💬 “Taking control of Greenland would mean the appearance of an unsinkable US aircraft carrier in the Arctic region, from which it will be possible to conduct further military and geopolitical confrontation with China and, of course, with Russia as well,” the National Defense magazine editor-in-chief explains.

💬 “I strongly doubt that the US is ready at this point for a large-scale operation against Iran. Such an action would require a completely different level of military engagement than Venezuela, with far greater uncertainty,” Andrey Kortunov, an expert at the Valdai Discussion Club, told Sputnik.

💬 “NATO will remain, but it will be transformed into [an alliance] of the European Union plus the UK. Some countries, like Slovakia or Hungary, might not want to participate in this new, updated NATO,” the analyst and National Defense magazine editor-in-chief told Sputnik.

💬 “This is a new state of the world order, or rather, its destruction. This is an attempt by the US to maintain its dominance by securing zones of influence that are extremely important to the US itself,” Korotchenko summed up.

💬 “US oil majors will have to wait a very long time before benefiting from Venezuela’s oil largesse…Moreover, they feel embarrassed to be complicit” in this form of “daylight thievery with legal implications for them,” the expert told Sputnik.

💬 "Because the announcement formulated in such tricky and diplomatic language, that they are sending soldiers to Ukraine, means nothing more than that they are practically starting the war," the Hungarian FM stressed.

💬 “The crimes committed by Israel in Gaza and even in the West Bank constitute clear war crimes and acts of genocide,” al-Madzhali said, adding that Washington’s response reflects double standards rather than legal objections.

💬 “The problem is not the court, but enforcement,” he stressed, calling for UN and ICC reform and for ICC rulings to be binding on all countries without pressure or exceptions.

💬 “The US effectively leads NATO. Any conflict over territory linked to a NATO member would look like an internal clash and would, in essence, put an end to the alliance. NATO would become a meaningless organization,” he said.

💬 They "keep telling him that no peace deal can be agreed to without Ukraine’s approval and that is simply not the case," Pyne says.

"Our adversaries are trying to establish a foothold in the Arctic, and we can’t let that happen," Fine wrote on X, justifying the bill.

💬 “It’s not enough to kidnap and submit another head of state like Maduro to trial to make the Republican base understand that the US is back to this type of hegemonic approach against its so-called backyard,” the academic noted.

💬 “So the solution is to resort to old hard balancing tactics, such as interventions,” which prove costly to US taxpayers, for Latin Americans, and for global stability, Vieira summed up.