Following a high-level meeting between US and Russian officials, the State Department said Washington and Moscow will begin taking steps to normalize the diplomatic relationship between the two superpowers. US-Russian diplomacy sank during the first Donald Trump administration, and Joe Biden cut nearly all contact with Russia after the invasion of Ukraine.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, and Middle East Envoy Steve Witkoff met with a Russian delegation led by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday. During a press conference after the meeting, Rubio said the parties agreed on four points.
“First is that we are going to work – we’re going to point our teams’ respectively to work very quickly to reestablish the functionality of our respective missions in Washington and in Moscow.” He continued, “For us to be able to continue to move down this road, we need to have diplomatic facilities that are operating and functioning normally.”
US and Russian ties have declined over the past decade. Rubio claimed that President Trump is uniquely equipped for this task. However, during his first administration, Washington significantly set back its diplomatic relationship with Russia.
Trump previously set records for sanctioning Russia and expelling Russian diplomats from the US. He destroyed two key nuclear arms control agreements with Moscow and refused to engage with the Kremlin on extending the New Start Treaty.
Lavrov said he viewed the summit as a success. “We did not just listen but heard each other, and I have reason to believe the American side has better understood our position,” Russia’s top diplomat explained.
Witkoff gave a glowing response to what was discussed during the meeting. “It was positive, upbeat, constructive, everybody [was] there to get to the right outcome, solution-based. We discussed it afterwards. We couldn’t have imagined a better result after this session. It was very, very solid,” he told the press.
Rubio went on to explain the final three points. “The second point is that we’re going to appoint a high-level team from our end to help negotiate and walk – work through the end of the conflict in Ukraine in a way that’s enduring and acceptable to all the parties engaged.” He continued, “The third point is to begin to work at a high level as well to begin to discuss and think about and examine both the geopolitical and economic cooperation that could result from an end to the conflict in Ukraine.”
The top American diplomat added, “The last thing we agreed to [is] that, while our teams are going to be working on all of this, the five of us that were here today are going to remain engaged in this process to make sure that it’s moving along in a productive way.”
While Tuesday’s talks were the first significant effort aimed at ending the war in Ukraine since April 2022, Trump’s effort to engage with Russia has been condemned by much of the political class in the West. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that he will refuse to abide by any agreement inked between the US and Russia.
According to NSA Waltz, the two sides did not set a date for a meeting between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. “But the two presidents talked about meeting and expect to meet,” he said.
When asked about American sanctions on Russia, Rubio did not commit to attempting to normalize economic ties between Washington and Moscow but indicated the embargo on Russia could be rolled back.
“Sanctions are all the result of this conflict. There are sanctions that were imposed as a result of this conflict. And so I would say to you that in order to bring an end to any conflict there has to be concessions made by all sides,” Rubio explained.
Kyle Anzalone is the opinion editor of Antiwar.com and news editor of the Libertarian Institute. He hosts The Kyle Anzalone Show and is co-host of Conflicts of Interest with Connor Freeman.
Trump has been President for less than a month. The daily slaughter of Palestinians has stopped, hostages are being freed, peace talks with Putin have started, your welcome.
Way too early to take a victory lap. Much can go wrong. Inflation is still high and food prices are going up while airplanes are going down.
Canada is not part of the US—–yet anyway.
You're comparing Trump with Biden. Biden was horrible on Gaza. But what Trump is talking about doing with Gaza is right on par with what Biden did. It's almost like they worked in tandem. The weapons are flowing and the talk of Trump putting Bibi in his place never materialized. To the contrary, Israel continues their rampage through the region and Trump doesn't say squat. And the same with Putin. Biden was horrible. So just engaging in diplomacy was a huge improvement, but again, it's just what the norm should be. We'll see what becomes of it. So, no need to say "your welcome" until there is something for people to say thank you for. And being better than Biden isn't enough.
Talking is always best. Two Super Powers potentially coming into direct military contact would not be good.
Peace is always best.
For Washington polscum, as well as NY real estate maggots, "talking" is purely instrumental, a con.
However, Russia has a list of do's by the West before there is a truce signed by all parties. Wait a minute! Ukraine is going to be a party, or will it be like Cuba after the U.S. jumped in to secure the truce between Cuba and Spain, taking Guantanamo as a military outpost. Or like the Abraham accords with out the Palestinians.
