By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-15 18:27:47 | Updated at 2025-01-15 21:01:04
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Rubio says both Russia and Ukraine must make concessions to end war
Guardian UK ^ | 1/15/2025 | Andrew Roth
Posted on 01/15/2025 10:14:05 AM PST by marcusmaximus
Marco Rubio said that both Russia and Ukraine will have to make “concessions” in order to reach the peace deal promised by Donald Trump as he offered a full-throated defense of the president-elect’s vision for America’s role around the world – and his own hawkish record on foreign policy.
Rubio, Trump’s nominee for secretary of state, told the Senate foreign relations committee that the war in Ukraine had become a “stalemate” and “has to end”; that the US should show China that it would pay “too high” a price for invading Taiwan; and that European countries have to stop treating US support for Nato as an “excuse to … spend on domestic needs”.
Speaking on the war in Ukraine, which Trump had vowed to end within 24 hours of taking office, Rubio said that there was “no way Russia takes all of Ukraine” – but also that Ukraine would not be able to retake all its sovereign territory held by Russia.
In order to reach a peace deal, Rubio continued, “there will have to be concessions made by the Russian Federation, but also by the Ukrainians and the United States.”
US sanctions on Russia may also enter the discussion, Rubio said, noting that they gave Washington “leverage” over Russia and that they would “have to be part of this conversation in terms of bringing about a … resolution”.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: rubio; russia; ukraine
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To: marcusmaximus
Sounds like agreement with stated Vlad’s objectives from day one, he keeps his ethnic Russian provinces and of course Crimea….the next part? No NATO for St. Z, and then somehow purge Ukraine of their Neo-Nazis….
Sounds good to me.
2 posted on 01/15/2025 10:22:58 AM PST by delta7
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