Rubio: Trump is frustrated by his fruitless talks with Putin and is losing patience

APA ^ | 7/28/2024 | Staff

[marcusmaximus]

US President Donald Trump is still interested in resolving the conflict in Ukraine and wants to see concrete actions to end it, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in an interview with the Fox News channel, APA reports.

“This is not his war, but he wants it to end“, the head of the foreign policy department said.

According to Rubio, Trump is frustrated that “his good interaction and phone calls with Vladimir Putin are not leading to anything“. “It is time to take action and the president has made it very clear. "He's losing patience," the secretary of state added.

[kiryandil]

A disaster for your 30th Motorized Rifle Regimen 2 days ago. All dead. Every one of them.

“President Trump wasn’t joking about his Easter deadline to Putin.” - clownusmaximus

[marcusmaximus]

The 155mm cluster shells being sent by the U.S. have been the icing on the cake in decimating Putin’s Sumy offensive. Along with the HIMARS that wiped out Putin’s entire Sumy offensive command leadership a few weeks ago. All HIMARS strikes have to be pre approved by the U.S.

[kiryandil]

President Trump and Secretary Rubio just said Putin is the impediment to peace. Pay attention.

Tell your momz to tell you to tell Tucker to tell The Putin to tell Melania to tell Trump to tell Khamenei to tell Netanyahu to tell Macron to tell Starmer to tell Kaja Kallas to tell Friedrich Merz to tell Lukashenko to tell Ursula von der Leyen to tell Little Zelya to surrender.

[marcusmaximus]

Sumy in 3 days!

[kiryandil]

Sumy in 3 days!

Belgorod in 3 day

LOL!

Zelya the Piano Clown claims that there are still some dumb Ukies on pre-2014 Russian soil. What an effing bimbo!

[jimwatx]

No he’s been backsliding on this. Putin has proposed Russia more or less retain control of most of the areas it now occupies (where the majority of those living in these areas accept this) and guarantees that Ukraine not be brought into NATO which Russia views as a national security threat.

So what’s the problem with that? It’s not the business of the US to retake these territories for Ukraine nor to pay for this. Make Zelensky hold elections so the will of the people can be expressed. Seeing as to how there’s no more volunteers for this war and Zelensky is reduced to kidnapping people off the streets I think we can surmise that the majority of Ukrainians just want this thing to end. It’s only the deep state in both the US and Europe who want this to continue.

[marcusmaximus]

QUESTION: Let me ask you about Russia. The President gave Russia 50 days to strike a peace deal or face, possibly, 100 percent tariffs. Where do you think Putin is on this? Do you think this is an effective strategy, and what do you expect to see happen?

SECRETARY RUBIO: Well, first of all, I think everybody should be very happy that the American president, the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, is focused on peace. There’s nothing he wants more than to be a part of peace agreements, stopping wars, preventing wars, ending wars. It’s not his war. He didn’t start this war. It didn’t happen – it never would have happened – had he been president, but it did. He inherits it, and he’s done everything possible to bring it to an end. I think he’s growing increasingly frustrated that, despite having very good interactions with Vladimir Putin in phone calls, it never leads to anything. So the time has come for some action here, and I think the President has made that abundantly clear. He’s losing his patience. He’s losing his willingness to continue to wait for the Russian side to do something here to bring an end to this – to this war that wasn’t his war, but he wants to see it come to an end.

Since January of this year, over 100,000 Russian soldiers – just on the Russian side – have been killed. It’s a bloody conflict with a lot of death and destruction. A lot of this engagement has been really about playing for time and sort of delay tactics to make it look like they’re interested in peace but not really serious about it.

He’s not going to fall into that trap of being pulled into endless talks about talks. And I think he picks up a lot of that from his just understanding of human nature and human behavior, having dealt with some of the most cutthroat people in business for 40, 50 years.

QUESTION: Well, so many people talk about the fact that China is conspiring with Russia and Iran. How does the U.S. deal with that and a potential alliance between those three?

SECRETARY RUBIO: Everybody knows – it’s not a secret – that China is giving Russia as much aid as they can get away with without being discovered. The Europeans have caught onto this. There is no way that Putin could have sustained this war without Chinese support, particularly buying his oil. And I think the Chinese have an incentive to see this war go on. They think that the longer this war goes on, it’ll distract us and prevent us from focusing on other parts of the world that they’re interested in.

With Iran, the Chinese also buy a lot of their sanctioned oil and have provided them some defense articles in the past. I think everyone – China, Russia, others, even North Korea – have become a little bit more cautious about supporting Iran, especially after our B-2s flew halfway around the world and conducted an operation and left before anyone found out about it.

So I think that what’s happened now is a lot of these countries are being – in the middle of that war, when Iran turned to Russia, turned to China, turned to some of their proxies, they all kind of took a pass and said we don’t want to get involved in this thing. It sort of reminded the world that we have a strong President and the most extraordinary military capabilities in the world. No one has the things we have in our defense, whether it’s our airplanes, our missiles, our bombs that we use, and our guided munitions. A lot of people had forgotten that. President Trump reminded them.

https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/07/secretary-of-state-marco-rubio-with-lara-trump-of-fox-news/

[dforest]

Yeah, Trump is so frustrated that he is golfing in Scotland(doing quite well on the course it seems) while waiting for Ukes to throw out the little cokehead green booger for corruption and sending them to their deaths.

