Ukraine can provide no less security in the future than Europe provides Ukraine today — through our experience and military technologies.

Ukraine is not asking someone to allow it to become a member of the EU.

The EU understands the necessity of Ukraine being in the EU on equal terms, because Ukraine brings its own type of investment into the EU — investment into the security of the European Union.

I am glad that Ukraine’s status has changed: from being a country asking for help, to becoming equal partners.

Ukraine is capable of responding to Russia’s operations — any operation.

Russia knows that if they strike — and they are preparing to strike our energy system in winter — Russia will receive the same in return.

If they create blackouts for us, we will try to respond in a worthy way.

This is a very costly process for the Russian Federation. Of course, it is costly for Ukraine as well.

War is expensive, but Russia is losing a huge number of people, completely disproportionate, certainly compared with Ukrainian losses.

There is no army like Ukraine’s in Europe right now.

Of course, for now — Europe is developing and will receive information, technologies, and experience from us through partnership.

But there is no such army anywhere in Europe.

If China wanted to come in and open a plant to build their cars here, I would be okay with it. Japan does it. But they hire our people.

The big thing is they hire our people. In fact, they use our people.

People say he spies on us but we spy on him too. We are good at it also. We get along.

The fact we get along is a good thing. We do well with China now.

CDU is polling at just 6–8% with eight days to go, the party could miss the 5% threshold entirely and be locked out of the state parliament for the first time.

Lead candidate has distanced himself from Chancellor Merz, who was booed at his only campaign stop.

AfD leads at ~38%, with the race polarized into an SPD vs. AfD contest that's crushing the CDU in the middle.

This comes two weeks after AfD's 44% landslide in Saxony-Anhalt.