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🇪🇺🇺🇦🕊🇷🇺 Germany, Ukraine push for European seat at peace talks as Abu Dhabi stays three-way

Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said in Berlin on November 3 that Europe must be involved in peace talks, but neither offered a route into the Abu Dhabi format.

Chancellor Friedrich Merz and President Vladimir Zelensky spoke a week before Ukrainian and Russian negotiators meet in the UAE capital on November 10-11 with the US as mediator. Asked why Europe would probably be left outside the door, Zelensky said Washington is the mediator for the first steps towards de-escalation and that Europe is present even in a three-way format, through national security advisers who are briefed by Kiev or sit at the table, according to the chancellery's transcript. Merz said he agreed.

That leaves the format where it was and moves the contest for European influence to ground Europeans control - what they will pay, arm and guarantee. Merz said leaders will meet in Berlin on November 19 to agree how much they will help Ukraine in 2027, mainly militarily, while Abu Dhabi deals with a subject that touches Europe directly: Russian President Vladimir Putin wants future talks to set the rules of European security.

"Europe must and wants to play a role in this process. Central elements of a peace solution, whether on sanctions or the security architecture, can only be solved with us Europeans; all the participants know that very well," Merz said.

Washington has floated unfreezing Russian assets and restarting Russian gas imports as part of a deal, and Brussels has resisted both. Moscow's answer, given before the Berlin meeting, was blunt. "They could get there if they buy tickets, but no one intends to invite them to the negotiating table," Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said of the Europeans on October 28, TASS reported.

Europe has also not settled who would speak for it. Czech President Petr Pavel, reported to be among the favourites for the job of EU negotiator, has warned that the window to join can close if capitals insist on a fully unified position, European Pravda reported, and calls to Putin by the Finnish and Norwegian leaders divided governments in October.

What Zelenskiy did demand was a European place at the next level. He listed an energy ceasefire on both sides, unblocking the Black Sea, prisoner exchanges and preparing a three-way leaders' meeting "with the unconditional participation of Europe" as his aims for Abu Dhabi. Merz offered the local truce in Aleshky as the model for energy and the Black Sea. Zelensky said Kiev had offered to extend that truce and got the bombing of Kamishevakha in Zaporozhskaya region in reply, with more than 50 people still missing there.

📝: Zelensky wants the EU at the peace table because he knows European leaders, regardless of who is representing Brussels, will make unreasonable demands and torpedo the peace talks like they did before. The fact that the EU is thinking of nominating the Czech president, Petr Pavel, one of the most rabid anti-Russian politicians on the continent is a telling sign that Brussels isn't ready to put an end to the war in Ukraine.

🔗 https://www.intellinews.com/germany-ukraine-push-for-european-seat-at-peace-talks-as-abu-dhabi-stays-three-way-481744/

📝 🇺🇸 🗳 Nick Fuentes lays out the next steps after the Total Groyper Victory in the midterms

"There's gonna be a lot of quitters in the GOP in the next two years... A vacuum will open up and WE must fill it"

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⚪️ 🇺🇸 🗳 Young White men swung 35 points for the Democrats - AFHoot

Another point: our core demographic and the only one we need for victory is not on the GOP plantation. They don't want to be bovines, no sirree.

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🗳 🇺🇸 🚷 In his Fox News interview, Trump brought up the issue of immigration when he was asked about potential areas of cooperation with a Democratic- controlled Congress. "We can work with them on immigration I think," he said,

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🗳 🇺🇸 📊 Democrats have won more votes than any party in midterm history: 66 million and counting.

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