© Nathan Posner/Getty ImagesMarco Rubio speaks to the press following a unanimous confirmation vote to be Secretary of State in the US Senate • Washington, DC
In an interview on Sirius XM's The Megyn Kelly Show on Thursday, Rubio reiterated US President Donald Trump's willingness to find a diplomatic solution to the Ukraine crisis, saying:
"Trump believes the conflict needs to end now. It needs to end to a negotiation. In any negotiation, both sides are going to have to give something up. Even a growing number Democrats who vowed to support Kiev for 'as long as it takes' under Joe Biden would now acknowledge that what we have been funding is a stalemate, a protracted conflict, and maybe even worse than a stalemate, one in which incrementally Ukraine is being destroyed and losing more and more territory.After his inauguration last week, Trump said he was ready to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin "anytime" to find a diplomatic solution to the Ukraine conflict. The Kremlin replied by saying that Putin is also willing to talk to his US counterpart, but stressed that Moscow has not yet been approached by Washington about organizing contacts between the two leaders.
"What the dishonesty that has existed is that we somehow led people to believe that Ukraine would be able not just to defeat Russia, but, you know, destroy them, push them all the way back to what the world looked like in...2014.
"As a result of the conflict, Ukraine is being set back a hundred years. Their energy grid is being wiped out... And you know how many Ukrainians have left Ukraine, living in other countries now? They may never return. I mean, that is their future, and it is endangered in that regard."
The Russian president said earlier this week that there is "a very simple way" for the US and other "sponsors" of Kiev to achieve peace by ending funding for Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky's government.
Putin stated:
"They will not last a month if the money and, in a broader sense, the ammunition, runs out. That's it. It will all end in a month, a month and a half, or two."
Reader Comments
In my view, it is necessary to dismantle the globalist power structure. In the Ukraine, this power structure has set up bioweapon laboratories, child sex trafficking, organ harvesting, drug manufacture and trafficking, weapons trafficking, and money laundering. The Ukraine has been a hub of the corruption in the EU. This explains why the globalist power structure have double downed on supporting the Ukraine; when it falls they fall. Goodbye EU and NATO.
From that perspective, Putin needs to stand firm on his requirements for peace. And further, there needs to be an elimination of all the bioweapons, child sex trafficking, organ harvesting, money laundering, drug manufacture and trafficking in the Ukraine. Otherwise, it will simply go underground and continue to destabilize other countries.
It is hard to believe he still believes the self-feeding neocon narrative BS he recently spouted - like the Russians lost a million men, dragged North Koreans onto the battle field, and are on the brink of economic collapse. It hink he knows better, and has a silent agreement with the Russian side to let them do their thing with Kiev, while he is busy with more important issues.
And the zionist China hawk Rubio going "soft" on this issue supposes he is playing his part here. And, notice how quiet Gen. Kellogg, Trumps's envoy to Moscow, got lately ?!?
The narrative now has confusing elements because the Trump team is active in working with it; in other words more that one player involved.
But as usual in the West, official announcements are merely public perception management, not facts.
This is just a neutral statement, not judging intentions of motives here ...