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U.S. Senator Thom Tillis delivers a blunt assessment of Russian President Vladimir Putin, warning that Moscow cannot be trusted in any peace process involving Ukraine.
Speaking on international security, Tillis stresses that any resolution to the Ukraine war must respect Ukrainian sovereignty and include Kyiv at the negotiating table. He highlights NATO’s critical role, the importance of U.S. leadership, and the need for strong security guarantees — particularly from regional allies.
The senator also links the Ukraine conflict to broader strategic concerns, including NATO expansion, Arctic security, and Greenland’s growing geopolitical importance, underscoring how Russian aggression has reshaped global power dynamics.
00:00Resolution would not be just and I think I think that is an excellent excellent point, and I think
00:08That is what we are facing right now is perhaps
00:12A lack of respect for those exact principles that you're discussing
00:16Senator I'd like to turn to you. I noticed you're wearing a
00:20Pin could you could you tell us about the pin that you're wearing as importantly? I'm wearing colors of Ukraine
00:26That's true, too, and that's intentional. It wasn't accidental. I brought this from the United States
00:31For this purpose so I wasn't in Denmark before I arrived here for two days
00:39And I guess you're on Greenland. I'm sorry. You didn't go to new
00:43Not yet
00:45but they but to to really indicate that that that I
00:50I and a number of other members have made it very clear that the way that we're going about projecting power in the arctic is
00:57costly
00:58divisive and unnecessary
01:00We'll have a different panel discussion about that, but with respect to Ukraine. I completely agree with the minister
01:06I've said from the beginning that there can be no
01:11Resolution and in Ukraine without Ukraine at the table and actually without Ukraine's
01:16criteria for their freedom for their
01:20For their territorial integrity those are all decisions that have to be made by the president his advisers and the Ukrainian people
01:27The United States may be able to play a facilitating role
01:31But I think that other NATO members and other European members should also have a say in that because let's face it
01:36We're talking about European security. We're talking about the security of a country that has a
01:40Thirteen hundred and forty mile of 40 kilometer border now
01:44Thank you Vladimir Putin for letting us add Sweden and Finland to the mix
01:50Look Vladimir Putin is a murderer
01:53He's a liar on his best day and what we're seeing in Ukraine are his worst days. I was in Bucha
02:00I was in in Kiev in Bucha last year after the Munich Security Conference
02:04You can't trust him
02:06We have to have beyond Ukraine in the United States. We also have to have eyes on it from NATO allies particularly those in the area
02:14To make sure that we have a lasting and fair peace, but I think we we have to look at everything
02:19That Vladimir Putin says and run it through a truth
02:23filter because he simply can't be trusted so this agreement has to be very specific and there have to be consequences for violating it
02:31Can I ask you very directly? Do you think that all the noise around Greenland the threats of tariffs?
02:39I know we're going to talk about another settings, but do you believe that that all of this talk about Greenland is?
02:45To distract from the fact that there was hopefully going to be a deal announced this week and now there isn't now
02:50I can never get in the minds of people advising the president, but it certainly hasn't distracted Congress
02:56I think you'll see an appropriations measure in place that will demonstrate
03:01Financial support for Ukraine that will move through the Senate and the Congress in the coming weeks
03:07And you know in the United States as president forces us all to be able to walk and chew gum
03:13We can't just be focused on one issue and I think in this case we have to continue to focus on the real threat
03:20There's no threat in Greenland, which is why you know, I think it's
03:25It's it's something that we need to deescalate something that we need to advise the president on a and a peaceful more unifying path to achieving his goals
03:33which in which
03:35We can talk about separately
03:38But here the focus is on Ukraine
03:40I think the American people still continue to support Ukraine and this is an election year
03:45Those who veered too far away may have electoral consequences to deal with frankly
03:50And that's what I love about the fact that you're on our panel because you're not running for election this year
03:54Yeah, but as I told the minister as I told the minister if you check my record and the first administration
04:00I was equally outspoken here. Here's the point. This is where it's very important. I
04:05I support the majority of President Trump's policies. I'll give you a good example in Greenland
04:09I support the what being able to project power in the Arctic. My goodness anyone in NATO should understand that as a priority
04:17We had Russia and China
04:20Actually in military exercises in the Arctic for the first time large-scale military exercises
04:25So clearly we have to have a power projection platform and Greenland makes a lot of geographic sense
04:31But you're talking about a territory that has offered for a dollar one of their military bases at the height of our relationship with Greenland and Denmark
04:40We had 17 military operations here we have one today
04:43For anyone to suggest that in order for us to be present in Greenland and project power that it requires some financial transaction
04:51Which incidentally as a fiscal conservative would be more costly than we need to to achieve the president's aim?
04:58And I think over time hopefully we will get to the president to recognize that and have the policy that that's commensurate with that
05:06I suppose the argument is that
05:09In a world where China with Russia as a somewhat client state
05:14Rising in its power if the United States does not own that territory that they could get very severe and serious pushback from a Europe that is wavering between
05:23Between the United States and a very very powerful China anyway, that's yeah, but but again if I can just briefly a part of these way in as well
05:33a part of what we have to a part of the reason that we're here is is President Trump's
05:40Justifiable frustration with some of our brothers and sisters in NATO
05:44Who came far short of their investment in our mutual defense over the last 20 years?
05:49I've been the Republican leader of the Senate NATO observer group for 20 years
05:55Collectively two
05:57Trillion dollars with a T
05:59Has not been spent to achieve the minimum that our colleagues should have in NATO
06:05Can you imagine what deterrent effect there would have been if every member of NATO had actually invested the two trillion dollars over 20 years?
06:13What would that have done for modernization?
06:15What would that have done for the industrial base? So I think a part of the president's frustration and
06:23No one can doubt that everyone paying up to the minimum now and now achieving five percent limits
06:30Anyone credit anyone other than Donald Trump's not been following current events every past president in this century
06:38Attempted to do it and they didn't so I think he's frustrated by that
06:41But that frustration should not transcend
06:44Into the current policy posture with respect to Greenland
06:47I think we have to de-escalate it, but I hope that this is
06:50An important lesson learned by those of us who care about NATO and believe it's the most consequential and important treaty in the history of man
06:59Let's make sure that we don't drift again
07:02Are we put ourselves in the same sort of vulnerable position that we find ourselves today?
07:07Could I could I just?
07:09Emphasize the importance of focusing on Ukraine, which is what this panel is about
07:14We have
07:16Heard from someone from the president's office
07:19In fact the president of Ukraine's office lens case office about the importance of
07:25security guarantees and the importance of Ukraine
07:28Deciding its own sovereign
07:32Volunteer of the president
07:35What would I do?
07:35So
07:37Heard from someone from the administration
07:40We have to go
07:40Back to someone from the president
07:43Heard from somebody who has a person
07:44To the president of Ukraine
07:45And he was the one who is in the world
07:45Heard from somebody who has been the one who is in the world
07:47Heard from my father
07:49YouAsia
07:50Heard from somebody who is the president of Europe
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