Russia
Crippling labour shortage
Crappy inflation percentage
Gifted with a 25% interest rate
Lead by a megalomaniac
Their navy is underwater
Their advances in Pokrovsk are getting hampered
Due to ukrainian drone warfare
But still winning
PM of Estonia Kaja Kallas calls out America for her fake security guarantees
https://youtu.be/t7HCKOkWUB0?si=wTJqR47pmJuGduI7
She is what a real leader looks like for Europe.
Maybe someday the Baltics and the Ukrainians will wake up and realize that they were used in a caper for fun, jobs, and profit for the select few in the west, who promptly dropped them once the grift was over? No, maybe not until too late …
As kissinger said, it's fatal to be America's friend …
Oleksii Anulia, Former prisoner of war
With no contact with his family nor hope of returning home, Oleksii's pain and despair were overwhelming.
Danielle Bell, the head of the UN's monitoring mission, says one of the key differences between the two countries' treatment of prisoners is that Russia's torture of Ukrainian captives has been widespread and systematic.
Let the great apology tour of 2025 begin.
Danielle Bell, the head of the UN's monitoring mission, says one of the key differences between the two countries' treatment of prisoners is that Russia's torture of Ukrainian captives has been widespread and systematic.
Evidence?
Fym evidence
Who cares about corersion when Genocide rages!! ??????
part of the problem
Every war has torture, rape and other assorted war crimes. And they happen on both sides.
did you miss the part
Danielle Bell, the head of the UN's monitoring mission, says one of the key differences between the two countries' treatment of prisoners is that Russia's torture of Ukrainian captives has been widespread and systematic..
. ".It's not random. It's occurring in facilities involving multiple state entities, both penitentiary services, FSB or security services and other official officers of the Russian Federation are carrying it out."
Ms Bell does not get to see both sides …
I think she sees more sides than you, certainly
No, I didn't miss that part. But I stand by what I said. Ukraine tortures, rapes and commits war crimes just like Russia. And I question the transparency of both sides when it comes to allowing access to the UN's monitoring mission.
Danielle Bell, the head of the UN's monitoring mission, says one of the key differences between the two countries' treatment of prisoners is that Russia's torture of Ukrainian captives has been widespread and systematic.
Russian commanders continue to give orders for Russian forces to execute Ukrainian prisoners of war on the frontline.
Ukrainian Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets reported on February 17 that footage shows Russian forces executing three surrendering Ukrainian POWs in an unspecified location after a Russian commander orders the soldiers to kill two of the POWs
Russia good, though!
Any credible evidence?
Probably comes from the Ghost of Kyiv.
fym
Ukraine also executes surrendering Ukrainian soldiers.
Much rarer in occurence however. I do not condone any executioning of anyone
Unbelievable development…! It would be a step by step process of normalization by both sides cautiously…!
Mr. Lavrov is surely showing optimism, in light of past US duplicity. I guess he has to.
Behind the scenes, he may be telling Putin to have caution.
When Russia is actually ready to negotiate she will be very desperate and that's when Ukraine will push her advantage topple the Putanic Kremlin regime, and retake all the territories that Russia has stolen from her
In other words, more unrealistic pipe dreams. Russia was willing to negotiate, before they invaded and shortly after. And, unfortunately, Ukraine will never get as good of a deal as they could have had.
Gee you're right
Instead of being placed under Russian occupation then, lets place them under russian occupation now instead
The deal on offer (in Apr '22) was Russia keeps Crimea (of course) and Ukraine stops bothering the ethnic Russians and re-enshrines neutrality.
The deal now is loss of Crimea and the areas lost since and neutrality.
The deal soon will be loss of Crimea, Donbass and the south all the way to Odessa and neutrality.
You see how Ukraine is always winning?
have you ever looked at a map of ukraine before?
if you have you would notice that Odessa is like 300 miles away from the current frontline and that Russia doesn't even control all of the donbass yet
Keep telling yourself that … it will ease the pain.
Ukraine would have been whole, minus Crimea, had the West allowed for continued negotiations on that initialed draft (by both sides) of the proposed peace deal in early 2022. And it would take a major war to get Crimea back.
