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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.)
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..