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The Trump administration has issued its starkest warning yet on the future of U.S. involvement in the Ukraine-Russia conflict, declaring it will pull out of peace negotiations entirely if clear progress is not made within days.
President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio dropped the hammer Friday, making it clear: America is done playing global babysitter.
Speaking to reporters, Trump made it clear that his patience is wearing thin with the endless back-and-forth between Kyiv and Moscow.
“Now, if for some reason, one of the two parties makes it very difficult, we’re just going to say you’re foolish. You are fools, you horrible people,” Trump said. “And we’re going to just take a pass. But hopefully, we won’t have to do that.”
Speaking from Paris, where recent negotiations between U.S., Ukrainian, and European officials attempted to outline a roadmap to peace, Secretary Rubio warned that if both countries continue to stall, the U.S. will “take a pass”—and rightly so.
Marco Rubio:
“I think it’s important to remind everybody that the Ukraine war is a terrible thing, but it’s not our war. We didn’t start it. The United States has been helping Ukraine over the last three years, and we want it to end—but it’s not our war. I wanted everyone to understand that.
The reason why I make that point is the President has spent 87 days, at the highest level of his government, repeatedly taking efforts to bring this war to an end. We are now reaching a point where we need to decide and determine whether this is even possible or not, which is why we’re engaging both sides.
As you know, Ambassador Woodkopf has had not one, not two, but three meetings with Vladimir Putin to determine the Russian perspective on this and understand what it would take for them to end it. General Kellogg, myself, and others have had repeated engagements with the Ukrainians.
So, we came here yesterday to begin to talk about more specific outlines of what it might take to end the war—to try to figure out very soon, and I’m talking about a matter of days, not a matter of weeks, whether or not this is a war that can be ended.
If it can, we’re prepared to do whatever we can to facilitate that and make sure that it happens—that it ends in a durable and just way.
If it’s not possible—if we’re so far apart that this is not going to happen—then I think the President is probably at a point where he’s going to say, “Well, we’re done. We’ll do what we can on the margins. We’ll be ready to help whenever you’re ready to have these [talks].”
But we’re not going to continue with this endeavor for weeks and months on end. We need to determine very quickly now—and I’m talking about a matter of days—whether or not this is doable over the next few weeks. If it is, we’re in. If it’s not, then we have other priorities to focus on as well.”
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