Russia has for the past few years been settling occupied ukrainian land with native russians to physically alter the demographic makeup of the occupied territories
Russia is on israel level depravity
More than a million ukrainians have been abducted to russia and filtered in actual concentration camps for relocation across russia
Trump is blaming Ukraine for the destruction of their country
Next he'll be blaming the Palestinians for their cities being leveled by Israel
Europe is going to keep the war going. The US gets to keep it simmering on the back burner, while playing friendly with Russia and making it permissible for attacking Iran? Next China. Then finishing off Russia as the plan?
I’m seeing some comments that this is the diabolical empire plotting by tptb.
Thoughts?
Not that fast…! It would take a lot more than 4 years to achieve (if achievable) all that…!
I doubt geriatric Europe can keep anything going ,,, they have neither soldiers nor weapons left. They can only provide paper money, which is not worth much at this stage.
If the US wants to attack Iran, they always could have … Russia will not interfere, though tut-tutting the whole while, like China. The US has not attacked Iran because there is no "win" to be had there … it's a worse quagmire by orders of magnitude than Iraq was.
As for attacking China, it's just rhetoric, I think, as China can definitely defend itself. The idea is to induce China to commit its own Ukraine and attack Taiwan. I don't think the Chinese are stupid enough to fall for it, but who knows?
I agree, the Europeans do not have the funds to keep the war going, their economies are in shambles. Nor are they united enough.
Well…The US had a great hand in making that economy (ie Germany's) a shambles
True that.
Tried the same on Russia, only to make Russia stronger.
Then there is BRICS to content with , or accept it, trade with it. Win, win.
Concerns of empire subsume all else.
Everyone had their chance when the Soviet Union melted and Russia rose.
Russia wanted to become a member of the Alliance, a peaceful member. The U.S./NATO said no.
Opportunity flung to the winds.
I agree, opportunity totally lost. Clinton was the biggest f-ing imbecile in the history of international politics. If he had not f*ed it, today Russia would be a member of NATO and the EU, and America's best ally against the rise of China.
Russians saw themselves as Europeans (and still do). Russia's pivot to Asia is purely out of geopolitical necessity, not out of love. They'd much rather be BFF with Europe and America than China. But now it's too late.
europe is great
I agree, NeoConNazism (corporatist global tyranny) is still the ascendant ideology; and, from all indications, soon to be fully consolidated in the west hemisphere, … adios Liberalism.
Deep State + MIC = Chaos
Anything's possible, but I think you're giving the orange clown macabre way too much credit, I assure you he does not play 3D chess.
And anyway, "next China, then finishing off Russia" means nuclear war. Maybe I'm naive and/or a Pollyanna, but I was much more afraid of nuclear war under Biden than I am now under Trump.
If any of this is true, it wouldn’t be Trump’s plan.
I don't see Trump executing a long and complicated plan. So good luck to the planners keeping the plan on track.
His mind is a massive series of compartments, to which the keymaster (Trump) fumbles around seeking the correct door.
Hence the rambling nonsense.
BIden was the first US president since JFK established it to ignore the "hotline" which used to "sit on the Resolute Desk." Maybe it's still there, but at least somebody now has enough guts to pick it up and use it.
So far all we've got is the usual happy-talk pitch. The major pt of Ukrainian NATO, as well as Poland and Rumania was "first-strike" capability. We can't be believers until that capability is removed from Europe.
IKE created the Open Skies agreement. Trust. Verification.
NO "rockets red glare" loaded with nukes.
Was this plan hatched by the ghost of Henry Kissinger? It is difficult to imagine Trump coming up with anything that strategic.
lol. This from a few commenters and videos of what people think is actually going on behind scenes.
Yes, the ghost of Kissinger.
$100,000, 000, says Israel/U.S. will attack Iran.
This is Trump's big move to try to drive a wedge between Russia and China. Trump agrees with the NeoCons that China is the USA's main enemy, not Russia. For Trump isolating China is much more important than hurting Russia. Will Putin go along? Before 2014 Putin wanted to join NATO and was part of the US-led anti-China global project until Russia got kicked out of the G8 after Putin annexed Crimea. Only then did Putin reorient toward China, BRICS and the Global South. Putin's priority has always been to restore the Russian/Soviet sphere of influence and to make Russia a great superpower again, especially in Eur-Asia and sub-Sahara Africa. Trump believes Putin's project could play into Trump's grand design to bring down China and possibly flip BRICS into part of a revitalized US dominated world order.
