Hegseth:

Rather than maintaining the austere focus on the profession of arms, our institutions succumbed to the prevailing intellectual fashions of the civilian academy, a system that is largely abandoning teaching students how to think in favor of indoctrinating them into what to think.

Hegseth:

Just look at the mission statements from across our colleges. The word "win" is entirely absent. The word "defeat" does not appear.

The word "victory" appears exactly once, buried inside strained institutional jargon.

This is the language of civilian bureaucracy, not military command.

Hegseth on Iran:

It doesn't have to be necessarily popular, but it can be necessary.

Someone had to confront the Iranian regime.

Hegseth on Iran:

You can't let crazy Islamists have a nuclear bomb.

Hegseth on Iran:

History will judge Trump very kindly.

Hegseth:

We're not worried about impeachment. We're going to do a press conference tomorrow morning on that topic.

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Germany's Chancellor Merz:

Antisemitism is once again omnipresent.

Sometimes it is disguised in the language of anti-colonial liberation struggles or criticism of Israel.

Germany's Chancellor Merz:

As the federal government, we are doing, and will continue to do, everything in our power to protect Jewish life in our country and around the world.

In doing so, we stand unwaveringly by Israel's side.

The fact that there is a country, a state in the world where Jews are not a vulnerable minority, where they can find protection when barbarism once again prevails in their home countries, is also part of our historical responsibility.

Germany's Chancellor Merz:

Historical responsibility means speaking out against antisemitism and confronting it wherever it appears.

It means taking an interest in Israel's fate.

EU’s Kaja Kallas on Abu Dhabi talks on Ukraine:

I don't have very high expectations regarding these talks, because we haven't seen really any signs from Russia that they are willing to negotiate in good faith.

We would also like to see goodwill from Russia, for example not killing civilians every single day and not attacking civilian infrastructure. So far they have not done that.

Germany's Chancellor Merz:

As a German, I am infinitely grateful that Jews, after the Shoah, have once again, so to speak, pitched their tents here in our country and here in Munich.

That communities have emerged here, kindergartens, retirement homes, restaurants, and that synagogues have been built, and are still being built or restored.

EU’s Kaja Kallas:

We have European security architecture in place. I've counted at least 30 international agreements where Russia has taken up obligations to respect sovereignty and territorial integrity.

Our problem is that Russia is not keeping to those agreements.

If you think about the Budapest Memorandum, Ukraine gave up their nuclear weapons so that they would not be attacked by Russia.

EU’s Kaja Kallas:

Midterm elections showed the will of the American people, and elections always bring results also in terms of policy changes. We don't see that at the moment yet, because it's too early.

We are willing to work with whatever Congress or Senate or administration there is.

What we hope is that we would see also pressure put on Russia from the American side.

Russia's Representative at the UN Security Council, Vasily Nebenzya:

The permanent representative of Ukraine… insinuated that we allegedly are calling the Ukrainians cockroaches and lice. This is a lie.

Latvia's Foreign Minister Baiba Braže says Russia is committing genocide against Ukraine:

These atrocities amount to acts that define genocide, and they are all clearly set out in Article 2 of the Genocide Convention.

BREAKING: Rep. Thomas Massie reintroduces articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

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Marco Rubio:

We can inflict tremendous damage on the ICC unless they see the error of their ways.