What normal civilized nations do is accept responsibility and try to remedy, but not the Russians.
William Taylor
The Public Record
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May 9, 2025
The Ukrainians have been cooperative, flexible, supportive and eager to move forward, but the Russians have not.
— William Taylor
What we need to do is put maximum pressure on Putin so that he finally realizes that he cannot win this war.
We`re going to support them -- we`re going to support the Ukrainians as they push the Russians out.
He is emboldened, and he has got reason to be emboldened. His military, the Ukrainian military, is now pushing the Russians back.
The key -- the key place is on the battlefield in Ukraine, where he is losing, and his troops are not doing well.
What will really force him to stand down and to look for a way out is continued Ukrainian success on the battlefield.
What’s at stake here is the security of Europe. What’s at stake here is a democracy fighting an autocracy. What’s at stake here is freedom that we care about.
We need to maintain support. And other things pull at that attention, just exactly as you have described. It is no less important now than it was two months ago for the Ukrainians to win.
He used NATO expansion. Putin said that NATO expansion was what caused him to have to invade Ukraine. Well, he`s now saying actually, it`s no big deal. NATO expansion no big deal. That just shows the lies definitely that the NATO expansion…
This is not for any European or anybody just say what goes on the table for President Zelenskyy. He`s the one who decides.
President Putin had two bad options. People were debating whether he would choose one or the other that is doubled down or back down, declare victory and try to settle it down. He couldn’t really do either. He didn’t have a choice. There…
He really represents them. The Ukrainian people are strong, are tough. They’re determined to be free. They’re interpreted to be independent. And he is leading that.
the people that are perpetrating these war crimes, what Joe Biden calls genocide, was these things, we see, in Bucha, and in Mariupol, it's hard to stomach, sitting down, with people, who are perpetrating these kinds of acts.
If they start to win on the battlefield, continue to win on the battlefield, and in the end, win on the battlefield, that will be the way to push the Russians out.
Ukrainians can win, they do need what the foreign minister said. They need the heavy weapons now.
President Putin has given no indication that he's serious, about negotiations.
We want the Ukrainians to win soon. We want the Ukrainians to win and push the Russians out, so that they can regain their sovereignty.
We're going to be there. We're going to - the United States is going to be there, for as long as it takes.
Of course, the Ukrainians could clearly still win this there. They need resources. And they`ve got the will.
Ukrainians will say remember Mariupol, they remember Mario, because Mariupol is the essence of their fight, it is the essence of their determination, to be independent, to be free.
This war is -- was unprovoked. This was a -- this was a war of Russia on Ukraine, unprovoked, unjustified.
Ukrainians are fighting our fight. We are not there at their side. We are providing them weapons. We need to provide them more so that they can continue that fight.
What the Russians are doing is demonstrating to all of Europe why NATO is so important.
John, we have no reason to believe that the Russians will do what they say, they've not in the past.