Putin has to be disappointed by China's lack of support for his Ukrainian aggression. At the UN China votes against sanctions but China never voted with Russia on any of the resolutions condemning the Russian invasion. China abstained on those and even voted for a UN resolution opposed by Russia that recognized ""the aggression by the Russian Federation against Ukraine." https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2023/05/02/china-and-india-vote-for-un-resolution-with-a-reference-to-russias-aggression-against-ukra
More importantly, China forced Putin to turn to North Korea and Iran for weapons and now manpower because China refused to get involved in Putin's war. China consistently emphasizes that the first point of its peace proposal for Ukraine is respect for territorial integrity and self determination. China never recognized Russia's annexation of Crimea or the four "land bridge" oblasts Putin also claims to have annexed. That can't sit well with Putin and Trump knows it. In Trump's mind Trump and Putin have more in common than Putin and Xi.
The stakes are high for Trump. High enough to risk US/NATO relations and to consider dumping Ukraine. The next move is Putin's. Will he change sides again as he did in 2014? Will Putin abandon China for a partnership with the USA? We may soon see whether Putin is committed to solidarity with China and the Global South or resurrecting the Russian empire. Stay tuned.
Trump pipe dreams and the diabolical Zionist Genocidal monsters killing women & children deram nightmare. But does Putin seem like the type of leader to be scammed…????
Putin is a pragmatist, not an idealist. He won't be scammed. But Trump is offering Putin a strategic partnership in return for Russia rejoining the US led anti-China world order or at least adopting a neutral stance on the US attempt to contain China. The next few weeks and months will be a test of whether Putin remains committed to building a new multi polar world order independent of the US or decides to rejoin the US led world anti-China world order that Putin left after 2012. If Trump follows through with his stated intent of leaving European security to the Europeans, then Russia would be the dominant military power in Europe. Trump seems ready to recognize Russia's territorial acquisitions in Ukraine, which China was never willing to do. So Putin may decide that Russia's interest in rebuilding its status as a great power is better served by cooperation with the US than by an anti-US alliance with China. That is Trump's hope. And that is what Putin must now decide.
No way will Putin forget what the US and the West has done. He is too smart to turn his back on China and the East who have shown themselves predictable and reliable markets for Russian energy. They kept Russia afloat because they weren't obsessed with silly non-economic issues.
China opposes sanctions on principle. Except for that China has done nothing to support Putin’s aggression against Ukraine. China abstained on every UN resolution condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and China has not even recognized Russia’s annexation of Crimea. Chinese companies generally adhere to US sanctions against Russia and China refused to give Russia weapons or manpower which Putin had to get from Iran and North Korea instead. Trump is determined to isolate China and opened the bidding by offering Putin everything Putin wants in Ukraine. If Putin cooperates Trump is likely to up the ante by offering the reduce the US role in NATO leaving Russia the dominant military power in Europe – if Russia cooperates in isolating China. That is a lot for Putin to think about. In the next few weeks or months Putin will make a choice between continuing to support China’s global project or becoming a partner with the US and a dominant player in Europe, which is what Putin originally wanted 25 years ago.
Putin ruined the chances of getting what he wanted, ironically, the second he stepped into Crimea in 2014
Putin has no understanding of Ukrainian history, culture or politics.
Both have to work on BRICS. Of utmost seriousness.
Russia shares a border with China.
We don't.
Trump can lift the sanctions on Russia.
China can’t.
Skywalker writes many empty words of rhetoric, blue haze (to throw dust in somebody's eyes), because since 2008/2009 the formal alliance BRICS exists as an anti-alliance to G7, which Russia leads.
