Weekend Quotables
'There's an antidote to doom and despair...'
The latest from the Ukrainian killing fields.
Moscow's war machine is gradually churning mile by mile through the wide open fields of the Donbas, enveloping and overwhelming villages and towns. Russia is gaining ground more quickly than at any time since it launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022. (BBC)
The Biden administration has signaled it wants Ukraine to lower the conscription age to increase its manpower on the battlefield. (Bloomberg)
For his part, Trump has said he wants to bring about an end to Russia’s war on Ukraine even before he takes office for his second presidential term on Jan. 20, raising concern that an armistice would be favorable to Russia. At the same time, he vowed in December to use US support for Ukraine as leverage against Russia to negotiate an end to the war. (Bloomberg)
More Weekend Quotables
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin III
Gen. Austin called the war in Ukraine “one of the great military success stories of our times.” — Speech
Trump's incoming national security adviser, Mike Waltz
We’re going to ask Ukraine to drop its draft age from 26 to 18, adding, "They could generate hundreds of thousands of new soldiers." — ABC’s This Week.
Hala Rharrit, former State Dept. official
I would show the complicity that was indisputable. Fragments of U.S. bombs next to massacres of-- of ch-- mostly children. And that's the devastation. It's been overwhelmingly children. — 60 Minutes
President Joe Biden
The economy I am leaving America is the best in the world and stronger than ever for all Americans. —
Christiana Figueres, former U.N. climate chief
“There is an antidote to doom and despair. It’s action on the ground, and it’s happening in all corners of the Earth.” — Linkedin
