French President Macron:

One day, Russians will have to reckon with the enormity of the crime committed in their name and with the devastating long-term effects on their country.

French President Macron:

We should definitely step up and expand this effort against the Russian shadow fleet because it is effective—and it is painful for Russia’s war economy.

French President Macron:

If we reach a settlement on Ukraine, we will still have to contend with an aggressive Russia, with a defensive industry on a sugar high and a bloated army.

French President Macron:

We have to be the ones to negotiate this new architecture of security for Europe’s day after, because our geography will not change.

We will live with Russia in the same place, and the Europeans are in the same place, and I don’t want this negotiation to be organized by somebody else other than Europeans.

French President Macron:

Europe has to become a geopolitical power. It’s ongoing, but we have to accelerate.

French President Macron:

When I speak about Europe becoming a power, I don’t speak about France or Germany becoming a power.

I speak about Europe.

Marco Rubio skipped a key meeting with European leaders on Ukraine in Munich, cancelling at the last minute due to scheduling conflicts.

European officials viewed the move as a sign that Washington is losing interest in coordinating closely with its allies on ending the war.

One EU official called the decision “insane,” and another said the meeting lacked substance without US participation.

Source: FT

Trump:

Our advanced F-22 Raptor Fighter Jet — Greatest in the World!

French President Macron:

It makes sense to develop the Future Air Combat System together with Germany and Spain.

It does make sense to have concrete projects like air defense with new-generation systems with Italy and the UK.

It does make sense to have early warning systems like our initiative with Germany.

If this money is used just to have national solutions or to favor national players without a clear European approach— to build European standards, to simplify Europe, and to help countries deploy additional industrial footprints—we will waste our money, waste our time, and create a lot of these synergies. Huge mistake!

So, I’m an old-fashioned guys in these days, but I do believe in the FCAS. I do believe in joint projects, and I do believe in some stage of new generation systems, because it’s hard for me to understand how we will build new command solutions if we destroy the few ones we had. Sorry to say that.

French President Macron on social media:

Foreign interference, amplified by online platforms and social media, is clearly a critical issue for all of us.

How is it that the craziest and most harmful narratives can go unchecked in our digital space, when they would fall under the law if published in print?

Will we give the mind, the brain, the heart of our teenagers to the algorithms of big guys?

I’m not totally sure I share the values of Chinese algorithms without any control. We are crazy.

This is why we launched this initiative to ban access to social media for those under 15 years old.

Because it’s a matter of health, but also protection of our education and democracy.

Trump:

They design ugly equipment for stealth.

We are designing great-looking equipment, also stealth.

French President Macron on social media:

We must go further in the regulation of social media in order to preserve the DNA of our democracy.

Because at the same time, we are opening Pandora’s box and allowing a lot of hate speech on these platforms and social media. We are too weak and too naive.

And we should ask these platforms, first, to completely block bots.

We have to be sure there is one single person with one account. If this is an AI system, if this is bought and organized by a big organization, it should simply be forbidden.

We need transparency of the algorithm. We are a democracy. We don’t ask for the IP, but we do ask for transparency, which is part of our democracy.

We need responsibility from these platforms when they don’t respect our social order, when they don’t respect our rules.

And to allow us to do so, we have to go further in order to sue those who clearly decide not to respect our rules and our regulation. And we should block all those who refuse to comply.

Trump:

We are purchasing new Abrams tanks, still the best tank, right?

It was named in honor of Stacey Abrams.

Only a few very political people would understand that.

French President Macron on European nuclear deterrence:

This is exactly what we are doing for the first time in history with Germany.

We have to re-articulate nuclear deterrence in this approach. And this is why we are conceiving it in a few weeks’ time.

Trump on Venezuela:

The Russian equipment didn’t work, the Chinese equipment didn’t work.

Everyone is trying to figure out, “Why didn’t it work?”

Some day you are going to find out.

Trump on Iran:

We sent a very big carrier group to Iran.

They have been difficult to make a deal.

Senator Graham on Iran:

It’s a religious theocracy that, if they could get a nuclear weapon, would use it to advance three goals: purify Islam, destroy the Jewish state, and come after us.

Hitler wrote he wanted to kill all the Jews—nobody believed him. I believe the Ayatollah and his regime—not the Iranian people—are religious fanatics, religious Nazis.

Hitler wanted a master race; they want a master religion.

There’s no negotiating with these people, in my view. They’re hell-bent on a religious agenda that teaches them to lie and destroy in the name of God.

Senator Graham on Iran:

You can't say "keep protesting, we got your back, help is on the way" and nothing happened.

Any deal about Iran has to come to the Senate. I'm not going to bless a bad deal.

Senator Graham on Venezuela:

If you're in charge of Venezuela now and you want to keep doing what Maduro did, you're an idiot.

You're either going to get killed or go to the jail.

Senator Graham on Iranian protestors:

They've been shot down on the street like dogs.

These are the people you want to help.

Senator Graham to Saudi Arabia’s MBS and UAE’s MBZ:

Be smart. Knock it off, Saudi Arabia. Knock it off. I'm tired of this crap.

MBZ is not a Zionist. You're emboldening Iran by having this conflict.

I know they got differences in Yemen and they got differences in Sudan, but we got to think big picture.

To any leader in the region that doesn't understand you're on the verge of history, history would judge you poorly because you are.

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