Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the U.S. won’t add new sanctions on Russia
The post Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the U.S. won’t add new sanctions on Russia appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Marco Rubio, speaking from the NATO summit in The Hague on Tuesday, told European leaders straight up that the United States is not going to throw new sanctions at Russia just because Europe wants it. In an interview with Politico’s Dasha Burns, Marco said President Donald Trump still wants to leave space for talks with Vladimir Putin, and punishing Moscow right now would destroy any shot at a negotiated peace deal with Ukraine. “If we did what everybody here wants us to do, and that is come in and crush them with more sanctions, we probably lose our ability to talk to them about the ceasefire, and then who’s talking to them?” Marco said. That answer came hours before Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian president, and several European heads of state were expected to personally urge Trump to ramp up economic pressure on Russia. But Trump clearly has no intention of letting Europe dictate U.S. foreign policy, especially when it has to do with his favorite man on the continent, Mr. Vlad Putin. His team is instead focused on keeping lines to the Kremlin open, even though Russia’s military is still pushing deep into Ukraine. Marco said Trump is working with Congress to make sure he’s got enough flexibility to act, but added that once new sanctions are triggered, the talks are done. “If he does it, you’re almost admitting that this is not going to be negotiated anytime soon,” Marco told Dasha. Rubio says battlefield goals are replacing diplomacy As peace talks stall, Marco believes Russia is aiming to win by force what it couldn’t secure in negotiations. “Our sense of it is that the Russians are going to try to achieve in the battlefield what they’ve demanded at the negotiating table, which is certain territories [maintain] their administrative lines…
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Marco Rubio, speaking from the NATO summit in The Hague on Tuesday, told European leaders straight up that the United States is not going to throw new sanctions at Russia just because Europe wants it. In an interview with Politico’s Dasha Burns, Marco said President Donald Trump still wants to leave space for talks with Vladimir Putin, and punishing Moscow right now would destroy any shot at a negotiated peace deal with Ukraine. “If we did what everybody here wants us to do, and that is come in and crush them with more sanctions, we probably lose our ability to talk to them about the ceasefire, and then who’s talking to them?” Marco said. That answer came hours before Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian president, and several European heads of state were expected to personally urge Trump to ramp up economic pressure on Russia. But Trump clearly has no intention of letting Europe dictate U.S. foreign policy, especially when it has to do with his favorite man on the continent, Mr. Vlad Putin. His team is instead focused on keeping lines to the Kremlin open, even though Russia’s military is still pushing deep into Ukraine. Marco said Trump is working with Congress to make sure he’s got enough flexibility to act, but added that once new sanctions are triggered, the talks are done. “If he does it, you’re almost admitting that this is not going to be negotiated anytime soon,” Marco told Dasha. Rubio says battlefield goals are replacing diplomacy As peace talks stall, Marco believes Russia is aiming to win by force what it couldn’t secure in negotiations. “Our sense of it is that the Russians are going to try to achieve in the battlefield what they’ve demanded at the negotiating table, which is certain territories [maintain] their administrative lines…
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