The rhetorically deceptively provocative, arrogant, boastful secret diplomacy of autocratic President Trump has not yet created a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, but confirms the military policy of autocratic President Putin with his internationally outlawed war of aggression against Ukraine in order to conquer and divide Ukraine contrary to public international law, sovereignty, etc. according to the motto 'divide and rule'.
http://www.brics.utoronto.ca/
https://infobrics.org/
http://www.brics-info.org/
https://bricspolicycenter.org/en/
https://www.ndb.int/about-ndb/ The New Development Bank (NDB) is a multilateral development bank established by Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS)
https://tufbrics.org/en/ BRICS Trade Union Forum
https://bricswomen.com/
https://www.nato.int/cps/ra/natohq/topics_50090.htm Relations with Russia
You can't call BRICS an "alliance." But thanks for the links. In the coming weeks and months we will see what Trump offers and how Putin responds. Trump wants detente with Russia to isolate China. Putin wants an end to sanctions on Russia. Will Putin remained committed to China's global project? Or will Trump and Putin cut a deal to give Putin what he wanted 25 years ago and an end to sanctions? Is Trump willing to scale back the US role as the principal guarantor of European security and offer to lift sanctions on Russia? Will Putin abandon China to get sanctions lifted?
Trump also wants that d*mn hotel in Moscow.
How do you define the BRICS alliance?
I am not giving in to the speculative rhetoric of secret diplomacy, because that secret diplomacy has so far failed to include conventional military or nuclear disarmament as a condition for sustainable peace in the world.
https://www.osce.org/ With 57 participating States in North America, Europe and Asia, the OSCE – the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe – is the world’s largest regional security organization.
https://www.sipri.org/ The independent resource on global security
https://www.prio.org/ The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) is a world-leading peace research organization.
Wedge will not happen.
Russia and China certainly do not trust the U.S.
China and Russia don’t trust each other.
Neither trusts the US.
But to paraphrase Tina Turner: “What’s trust got to do with it?”
Trump can lift the sanctions on Russia.
China can’t.
Normalization of relationships between two nuclear superpowers can be a nightmare only for idiots.
Ah, American "liberals," our best and brightest!
Historically, "normal" has signified MAD, the nightmare supremo.
Yeah, but MAD kept the peace and we survived the cold war. US attempts to remove the threat of MAD (land, sea and space based anti-missile defenses + decapitation missiles on Russia's and China's borders) is what risks getting us all killed.
We had "normal relations" with Russia.
The deep state, along with the MIC, does not make money on normalcy. Chaos the the game.
"Sanctions are all the result of this conflict".
He is wrong. The sanctions were the major tool in their war against Russia. They hoped, those sanctions would cripple Russian economy. It didn't worked this way. So far, they crippled only EU economy.
Russia is committing genocide in Ukraine
Ukraine is committing suicide by continuing to insist it can win.
And thats worse than genocide/
Admin, we need a poll here: how long before Zelensky is deposed. I say 6 to 8 months; it's gonna take some time for the US and Russia to negotiate something, diplomacy seldom moves fast. But if/when they do, the Green Goblin will be surplus to requirements.
And we need another poll: where he'll end up. I say in a Ukrainian jail. He's too arrogant and defiant to quit while ahead and go into exile.
I'll go with your six months, but Mai Tais in the Canaries is my guess for final destination …
Feel free to set up any polls you like.
I personally have no firm predictions on any of those subjects.
I assume the US/Russia negotiations will either collapse naturally for lack of common ground, or be more artificially/dramatically collapsed by intentional action on the part of one or more parties, and much of Zelenskyy’s future probably depends on whether he can outlast the negotiations themselves.
I'm afraid you are right, the negotiations will most likely stall or collapse for lack of common ground. Trump and Putin would need to have a heck of a love-in to save the negotiations.
But I think Zelenskyy's days in power are numbered either way. He's already managed to get on Trump's bad side.
True.
My assumption is that the only reason he remains in office and alive is that both the US and Russian regimes want it that way. Either or both could stop wanting it that way, and both are presumably capable of engineering his removal, alive or dead.
If the Azov folks feel betrayed………………….
The last sentence is what I am getting at.
Picked up in an armored carrier. Exited in a casket.
Or to admit he has been a puppet all along.
If those 9 points of the peace plan that were part of an article here from a while back were accurate, each and every point will take 6 to 8 months to reach an agreement on.
How long before Zelensky winds up in a casket.
https://russiaspivottoasia.com/russia-india-sign-off-on-defence-logistics-agreement/
Some quotes from some of my ""greatest inspirations""
"Who's to say that Ukraine will exist on the world map in two years at all?"
Dmitry Medvedev
"The Ukraine that you and I had known, within the borders that used to be, no longer exists, and will never exist again".
