Posted on 05/13/2025 2:33:00 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
President Trump said Tuesday that Secretary of State Marco Rubio will represent him at Russia-Ukraine peace talks expected to take place Thursday in Istanbul — after suggesting he might go himself to try to end Europe’s bloodiest conflict since World War II.
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“Talks are being held in Turkey later this week — probably on Thursday, and they could produce some pretty good results. Our people are going to be going there, Marco is going to be going there, others are going to be going, and we’ll see if we can get it done,” Trump said.
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Rubio will put little Vlad in his place if required.
Putin feeling the heat from his oligarchs to end the war. And from President Trump dropping sanctions on Syria.
Keep on making stuff up in your head. Fantasy is fun!
Oligarchs want sanctions dropped on Russia, just like Syria. It’s obvious that President Trump is working the oligarchs angle back channel.
In your mind. Congratulations on your very active imagination and mind reading abilities!
“President Trump wasn’t joking about his Easter deadline to Putin.” - clownusmaximus
“I will gladly predict what will happen on Thursday for a hamburger today” - wimpymaximus
So much for that peace agreement, move on to keeping up with the action along the front, it gets more interesting all the time.
This is because the crazy Zman made a big noise that sounded like he was ordering Trump to be there.
Rubio going rather than Trump just made it okay for Russia to send foreign ministry people for the conventional right and proper negotiations. The Ukraine foreign ministry should also be there.
Pretty much that’s it. No reason for Europe to have a presence.
“Rubio will put Vlad inn his place if required.”
Don’t think so. Even though on the neocon side, he has nothing to play.
“ It’s obvious that President Trump is working the oligarchs angle back channel.”
They are the businessmen who control Russias economy.
President Trump is doing what he needs to do to move the process forward. It really is something for the foreign ministers, special negotiators and economic advisors, etc. to hash out. This meeting on Thursday never would have happened without President Trump’s pressure on Putin.
Overall this is a mistake.
Sending Rubio makes the meeting a foreign ministry meeting. Probably Lavrov. Putin and Zelensky won’t be there since it is a foreign ministry/state dept “technical” meeting.
Rubio downshifts attendance. No PR triumphs from technical meetings.
President Trump is using both Putin and Zelensky quite masterfully. Who would have thunk a few days ago there would be direct talks between Russia and Ukraine in Turkey on Thursday?
The point being, everything about a Monday deadline is now forgotten. No one will expect Putin to be there, nor Zelensky.
Rubio steals a media splash of who showed up and who didn’t.
Putin told President Trump today that the foreign ministers work out the deal and then he and Zelensky will meet to sign the deal when the deal is done.
You misspelled it. It's little Volod.
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