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Peace negotiations are for suckers. The ratio of successful peace negotiations to unsuccessful ones is not great and the successful ones generally involve European countries that genuinely wanted to end the fighting. As I’ve said before, that’s not the case with the Russia-Ukraine war. And the J.D. Vance effort to advance an American-led end to the war quickly took on the hallmarks of past failed negotiations.
Neither side really wanted to end the war. Both sides just used the negotiations that we were pushing to maneuver for better positions. Rather than leading to a downturn in hostilities, hostilities actually increased.
Now President Trump and Secretary of State Rubio are signaling that the U.S. is ready to walk away.
U.S. President Donald Trump will walk away from trying to broker a Russia-Ukraine peace deal within days unless there are clear signs that a deal can be done, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Friday.
“We’re not going to continue with this endeavour for weeks and months on end. So we need to determine very quickly now, and I’m talking about a matter of days whether or not this is doable in the next few weeks,” Rubio said in Paris after meeting European and Ukrainian leaders.
“The president feels very strongly about that. He has dedicated a lot of time and energy to this … this is important, but there are a lot of other really important things going on that deserves just as much, if not more attention.”
Rubio said the issue of U.S. security guarantees as part of any deal came up in the talks in Paris, without going into greater detail.
He said security guarantees was an issue “we can fix in sort of in a way that’s acceptable to everyone,” but “we have bigger challenges that we need to figure out, whether it’s even possible within the short term”.
The better option all along was to just walk away. If Europe wants to take ownership of this war, great.
We’ve invested enough time and money into this. And pushing peace negotiations backed by security guarantees gets us deeper into the war, not out of it.
The Trump administration should be willing to cut Gordian Knots and end the old policy of trying to internationalize and negotiate local conflicts. It isn’t working in Ukraine, in Gaza or anywhere else.
Steven Witkoff needs to go back to playing golf in Florida and negotiating real estate deals, and the Trump administration should focus on our national interests, not playing a 99 cent store United Nations.
We were sold on the idea that the Russia-Ukraine war was WWIII both by supporters and opponents of it. It’s not. It’s WWI with drones driven by ethnic hostilities and local territorial claims. We can move on from it.
Anyone who wants more U.S. involvement, either through negotiations or hostilities, is not advancing an America First foreign policy.
Let them fight.
Yes, but unfortunately Trump spewed a lot of bluster and bravado early on with respect to this war, so now looks like a failure. Less promises and cockiness would help. Just do. Succeed. Then strud if one must. (He did the same with his week-end “or else!” warnings to Hamas only to have no follow through making Hamas appear in the driving seat.)
Backstreet drivers that know not much at all about so many things are such a pleasure.
I like Trump and everything he’s down thus far but sometimes he gets a little too full of himself. He needs to put that habit in check and just STFU once in a while and keep his opinions to himself or one of these days, his mouth is going to write a check his ass can’t cash.
Yeah, get disentangled. That’s my philosophy. I notice that now when reading history, the hidden theme: all these big shots seeking empire just got entangled in worse and worse problems, which often led to disaster and their downfall.
Mr. Zelenskiy only wants a peace deal that includes return of all Ukariain’s land before 2014, reparations paid by Russia, prosecution of Russians who were part of the invasion.
Starmer and Macron want the war to continue for reasons I cannot fathom.
Putin is not ready for peace until all his SMO goals are reached.
It seems Mr. Trump is the only voice for peace and no one is listening.
No sense banging your head against the wall, Mr. Trump; just walk away and leave it to Russia and the Europeans to work out.
Don’t negotiate with those Russia/Ukraine Vultures let them solve their own Problems America has more Important Domestic problems to solve. HOME FRONT FIRST
But then the US should leave Nato as well, because otherwise the EU would first make a mess of this war and then try to involve Nato (read: the US) by staging some ‘incident’.
Europe without US involvement however means leaving her to EUthazi’s, who will hurry to make a strategic alliance with islamists. They are already intensifying their efforts to make Turkey a member of the EU..
Walk away. No more money, or military support. The EU wants war let them send military aid and money. More unnecessary death but the powers that be don’t want a negotiated settlement so let them have it. No one yet has given me a satisfactory explanation as to why the US got involved in the first place and how any of the last four years has served any legitimate American interest and what the final result would be or look like.
Here’s a succinct “satisfactory explanation”: M-O-N-E-Y. If you’re a munitions and weapons systems manufacturer, war is very good for business. If you’re a politician, war is very good for your investment portfolio. Especially when you have access to information that’s unavailable to the general public.
Any other explanation is just sophistry and bullsh*t.
From what I’ve read, the reason that Trump wanted to end this war was so he could then focus on our real enemy, China.
Though, from what I’ve learned about them is that they are now too weak to actually invade Taiwan, but still, they have plenty of need to saber-rattle so as to justify food rationing, and the like, inside the mainland, it has gotten so bad.
The most that will happen, one Chinese-American YouTuber says, that perhaps the Chinese will attack those Taiwanese owned islands nestled in close to the mainland, so as to try and unite the country.
We’ll see.
It’ll be interesting to see what Trump has planned. Now, he is one person “who can see what can be, unburdened by what has been”, as they say. Or, “think outside the box”, as normal people would put it.
China is in worse shape than the western media admits. There are several non-government sanctioned podcasts inside China and countries outside of China that are reporting that China’s economy is steadily collapsing and Chinese youth are rebelling against communism. Those are just a few of the issues that are plaguing China that most Americans never hear about from the MSM. For example:
https://www.youtube.com/@ChinaObserver0
https://www.youtube.com/@TheChinaShow
https://www.youtube.com/@ChinaUndercover
Just end our MONEY and let the EU take up the slack! We have issues of our OWN that should take precedent! If there are any Ukrainian ILLEGALS then they should go home and help their OWN Nation! Should Starlink still be available? that’s a private Company, but also a National Security situation! Just ANOTHER fine mess created by the segment of excrement oblama and engorged by the biden bunglers!