02/11/2025
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"I think the new Ukrainian Government has done a good job of making clear its concern about Ukrainian citizens, west and east, across the whole country."
"Putin's game is not 21st century statesmanship, but 19th century gamesmanship."
"The conflict and the Assad regime have become a magnet for foreign fighters, many affiliated with terrorist groups."
"The hard reality is that the grinding Syrian civil war is now an incubator of extremism on both sides of the sectarian divide."