mr. Rubio declined to offer the outline of a potential agreement but made clear that concessions by both sides would be central to diplomacy.

“I think both sides need to come to an understanding that there’s no military solution to this situation,” Mr. Rubio said. “The Russians can’t conquer all of Ukraine, and obviously it’ll be very difficult for Ukraine in any reasonable time period to sort of force the Russians back all the way to where they were in 2014.”

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🇺🇦🏆🥇📊🔫 — 📰 ZeroHedge | Ukraine Is Now The World's Biggest Arms Importer | March 11, 2025:

"Ukraine was the world’s biggest importer of arms between 2020 and 2024, with a global share of 8.8 percent, based on the size and value of the transfer rather than the purchasing price. 

This is according to new data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), released Monday. 

As Statista's Anna Fleck shows in the chart below, it was followed by India (8.3 percent), Qatar (6.8 percent), Saudi Arabia (68 percent), Pakistan (4.6 percent) and Japan (3.9 percent). These five countries accounted for 35 percent of all arms imports over the latest five year average."

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🇺🇸📞🇺🇦❗️ — US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio: Today, we've made an offer that Ukrainians accepted

"Which is to enter into a ceasefire and into immediate negotiations to end this conflict in a way that's enduring and sustainable and accounts for their interests, their security, their ability to prosper as a nation.

We'll take this offering out of the Russians, and we hope that they'll say yes to peace.

[Trump] wants the war to end, and Ukraine has taken a concrete step in that regard.

We hope the Russians will reciprocate."

🇺🇸📞🇺🇦 — US National Security Advisor Waltz:

We've gone from if the war is going to end -- to now how the war is going to end.

🇺🇸🇷🇺 Trump says he hopes Putin will agree to the ceasefire.

We already posted the news, but we had to share this video—why is Elon just standing there like a weirdo? 🤣

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🇷🇺🇺🇸 Russia does not rule out contacts with U.S. representatives in the coming days, Maria Zakharova told TASS.

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🇺🇸🇷🇺 "It takes two to tango" – Trump says he will talk to Vladimir Putin.

Meanwhile, Elon just keeps standing there, being all autistic.

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🇺🇸🇷🇺 "If Russia doesn’t agree to a ceasefire, we will just keep fighting and supplying Ukraine." - Trump

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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 A Ukrainian official told The Telegraph that part of the decision to agree to a ceasefire is aimed at "exposing Putin's bluff about his willingness for peace talks."

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🇷🇺🔫🚫🕊🇺🇦 — 🇧🇾 NEXTA Live:

"It has begun... Russia will not agree to a 30-day ceasefire

Because it will only allow Ukraine to regroup and rearm, said (although he was not asked) State Duma deputy Viktor Sobolev.

Sobolev believes that a temporary ceasefire is unacceptable and only plays into Ukraine’s hands."

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🇨🇳🤑🇵🇦🌎 — 🇺🇸 The Epoch Times | Beijing’s ‘Panama Strategy’ Is Global | Chinese regime wants to control key waterways to set up global trade controls and military dominance in a bid to challenge the United States | March 6, 2025:

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The ‘Panama Strategy’ Goes Global

In the larger picture, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) through its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has deepened its presence and influence in Latin America, as it has in many strategic areas around the globe. The BRI, also known as “One Belt, One Road,” is a global infrastructure and investment scheme to insert Chinese money, influence, and personnel into nations worldwide by building needed infrastructure such as roads, railways, ports, and energy pipelines.

BRI participation typically weakens foreign governments by leaving them deep in debt to Beijing, resulting to some degree in a loss of sovereignty or control over Chinese-built ports and other infrastructure."

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🇺🇸🚫🇨🇺🇭🇹 — The Donald Trump administration is considering banning Cubans and Haitians from entering the United States as part of a new travel restriction, according to the *Miami Herald*.

🇪🇨🤝🏴‍☠️ — President Daniel Noboa announces an alliance with Erik Prince, founder of the private army Blackwater, to combat narco-terrorism and illegal fishing in Ecuador:

"Organized crime has spread fear and believed it could operate with impunity. Their time is up. International assistance in Ecuador is beginning. In a meeting with Erik D. Prince, founder of Blackwater, we have established a strategic alliance to strengthen our capabilities in the fight against narco-terrorism and the protection of our waters from illegal fishing.

There is no truce. No retreat. We move forward."

Daniel Noboa Azin (@DanielNoboaOk) 🖇

🇷🇸🇷🇸❌🇧🇦 — Serbian Prime Minister Miloš Vučević:

"Arresting Dodik is a path to civil war".