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Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Monday that Ukraine would have to make concessions over land that Russia had taken since 2014 as part of any agreement to end the war.

Mr. Rubio spoke as he was flying to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, for talks with senior Ukrainian officials, and 10 days after a contentious White House meeting between President Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky. The Trump administration halted military aid to Ukraine after the blowup, which centered on Mr. Trump’s refusal to include any security guarantees in a proposed deal involving Ukraine’s natural resources.

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[–] CobraChicken3000 20 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Without security guarantees, this isn't a "peace" deal, it's a capitulation and an invitation for future aggression from Russia.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

What about the security "guarantees" Ukraine already had?

I guess it's only a guarantee if it's guaranteed at least twice? Lol.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

I miss the good old ‘we don’t negotiate with terrorists’ US.

If someone breaks into your house, kicks your dog and rapes your wife, you don’t negotiate to let them keep your TV. You shoot that fucker between the eyes. That’s what we need to be doing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

I miss the good old ‘we don’t negotiate with terrorists’ US.

Pretty sure that was only a thing in movies.

We negotiate with terrorists all the time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

id probably just try to suck their dick or something

[–] CircaV 19 points 11 hours ago

I hope Ukraine doesn’t cede anything at all.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 hours ago

I don’t see any peace deal happening that doesn’t involve ceding territory.

That said if I were Zelenskyy I would tell the US to pound sand and find someone else to mediate a more favourable deal, maybe Türkiye.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago

Says the same guys who called Putin the victim while talking with Zelensky...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

Rubio is a snowflake bitch. As bad as Americans are right now, we're going to eat him in 2-3 years. Stay strong! Slava Ukraine!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

I don't see any peace deal unless there is security guarantees, it is not peace without guarantees.

This just embolden russia to rape Ukraine again for more lands. Marco Rubio is promoting a forever war.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Why do you put stock in security guarantees now?

Ukraine had security "guarantees" when Russia invaded because they gave up their nukes that Western nation have not followed through on.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Memorandum was not really a guarantee. NATO is more of a guarantee, nukes are more of a guarantee. Guarantee means NATO and/or Nukes.

[–] [email protected] 232 points 21 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 101 points 21 hours ago

Yep, it's treason. And it's not just one guy.

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[–] [email protected] 207 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Someone should invade Rubio's house and demand the deed to one of his rooms before they'll leave.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Why would Ukraine be negotiating with another adversary? That’s like a boxer going to the wrong corner after the round, that guy also wants you to get your ass kicked.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 hours ago

Because they're losing and a part of losing in a war is making concessions to the winner.

If Ukraine didn't make concessions for a peace deal, Russia will just continue winning the war and Ukrainians will have even less.

[–] [email protected] 119 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

FUCK YOU LITTLE MARCO

shithead.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Has he proved his citizenship?

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[–] [email protected] 101 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

"Turns out, Russia doesn't want to concede anything and demanded more Ukrainian land. Well, we tried. Clearly, it's high time for Ukraine to stop getting in the way of peace."

  • Little Marco in a week
[–] CobraChicken3000 5 points 11 hours ago

"we've tried nothing and we're already out of ideas"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

His mom must cede territory in any piece deal

[–] [email protected] 17 points 16 hours ago

they are ok with ceding Texas...

[–] [email protected] 65 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

At the rate we're going, I wouldn't be surprised if trump drops all sanctions against Russia, and starts even funding them and providing them US weapons and Intel. I just wouldn't be surprised.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

I would assume they're getting the Intel already. The entire administration is comprised of Russian assets and useful idiots. Even if the info isn't being handed to them directly, all the existing security is being ripped to shreds and the teams that would counter any threats have officially been told to ignore Russia completely.

That said, I wouldn’t put it past Trump to publicly give Intel to Russia, but only because he's an idiot and assuming there is a low he won't sink to his always a losing bet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

Tulsi probably hitting Putin with "u up ;)"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I wouldn't be surprised if we're already in a slow rollout for him to go public with support for Russia. The deal could be that Russia and US split Ukraine in some way, whether it stays as "Ukraine" with installed leadership or blatantly annexed.

The problem is the maga cult and the Republicans in congress who would support it. The maga masses will lap up whatever propaganda they're fed like puppies and a bowl of peanut butter. But what the fuck are the Republican leadership thinking? At that point the US has fallen, but maybe it already has and we just don't know yet. But maybe not... time will tell.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago

Trump wants russia blessing when the US invades Greenland.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

I'd say it's a given at this point.

Trump has offended pretty much all of our major trade partners, so we need a new market to sell US goods as well as replace our imports. As it just so happens, Russia desperately needs goods due to the sanctions and has a reduced manufacturing capacity as a result of marching all their young (and not so young) men into a meat grinder. And even though Putin is a backstabbing, murderous, KGB thug Trump knows that he won't touch him, because Trump's just too useful of a flunky.

Granted it's a morally repugnant move, but when has that ever stopped Trump?

[–] [email protected] 54 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

Likely true if we're being real but... You don't say that outloud you incompetent fucking negotiator.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 20 hours ago (5 children)

Ukraine is winning. That's why Trump has stopped supporting them on request from Putin.

If your news isn't telling you Ukraine are currently stronger on the battlefield, change news outlets.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Russia is collapsing - this war is absolutely draining their economy. The questions are whether Ukraine could keep that momentum if the US suddenly cuts off communication media and whether continuing a war to a victorious position is worth the cost to Ukrainians. I'm not there, I don't get any input on the decision, but I'm absolutely understanding of my Ukrainian coworker that fled the country and wouldn't ill judge Ukraine seeking an earlier peace in exchange for concessions.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 18 hours ago

51% of respondents in December 2024 said that Ukraine should not give up any of its territories "under no circumstances... even if this would prolong the war and threaten the preservation of independence."

https://kyivindependent.com/38-percent-ukrainians-territorial-concessions/

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[–] Nomecks 19 points 20 hours ago

He's a negotiator in the same way the drive thru person at McDonalds is a negotiator.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 21 hours ago

negotiator

I don't believe that Rubio has earned that distinction in the slightest, even in a derogatory manner. In fact, I am pretty sure that he has only ever once walked onto a used car lot and that resulted in only two things happening. One, learning that he ought not walk onto a used car lot. And two, the true value of a high mileage Jeep.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

What a massive piece of shit

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

Gotta give him credit for being a consistent illegal occupation supporter.

He's treating Ukrainians now the same way he was treating Palestinians. Just cede occupied land to aggressors.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 20 hours ago

Not one inch.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 20 hours ago

The US just decided that they're not part of the negotiations anymore

[–] rxbudian 3 points 15 hours ago

Cede 1 acre of swampland between Crimea and the mainland, somewhere in the middle of it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 20 hours ago

“Let’s blow up the post war consensus and fuel everyone getting bombs.” This ain’t the way I thought we’d solve climate change, but making the human race extinct with nukes is certainly a way to avoid making them extinct through climate collapse.

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