[desertsolitaire]

I wonder if her parents saw it as a deserved “honor killing” by the State or if they were are still mad at Putin about it? It has been 3 years or more.

[marcusmaximus]

How do you kill an offensive by sending reinforcements? Ask Russia’s smoking bike riders.

Russian commanders tried to recapture Andriivka, a frontline village Kyiv had just retaken on the Sumy front in Ukraine’s northeast.

The plot twist? They didn’t know the village was already fully under Kyiv’s control, sending waves of reinforcements to “rescue” forces that no longer existed — and turning relief missions into killing grounds littered with burning bikes.

But Ukraine’s plan went even deeper. As Russia bled units dry in futile rescue attempts, Ukrainian troops prepared coordinated strikes on nearby Kindrativka — a border village critical to Moscow’s plan to get fire control over Sumy, a regional capital just 40 km (25 miles) from the Russian border.

With Russian reserves positioned too far away to avoid enemy drones, Ukrainian forces unleashed HIMARS, drones, and AASM Hammer bombs before launching a swift assault that captured Kindrativka within hours.

https://x.com/EuromaidanPress/status/1949453986894877023

[desertsolitaire]

We keep hearing that Putin will keep going forever in his invasion war, no matter what. But we don’t hear much about him running out of time and getting replaced from within for his Ahab style, White Whale pursuit of victory in Ukraine, whatever that looks like to him.

[jimwatx]

Blah blah blah who cares what deep state neocon Rubio has to say? Trump said during the campaign he would end this war in 24 hours. I don’t think anybody expected things to be resolved in 24 hours, but neither did we expect to continue to send vast sums of money and military equipment over there. Seems the neocon deep state has gotten to Trump and he’s now slowly backsliding on what he said during the campaign.

[hoosierham]

Putin launched the war.
It wasn’t necessary.
Put in took advantage of weak Democrat non-leadership.

[marcusmaximus]

President Trump never campaigned on appeasing Putin.

[jimwatx]

He campaigned on ending the war. What exactly is the sticking point that has prevented him from doing so?

[McGruff]

Blah...blah...blah. Rubio has been saying the same thing for 6 months.

When are we going to start bombing Moscow?

[marcusmaximus]

The Commander of Ukrainian Unmanned System Forces, Magyar, posted a photo on his Telegram channel with the commanders of five units from the Drone Line.

Direct quote:

Worms, it’s time to get moist.
Every fourth Yoblyk and one in three confirmed enemy targets this summer were taken out by the Cossacks of the Drone Line – part of the newly formed Unmanned Systems Task Force.

Commanders: Zemliak (“Phoenix”), Kyrylo Kyrylovych (“K-2”), KLIMA (“Magyar’s Birds”), Khasan (“Raroh”), Achilles (“Achilles”).

Briefing. Debrief. Planning.

Pigdogs, we saw your little stunt yesterday, trying to poke all of us at once. Nice try. Go suck your bambuchello.

Every second worm – get your ******** ready for autumn. Just the way you like it, rat*****rs.

Eyes and the Sting – a worm’s worst nightmare.

https://x.com/414magyarbirds/status/1949220602541146190

[whitney69]

You can lead a horse to water...

wy69

[nathanbedford]

It is impossible to read the few lines that comprise this news story and come to any rational conclusion about what exactly is Donald Trump's policy concerning the war in Ukraine.

Beyond stating that the president "wanted it to end," what exactly is he doing to make it end? Our Secretary of State cites, “his good interaction and phone calls with Vladimir Putin…" But admits, [the phone calls] are "not leading to anything."

It is likewise impossible to infer a foreign policy by Trump for Ukraine as it might have existed before these phone calls. On the one hand, he had made clear his opposition to foreign wars and specifically for the war in Ukraine. On the other hand, in an official act as President United States he was the first president to supply Ukraine with arms with which to repel the Russian invasion, and later bragged that he had done so. So he was for defending Ukraine while he was against it. A unique and incomprehensible foreign policy.

Nor can one divine a foreign policy about the war in Ukraine from these phone calls. Let us consider these calls; the president, evidently without securing authorization from his ally (yes, ally at the time and evidently ally once again), Ukraine, unilaterally undertook to negotiate on Ukraine's behalf, ( as well as his own), with Putin. All that emerge from that call was a list of a negotiable demands from Putin from which Trump did not budge Putin nor, evidently, did he try to move Putin off his demands. Instead, the president made it clear that Ukraine must comply with Putin's demands. What can we say at this point about the foreign policy of the United States? That Ukraine must surrender or we abandon them?

