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What we can't answer, but we're going to continue to test, is whether there is an outcome that Ukraine can live with and that Russia will accept.

has with Europe when it comes to China.

We should never be in a situation where our alliance and our respective countries are vulnerable to extortion or blackmail because someone controls 9% of something that's critical to national life.

So I think we do have a vested interest in that regard.

Today is different than yesterday, but it has parallels, not in that China's the new Soviet Union, but that

Our own fate will be intertwined with what happens with Europe.

We want Europe to survive.

We want Europe to prosper because we're interconnected in so many different ways and because our alliance is so critical.

But it has to be an alliance of allies that are capable and willing to fight for who they are and what's important.

What we can't answer, but we're going to continue to test, is whether there is an outcome that Ukraine can live with and that Russia will accept.

So in a time of headlines heralding the end of the transatlantic era, let it be known and clear to all that this is neither our goal nor our wish.

Because for us Americans, our home may be in the Western Hemisphere, but we will always be a child of Europe.

The old world is gone, frankly, the world I grew up in, and we live in a new era of geopolitics, and it's going to require all of us to re-examine what that looks like and what our world is going to be.

And

We've had many of these conversations in private with many of our allies.

We are our allies.

And we need to continue to have those conversations.

And I think Saturday, hopefully, and the meetings while they're in Memphis.