Maria Zakharova
"But if you don't want us to convince you, we'll kill you. We'll kill as many as necessary: one million, five million, or exterminate all of you".
Pavel Gubarev
"These are the non-humans that the Ukrainian Maidan spawned. Religion in Ukraine is replaced by them with false faith and sectarianism, and the junta itself is first replaced by them."
Vladimir Putin
But, those are the good guys, right?
NATO bad!
Russia Good!
Selective quotes stupid!
incitement to genocide, less so
I am sure Russia will be very wary of the US and the West, regardless of what the present verbiage comes from Trump. Putin will keep relations more than friendly with China and India (and Iran too) who have proved to be less fickle (irrational). As for Western Europe– their economy (Germany) is in a shambles largely because of what the US has done to their energy prices by blowing up the pipeline. This moment may force Germany to completely change its dog-like docile follow-the-Americans attitude.
Diplomacy is a necessity…
The US and Russia cannot "normalize ties" because the US is agreement incapable and cannot be trusted. Trump can't be trusted, but the US also cannot be trusted to have the next President honor anything Trump says or does.
"Normal" ties require a trust that is impossible.
However, some relations can be arranged. Expect greater than arm's length, more like at the end of a quarterstaff.
I'd expect Russia to get its money out of SWIFT, then never use it again, nor use any banks in the West ever again. They may trade in dollars, but only via Russian banks. They will liquidate T-Bills carefully to avoid losses from dumping, but won't buy any more. They won't buy British or French or German either. They won't buy holdings within reach of Western theft, not real estate nor other assets.
They may sell to us, but they won't invest much in the infrastructure to support such sales, no more pipelines. They may allow us to sell to them, but never become dependent, never allow major market power.
We have poisoned this well.
All wells.
Kissinger: to be a friend or ally of the U.S. is fatal.
”Alls we are saying, is give Peace a chance!…”
Day 1092 of Poodles 3 day special needs short bus trip to ukraine
At last! Trump just might get his Trump hotel in Moscow.
He could care about peace, saving lives. He's got to have that hotel.
Geez look at all the Democrats freaking out because of "Peace!"
lol
Unless Russia captures and incorporates Kharkov and Odessa into a separate and distinct country, nation or entity, and completely encircles Kyiv, which will essentially land lock Ukraine and, thus, force the political and economical collapse of Ukraine, Russia will have, at best, achieved a Pyrrhic victory.
Moreover, without such a military and political result, the Special Military Operation (S.M.O.) will not and cannot end.
“War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.”
― Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides,
460 B.C.E. – 400 B.C.E.
“Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.”
― Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
Socrates, 470 B.C.E. – 399 B.C.E.
dennis hanna
[ I first posted this within 30 days of the start of Russia's Special Military Operation ].
The war between Ukraine and Russia could have be avoided with a minimum of good will, if the US Biden administration would have guaranteed to the Russian government that no NATO missiles would be placed in the proximity of Russia. Such an agreement was nearly reached in December 2021, but then UK Prime minister Boris Johnson and US president Joe Biden vetoed such an agreement.
To avoid having NATO missiles on its borders, Russia invaded the Russian-speaking Ukrainian region of the Donbas in February 2022.
Remember the Missile crisis of 1962 when the US Kennedy administration was ready to go to war not have Soviet missiles in Cuba.
History seems to repeat itself.
The problem predates Biden, including W.,Clinton, Obama, Trump I.
Indeed.
Remember when Secretary of State James Baker in the George H. Bush administration promised Russia that NATO would not expand “one inch Eastward“ in 1991. However, when neocons took over US foreign policy under Clinton and George W, NATO gobbled up most of the former Soviet republics. The neocon plan was to follow Z. Brzezinski's idea that without Ukraine, Russia could not be a strong competitor to the US.
As Biden's Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said it, the provoked Ukraine-Russia war was to “weaken“ Russia.
If you notice Witkoff acts as the eyes and ears of Trump in case little Marco says something stupid.
If Trump plays his cards right, we may have the 1997 happy days economy in 2027.
Rubio is day dreaming…!
Sanction relief cannot be a bargaining chip for negotiations…!
Hopefully for US and Trump team , it is not listening with left ear and letting it go with the right ear like the previous administration…!