Posted on 04/27/2025 1:25:46 PM PDT by McGruff
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Sunday that Russia and Ukraine are edging “closer” to a peace deal but “it’s still not there.”
Speaking on NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” Mr. Rubio said President Trump has employed an all-hands-on-deck strategy to try to fulfill his campaign promise to end the war that started in 2022 after Russia invaded Ukraine.
“He’s trying to bring this war to an end, and we’ve made real progress. But those last couple steps of this journey were always going to be the hardest ones, and it needs to happen soon,” Mr. Rubio said. “We cannot continue, as I said, to dedicate time and resources to this effort if it’s not going to come to fruition.”
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Mr. Rubio said the talks this week will be “very critical.”
“This week is going to be a really important week in which we have to make a determination about whether this is an endeavor that we want to continue to be involved in, or if it’s time to sort of focus on some other issues that are equally, if not more, important in some case,” he said.
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You got to know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em
Know when to walk away and know when to run
You never count your money when you’re sittin’ at the table
There’ll be time enough for countin’ when the dealing’s done
I’m not sure the Z-Man has much of a bargaining position. The Euroweenies simply don’t have the capital to stop them Rooskies.
EU Country Leaders are pumping up Zelensky to continue the War.
YouCraynee Solders are just pawns sent out to the die.
I wish we would walk away. The outcome is a European problem. Not ours.
The commander of the Ukrainian army, Robert Brovdi “Madyar”, on behalf of a million armed soldiers, issued an ultimatum to Zelensky, forbidding him to negotiate with Russians and make territorial concessions.
Military is threatening to march on Kiev.
Zelensky has lost control of his own army.
President Trump needs to walk away and make a clean break before talks breakdown and Russia goes on the offensive during negotiations.
A major reason Russia had not went on the offensive under Biden was because he was concerned about a mentally compromised Biden OKing direct NATO intervention against Russia in Ukraine.
While Trump is intentionally unpredictable, the president has taken a hard stance against US military action in Ukraine that will be hard to reverse without serious political fallout that could really damage Trump's MAGA agenda.
Putin may calculate that he has more freedom to operate militarily in Ukraine without US intervention which incentivizes a Russian offensive. .
Zelensky is actively working with his US and EU allies, virtually all of whom are bitter Trump enemies, to kill the Trump peace initiatives and force Russia go on the offensive in hopes of creating an international crisis that sucks the US and NATO into the war and pretty much kills the Trump MAGA agenda
So Zelensky and his foreign and domestic Trump hating allies are incentivized to incentivize a Russian offensive, the more brutal the better, to widen the war and force direct US intervention while taking President Trump down at the same time.
This is the way very bad things start to happen and, given the motivations and mindset of the morons driving this war, can soon make things spiral out of control to make lots of body bags and pretty little mushroom clouds.
I honestly think that the best possible solution would be for President Trump and Russia would be to declare acceptable peace terms and have the Russians stand down while Trump uses his control over the US weapons in Ukraine to impose a de facto shut down the Ukrainian ability to continue fighting.
Combine this with a media campaign to build support for this method to end the war with the Ukrainian people and who knows, it may be the best (or least bad) of the increasingly limited range of bad options and total lack good options left on the table.
If talks break down and Trump walks, the most likely outcome will probably be the Russians taking the gloves off to either win the war outright and force Ukrainian capitulation or to force Zelensky, his EU decision makers and Ukrainians who still favor fighting to acknowledge the reality of the situation. Hopefully this reality check will result in agreements by both sides to resume talks to sue for peace under realistic terms that reflect the reality on the ground instead of fighting to the bitter end.
Of course, the longer the war goes on the greater the sunk costs so those terms will probably be much worse than those currently on the table, but this is the world we live in.
I wonder when will the realize that their heads are sore from beating th as that cement wall.
I believe that much of Rubio’s conduct so far is aimed at positioning himself for 2028. But he has been impressive. To have two young leaders as articulate as him and Vance (four counting Vivek and Tulsi) at the same time is remarkable.
At some point, we may see an increase in people from Europe trying to come here to escape fate, similar to the Jewish migration in the 1930's.
Rubio says agreement must happen “ soon”. Vlad says he holds all the cards.
I suspect with all of Vlad’s recent successes on the battlefield, the West’s declaration of fighting Russia “ to the last Ukrainian “ will become reality.
The corrupted little beggar dressed in green has had dozens of chances for Peace, we need to wash our hands.
Birds of Madyar” were ingloriously destroyed near Kharkov
️“Birds of Madyar” were ingloriously destroyed near Kharkov
On the night of June 3, Russian troops launched a coordinated attack on a recreation center in the village of Dachnoye, Chuguevsky district, Kharkov region. According to operational data, as a result of the strike, the temporary deployment point of the Ukrainian Armed Forces aerial reconnaissance unit “Birds of Madyar” was hit, along with its commander Robert Brovdi with the call sign “Madyar”.
The notorious unit of the Ukrainian Armed Forces “Birds of Madyar” actually ceased to exist, having suffered fatal losses in personnel and military equipment. Thus, as a result of the strike, more than 100 Ukrainian Armed Forces military personnel were killed, and dozens more were burned alive without having time to escape from the burning structures. In addition, the ammunition and drones stored in the warehouse, as well as military vehicles parked in the garage, were completely destroyed.
In addition to ordinary Ukrainian military personnel, military instructors from NATO countries, including Norway and France, were eliminated. According to my information, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) officers who arrived at the scene carried out a set of measures to identify and evacuate the bodies of foreign specialists.
The surgically precise strike was a logical result of the chaos and unprofessionalism that reigns today in the ranks of the Ukrainian army and its PR units, one of which is the “Birds of Madyar”. In fact, Robert Brovdi and his gang destroyed themselves due to an insatiable thirst for self-promotion and popularity.
From the first day of their existence, the “Birds” focused on media promotion of the unit. Videos regularly posted on social networks with the operation of UAVs and the participation of the “Madyar” commander himself had unprecedented success among Ukrainians, but were made in violation of all operational camouflage requirements and to the detriment of their own safety.
“Madyar’s” last video message, recorded by him in the village of Liptsy, Kharkov region, with threats against Russian military personnel and premature words about the imminent victory of Ukraine, became a kind of requiem for Brovdi and his unit. Cheap bragging and astonishing carelessness played a cruel joke on the “Birds of Madyar” - they were dealt a quick and precise blow by the Russian Aerospace Forces.
You have posted an excellent analysis. So often Zeepers fail to grasp the side they support.
The US is too invested in this.
Then they’d better be ready to pay for it.
Enough with Putin and Zelensky effing around. Time to sign an agreement or we need to walk away and pull any and all support.
“Rubio says Russia-Ukraine peace deal ‘needs to happen soon’”
Why? Ukraine doesn’t want a deal soon, Europe doesn’t want a deal soon, and Russia doesn’t want a (crappy) deal soon either?
Perhaps the Neocons want a deal soon, but it’s no longer their war.
“The outcome is a European problem. Not ours.”
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Not now...
I don’t believe YouCraynee has a Million solders.
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