That's the foreign policy, what can we say about the negotiating policy of the United States concerning the war in Ukraine? Donald Trump made it clear before taking office for a second time that the United States had no or only a very limited national interest in the sovereignty of Ukraine. If he had such a concern, he might have begun the moment he took office to move heaven and earth to gear up the production of armaments to send to Ukraine to fortify the negotiating position of an ally that had been illegally invaded.

More, that ally had taken positions that invited the invasion at the behest of the government of the United States. Then, the United States, through its representatives, scuttled a peace plan that might have ended the war in a way that provided for the survival of Ukraine.

By statements of the President of the United States, acts of Congress and statements made by elected representatives of both parties, by a laws passed by Congress and signed by the president, by grants-in-aid, by training Ukrainian troops, by supplying weapons, by providing satellite and other means of intelligence, by enlisting our allies in NATO to join in supporting Ukraine, by imposing sanctions on Russia, by imposing sanctions on those who traded with Russia, by receiving Zelinski and almost unanimously endorsing his address to a joint session of Congress, the United States had made an ally of Ukraine in a war we had inveigled Ukraine to wage.

All of these commitments were done in accordance with the United States Constitution. They were thus inherited by Donald Trump upon his ascension to office a second time. At that moment, a man adept in the Art of the Deal might have increased his negotiating clout by moving heaven and earth at the Department of Defense and among our multibillion dollar arms industries to gear up to provide Ukraine with arms to match our promises. But Trump did nothing.

Instead Trump ambushed Zelinski in the Oval Office and humiliated him on international television. He told Zelinski and the world that Zelinski could not win, you "have no cards." At this moment the only discernible foreign policy of the United States apparently is, Ukraine must surrender or else.

But Ukraine was too brave to surrender, to put themselves under the boot of Russia. Unable or incapable of moving Putin, Trump then discovered that his power over Ukraine was more potent. Trump literally threw Zelinski out the White House and proceeded for a time to withdraw Biden provided arms and intelligence, vital to the survival of Ukraine. Thus, the man who had bragged about being the first to supply Ukraine with arms became the first president to withhold arms, all in the wake of failed, if inverted, negotiating attempts.

If the humiliation of Zelinski and the betrayal of Ukraine did not cause them to surrender, Trump's pause in supplying matériel and intelligence evidently caused Ukraine to sign on to Trump's mineral extraction deal, which apparently restored a limited flow of arms in exchange for mineral rights in Ukraine, but not in exchange for any security guarantee of Ukraine's sovereignty. One can only imagine the reaction of our European NATO allies and partners who supported Ukraine at this series of events. One can only imagine the shock of our allies in the Pacific rim whom we will need to confront China as they ponder whether they will have a reliable ally and partner in the United States, or do they suspect they will be treated by Trump the way he has served Ukraine?

The president blandly announced that Ukraine was "not his war" and moved on to other matters. At this point one might consider the foreign policy of the United States to be not so benign neglect. Not his war? The one in which he had supplied arms, undertook negotiations, sided with one side over the other, imposed sanctions on Russia and traders with Russia, signed a minerals deal, and then washed his hands of the damage he had done, leaving Ukraine vulnerable. Not his war, indeed.

But Ukraine actually had cards to play, they pioneered the art of making war with drones and fought the Russians to a standstill trading space for lives and inflicting massive casualties on advancing Russians who gained little at terrible cost. Once again Donald Trump injected himself into the fray and conducted a telephone call with Vladimir Putin which was clearly acrimonious. Donald Trump expressed himself personally exasperated with Putin. This is an odd way to conduct foreign policy or conduct negotiations. In the wake of that phone call Trump agreed to a plan of supplying weapons to Ukraine if paid for by our European allies and threaten Russia with severe sanctions if a cease-fire is not agreed to within 60 days. Has Trump's foreign policy now come full circle? Is the President who was the first to supply arms to Ukraine, the first to withhold arms, now the first to resume arms to Ukraine?

When Trump embarked on this new policy, it appeared to observers with access only to public information that Ukraine was secure in the short and medium-term at least because it was inflicting so many casualties on Russia. Over time, the Russians have compensated for their corruption and ineptness and have slowly developed massive forces. The Ukraine war now appears to be a grind to see which side first runs out of assets and allies.

At this point is reasonable to ask, why have we not put the massive potential of the United States defense industrial complex to work for the last six months to provide those arms that would ensure the survival of Ukraine and, certainly, equalize their negotiating position with Russia?

Instead, we have conducted a foreign policy that is not only incoherent, it is a mishmash of flip-flops and bellicosity. It has weakened our ally and favored Russia. It has dismayed our allies in Europe and frightened our allies in the Pacific. It has unwisely extended a ultimatum over 60 days that permits Russia to set up ways to evade the effects of the sanctions. It does not articulate any understandable new policy. The President, "losing patience," is not foreign policy.

[marcusmaximus]

Bessent says U.S. to prod China to pause Russia, Iran oil purchases

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Thursday that his delegation will stress the importance of China pausing its purchases of Russian and Iranian oil in a meeting with Chinese officials next week in Sweden.

https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/bessent-says-u-s-to-prod-china-to-pause-russia-iran-oil-purchases/ar-AA1Jf8lS