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- europeanfederalists
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- europeanfederalists
There is “no military solution” to the conflict in Ukraine, US secretary of state Marco Rubio has said ahead of high-stakes meetings on Tuesday in Saudi Arabia aimed at repairing a severely damaged relationship that has left embattled Kyiv without Washington’s support.
Ukraine’s delegation, led by Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, will meet Rubio, and other senior White House officials on what is seen as neutral ground in the Saudi city of Jeddah.
Ukraine’s position in the talks would be “fully constructive”, said Zelenskyy, its president, on Monday, adding that he hoped for practical outcomes from the negotiations on ending the Russian war in his country.
On his way to Jeddah, Rubio stressed the need to gauge Kyiv’s readiness to make concessions to reach peace.
He told reporters on the plane: “The most important thing that we have to leave here with is a strong sense that Ukraine is prepared to do difficult things, like the Russians are going to have to do difficult things, to end this conflict or at least pause it in some way, shape or form.
“I think both sides need to come to an understanding that there’s no military solution to this situation.
“The Russians can’t conquer all of Ukraine, and obviously it’ll be very difficult for Ukraine in any reasonable time period to sort of force the Russians back all the way to where they were in 2014.”
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Rubio supports the idea that if you conquer territory, your international adversaries should allow you to keep it. Go figure.
- there’s no way to dispossess Russia of that land without the US or various European states heading over and engaging in a brutal war
- there’s a pretty valid casus belli due to the background
If you feel so strongly about this, though, you can go sign up and fight it out. The Ukrainian military has received billions & billions in support and may continue to receive that amount.
Someone has to make Russia submit to get what you want. Why not you?
If we look at the times in recent history when a much larger country has invaded a much smaller one, Afghanistan (twice), Vietnam, Korea, and the Winter War, the conflict hasn’t ended in military defeat, it has ended when the larger country has decided they have lost enough and retreated.
The war in Ukraine will hopefully end the same way, with Russia deciding the loss to their economy is too great.
