The war in the Ukraine is in its third year. While a lot of progress in peace talks was made in the last 100 days under the auspices of the Donald J. Trump US administration, we’ve apparently come to the point where the initiative must now be seized by the Russian and Ukrainian warring parties.
For weeks now, we have been hearing from Trump and his top cabinet members that, because of the lack of tangible progress by the two sides in the peace process, the US may be about to leave the position of a mediator in the negotiations.
It seems that this day has arrived.
First, Marco Rubio told Fox News that progress between Russia and Ukraine was ‘not fast enough.
Then, VP JD Vance told the same Fox News that the Ukraine war is ‘not going to end any time soon’, in a rare admission of the difficulties that the peace process is facing.
Sky News reported:
“Russia and Ukraine are getting closer to a peace deal but not fast enough, the US’s top diplomat has said.
Marco Rubio repeated that Washington was ready to step aside and stop pursuing peace should a deal not materialize – a threat he’s made several times in the past week.
‘I think we know where Ukraine is, and we know where Russia is right now… they’re closer, but they’re still far apart’, he said during an interview on Fox News.
But vice president JD Vance told the same network that he didn’t see a quick end to the conflict.
‘It’s not going anywhere… it’s not going to end any time soon’, Vance said.”
Hellbound and Down 