Posted on 04/13/2025 1:33:38 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday responded to the Russia’s attack on the city of Sumy, expressing condolences to the victims of the assault, he posted this on the social network X, APA reports citing Ukrinform.
“The United States extends our deepest condolences to the victims of today’s horrifying Russian missile attack on Sumy,” Rubio wrote.
The U.S. Secretary of State added that today’s strike serves as a “tragic reminder” of why President Donald Trump and his administration “are putting so much time and effort into trying to end this war and achieve durable peace.”
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We have sufficient leverage over only one party in this war...to compel a peace.
If that is the US goal, to immediately compel a full ceasefire, then we have the leverage to do so.
But I think the administration holds that goal and is, for whatever reason, dissuaded from using the leverage we have.
And we have very, very little leverage over Russia as will be clear to everyone shortly.
Ok Ivan.
Putin only has one week left to agree to President Trump’s Easter ceasefire.
“The U.S. Secretary of State added that today’s strike serves as a “tragic reminder” of why President Donald Trump and his administration “are putting so much time and effort into trying to end this war and achieve durable peace.”
That is exactly what Trump has said all along. “2500 soldiers, both Russian and Uke, are being killed every week”. This is an example of it. Those 30 or 50 Uke troops at that military awards ceremony would be alive now if not for the DC MIC warmongers and the Euro warmongers keeping this madness going.
Marcus and you, like the Jap soldiers stumbling out of the jungle in 1949, asking if we won yet. Great comedy!
When President Trump told Putin the ceasefire deadline is Easter, he meant it.
Yes we do. Make oil super cheap again. We need to get it under $40 per barrel. That is probably the next step here since the ceasefire is not happening.
You just don’t like being called out.
How is the goal of 30,000 men per month recruiting plan going ?
You too can be one of the combatants, enlist today !
Putin and his 21% interest rates and collapsing oil prices desperately begging Witkoff for sanctions relief on Friday didn’t work. President Trump is going to take Putin to the woodshed next week.
Hey Marco — Pot meet kettle.
According to the Signalgate texts, we bombed a whole apartment building to kill one Houthi, called “their top missile guy”. He went into his girlfriend’s apartment building and kaboom. When Waltz reported the apartment building “collapsed” they were cheering and posting emojis.
Russia strikes a large gathering of Ukrainian military for an awards ceremony and civilians are killed and injured as collateral damage.
Ukraine hits civilian targets on purpose, and that’s just dandy.
Enough of this disgusting hypocrisy.
How are the efforts to send 30,000 men to certain death ?
Zman counts his loot that Pedo Joe Biden paid him with.
Zman may get what he deserves, all it takes is one Ukrainian patriot and that filthy money grubbing parasite will be history.
Mariner is correct based on reality. But zeepers can not face reality.
That takes many moons to accomplish. Infrastructure to extract oil is not available at fast shopping convenient stores.
“Yes we do. Make oil super cheap again. We need to get it under $40 per barrel. “
US producers require $50/bbl to keep pumping and $65/bbl to drill/explore/open new wells.
No leverage there.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Remember “all hell breaking loose if the Israeli hostages weren’t released by Saturday”? You don’t know a thing about how Trump does deals.
Are you trying to say the day after Easter, Trump will start sending troops and or tens of billions of weapons to the Ukes?!?. That’s just silly. Trump and Russia are on the cusp of mediating an Iranian deal. Trump isn’t foolish enough to allow Sniffles Z to control Trump’s rapprochement with Russia. Z has broken the energy “ceasefire” EVERY day since the Russians began complying three weeks ago. There can be no ceasefire with Sniffy the Clown still around. Putin will not agree to a general ceasefire without all terms of Istanbul Plus being implemented. Check with Steve Witkoff. Take a look at the video of Witkoff with his bud, Vlad in St. Petersburg two days ago. Oh yeah, it really looked like Trump was going to jump back into Project Uke in eight days.
That looks like a pretty tame quote from Rubio, but then, it had to be vetted at the WH.
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