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Rubio announces that the US is no longer acting as an intermediary in talks between Russia and Ukraine

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  1. buzzpunk on

    Honestly about time. The US involvement in talks has been nothing but a net negative on Ukraine since the Trump administration took over.

    Hopefully this means less meddling, but I somehow doubt that.

  2. oliver253m on

    So, let me get this straight, you *didn’t* end the war in 24 hours?

    Edit: where’s Jack Bauer, when the world needs him?

  4. MoneyDirt8888 on

    This is a good news. Russia will have to deal directly with EU and Ukraine and nobody else and it is a bad news for Russia.

  6. FYNE on

    Nobody took you serious anyway, it was laughable obvious that you were the mouthpiece of pootin

  8. DragonflyFuture4638 on

    So they comfirm they’re on Russia’s side?(known since months ago)

  11. yakano61 on

    Good news for the rest of the world. Now the world can take a pro-ukrainian stance instead of a pro-Putin/Trump stance

  12. Agnikurina on

    Good news

    But why does it feel like they are scurrying away and dodging all responsibility of any damage previous “negotiations” may have caused?

  13. ISwearIAmNotASynth on

    Okay bye, nobody cares. It’s like a guy that is fired, saying “No I quit, therefore I went on my own terms”

  16. 1_g0round on

    just like the straights with its endless cycles of close to closing the deal in a day or two but without the strong arm tactic for rare earths

  18. Ben_C17 on

    Worth asking what this changes in practice. The US hasn’t been the primary mediator for most of this war Turkey hosted the initial Istanbul talks in spring 2022, and has run point on grain deals and prisoner swaps. Qatar and Saudi Arabia have also facilitated exchanges. Direct US-Russia channels existed but were mostly backchannel and rarely productive after early 2022.

    The phrasing here is vague. Is Rubio saying the US won’t facilitate direct Russia-Ukraine dialogue, or that Washington is pulling back from being a go-between for Kyiv with Moscow? If it’s the former, that’s been more symbolic than operational for over a year. If it’s the latter, it raises questions about how much coordination was actually happening versus what Ukraine was doing independently. Either way, this feels more like formalizing a reality than announcing a meaningful shift.

  21. PanTheOpticon on

    Yeah, that’s good news. All they’ve done so far was trying to pressure Ukraine into accepting pretty much every crazy demand that Russia made.

  22. YWAK98alum on

    Honestly, our official intermediation was just officious intermeddling. Better for all three countries involved if we just sit back at this point.

    If Putin wants to talk to Zelenskyy, he knows how to reach him. This isn’t like thirty-five years ago when if I wanted to make a long-distance phone call, I had to ask my parents for permission first.

  25. Own_Ad139 on

    Russia is allied to Iran in the Gulf and provides intel, drone knowledge etc. About time the US government realizes who is friend and who is foe..

  31. Extension-Bonus-2587 on

    I just saw a video on Al Jazeera of US military personnel shaking hands with Belarussia military and words to the effect that the US is somehow participating joint Russia-Belarus war games. Can anyone provide a benign reason for that? The timing of Rubio’s statement, Russia moving more tactical nukes to Belarus, and US military moves in Poland, et al, seem quite ominous to me.

  34. LorenzoSparky on

    I thought the orange clown was mates with the kremlin gremlin and could stop it in 24 hours

  35. Foodspec on

    Translation: We can’t get Zelenskyy to cede land to Russia and we’re out of ideas

  40. LewisKIII on

    Good they were never intermediaries they were on Russia’s side from the start!

  42. Mr_Gaslight on

    So much for Russia’s silly diplomatic plans for them to sign a deal with the US over Ukraine (with the idea that Ukraine will sign a deal with the US).

  43. deadshot500 on

    The clown show is out. Donald “I will stop the war in 24 hours” Trump is a moronic stain on the human race.

  44. OG365247 on

    USA has completely failed in this task. Making unrealistic demands on Ukraine and only seemingly having Russias best interests.

    You cannot send a couple of real estate investor to carry out serious diplomatic work, when millions of lives are on the line and expect a successful result.

  45. Low_Technician7346 on

    Ok fuck off piece of shit. We’ll see the US again after Nuremberg 2.0

  46. 4RCH43ON on

    Translation: 

    *Get in losers, we are going to hell.*

    The dickheads in the Trump admin mediated in bad faith on behalf of bad actor Russia and tried to bully Ukraine into submission, so it’s no surprise they should be so ineffective with their simp to strong arm diplomacy.

    Ukraine deserves better and doesn’t need the U.S. taking a dump on its sovereignty on top of Russia’s criminal ambitions.

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