Posted on 05/15/2025 11:05:17 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Thursday the only way a breakthrough will happen in the efforts to end Russia's war in Ukraine would be through direct talks between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, after Moscow sent a second-tier team to talks in Turkey.
Rubio, who spoke to reporters in Antalya, said he would travel to Istanbul for meetings on Friday with Turkey's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and a Ukrainian delegation, but said he did not have high expectations for the talks.
"I don't think we're going to have a breakthrough here until the president (Trump) and President Putin interact directly on this topic," Rubio said, echoing earlier comments from Trump.
The top U.S. diplomat described the current state of the talks to end the war as a "logjam," and said Trump was the only person who can break it.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy had traveled to Turkey after Putin proposed talks there, before the Russian president decided against traveling to the talks himself.
Putin instead dispatched a second-tier team of aides and deputy ministers to Istanbul.
Rubio said the level of the officials sent by Russia was not indicative of a breakthrough, but said Trump was willing to stick with talks as long as it takes to achieve peace.
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WALK AWAY
That whole scene is indicative of cocaine use. The nose rubbing, the sniffing right after and then the rolling of the numb tongue. He did a line in the limo ride over and probably rubbed some on his gums. That boy was high as a kite.
Both Nations of Slavs continue to babies and ignore the US. Let them rot.
🚨PRES. TRUMP: “Nothing’s going to happen until Putin & I get together, OK?”
“I don’t believe anything’s gonna happen, whether you like it or not, until he & I get together.”
To: MotorCityBuck
There will be peace talks in Istanbul on the 15th.
12 posted on 5/11/2025, 8:08:34 AM by marcusmaximus
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4316295/posts?page=12#12
That’s the solution, walk away. This won’t help mid-term elections if we don’t.
“Putin’s War”
London/Washington’s War
Great Patriotic DC war
I get the feeling this is all being orchestrated and everyone is just following the script.
It’s strange, isn’t it?
“I get the feeling this is all being orchestrated and everyone is just following the script.”
True for the Neocon side, Russia was simply acting as a responsible country by sending in a very high-level delegation. As to Trump, who knows...
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