Caveat: This report comes from mainstream news, and could include false reporting.
Secretary Rubio took out two provisions in the Ukraine-Russia peace deal. The provisions were the two that Russia cared most about. They are going to reject the deal.
The Russian Wish List?
Lawmakers critical of President Donald Trump’s approach to ending the Russia-Ukraine war said Saturday they spoke with Secretary of State Marco Rubio who told them that the Trump peace plan is a “wish list” of the Russians and not the actual proposal offering Washington’s positions.
A State Department spokesperson denied their account, calling it “blatantly false.”
Rubio himself then took the extraordinary step of suggesting online that the senators were mistaken. They then said he was their source for the information. Rubio followed up by saying DC came up with the proposal.
The Changes to the Peace Plan
Red lines for Russia in the negotiations include the move reported earlier by The Washington Post to, for now, put aside Moscow’s demand that Ukraine withdraw from territory in the eastern Donbas region that Russia has not yet conquered. Russia would also reject the call for Ukraine’s NATO aspirations to be decided based on NATO’s rules that would nix the outright veto on membership from the earlier draft.
By Sunday night, Mr. Rubio took back control of the negotiations, the NY Times reported.
He excised sections that would forever bar Ukraine from joining NATO and that banned NATO member states from forming a security force inside Ukraine that would deter Russia from launching a new invasion.
Mr. Rubio explained that items involving Europe and NATO are part of a separate track and involves input from them.
Rubio also removed the section ceding 15% of Donbas to Russia.
Obviously, no one would expect the Russians to accept this deal. The 15% of territory they don’t have will soon be lost as they march through Ukraine. As for NATO, that’s one of the reasons for the invasion in the first place.
These provisions are the two Russia felt were non-negotiable.
The Times then said Russia has shown no signs of engaging in a cease-fire. However, Russia has been clear that they would not cease fire unless there was a deal.
Putin can’t be trusted.
Anyone paying attention knew this wasn’t going anywhere. Who can trust Trump?
More people do than trust the media or the radical elements of the Democrat party.
He’s just another mental case from the left.
You’re a brainwashed leftist idiot so, what else is new ??
glory hole slave of Rev 3:9 continuing the christian slav genocide at the behest of his masters…only fools are surprised
Trump is a big picture dealer, and wants to take back Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela from foreign influence (return to Monroe Doctrine). That’s a great idea, to leave Ukraine for the EU to deal with. They wanted Ukraine for themselves to compete in global trade (against us) better. So let them employ their unemployed masses and go fight for it.… Read more »
miga fake maga trump works for the same masters….if conservatives would beat his azz to keep his word, he might actually do some good, but as it is, they bark like trained seals as he betrays the usa and all of christendom
Rubio is another RINO neocon. We knew he was bad the moment he entered congress, when he reversed himself and supported the mass amnesty bill. Rubio gets high praise in conservative circles, for doing nothing. All he does is travel around and get in front of cameras to campaign for president. Trump has others making deals on foreign policy, not… Read more »
The US is the only entity protracting this war. Without the US help, it would have ended long ago.
but how else can the world governments launder their taxpayers money to enrich the leaders?
Did anyone ever ask what the people wanted? Not that maniac Zelensky and his ilk.
Actually, yes. As population maps will show, the territories Russia is taking are mostly populated by Russians. That is a fact. I assume the reason so many Russians would be living in Ukraine is a consequence of an arbitrary boundary drawn up after the fall of the Soviet Union that left these people separated from their motherland. I read that… Read more »
“The provoking of the war was Ukraine’s doomed demand to join NATO, putting enemy troops, tanks, and missiles on Russia’s borders. That was, naturally, too great a national security risk, and the forces that provoked the war had to know it.” Anyone stating that must acknowledge that if true, the russians made a HUGE mistake (4+ years of death and… Read more »