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… a list of twenty friends of Ukraine-the countries that had contributed most to its defense. The United States was the unchallenged leader, with its com mitment of $46 billion (0.22 percent of its GDP) for that purpose. But the list also took note of visits of national leaders to Kyiv and other forms of support, including participation in sanctions against Russia, which put Poland one line above the United States and made it the unri valed champion, scoring 97 of 100 possible points. In terms of … Warsaw, and Kyiv announced the creation of a British-Polish-Ukrainian military initiative that the Ukrainian foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, called a ''tripartite format of cooperation." According to reports in the Italian media, during his April visit to Kyiv Johnson proposed to Zel ensky the creation of a potential rival to the European Union-a UK led European Commonwealth including Poland, the Baltic states, and Ukraine. Clearly, for Johnson, Brexit did not mean abandoning Euro pean … THE RUSSO-UKRAINIAN WAR mate changed, and Nord Stream II suddenly found itself in hot water: Germany's allies, the United States in particular, wanted the German government to stop the certification of the controversial pipeline. In February, Scholz visited Washington and apparently agreed with Biden to cancel Nord Stream JI certification if Put in went to war. "If there is military aggression against Ukraine, tough, mutually agreed and far-reaching sanctions will be imposed. It will be extremely …